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6. ELYMNIAS {Melynias) DOHRNII, n. sp., PL S, Fig. 12, $. 

 Habitat : Bohorok, East Sumatra. 

 Expanse : $^?>'l inches. 



Description : Male. Uppersidb, forewing black, strongly glossed 

 with purple in some lights ; a very irregular discal series of seven spots, 

 the anteriormost in the subcostal interspace is rich powdery purple and 

 forms a streak reaching the outer margin, the second in the upper 

 discoidal interspace is also purple, but is much shorter than the streak 

 above it and does not reach the outer margin, the third in the lower 

 discoidal interspace is purple and is shorter again than the spot above 

 it, the fourth is a short white streak placed in the middle of the second 

 median interspace, the fifth is a small round white spot in the middle 

 of the first median interspace, the sixth and seventh spots are placed 

 outwardly obliquely one above the other in the submedian interspace 

 towards the outer margin, and are out of line with the rest, being closer 

 to the outer margin than they. Hindwing with an outer-discal series of 

 seven nearly equal-sized small round pure white spots, one in each intern- 

 space except the submedian, which has two ; the outer margin mottled 

 with white, with two small quadrangular white spots on the margin in 

 each interspace. Underside^ both loings piceous. Forewing with the 

 basal half of the costa barred with white; the margin at the apex of the 

 wing also slightly sprinkled with white ; the five posterior spots of the 

 discal series of the upperside present and pure white ; the inner 

 margin towards the base broadly pale and highly polished. Hindwing 

 with a few scattered white dots at the base and along the abdominal 

 margin ; otherwise as on the upperside. 



Allied to E. patna, Westwood, from Kumaon, Sikkim, Assam, and 

 the Karen Hills of Burma, from which it differs in the forewing being 

 longer and narrower, the outer margin more entire, the purple 

 streaks on the upperside smaller and fewer in number, being reduced 

 posteriorly to small white spots ; the hindwing is much smaller, the 

 outer margin almost entire instead of being strongly indented, and 

 the outer margin on the upperside being sprinkled with whitish. On 

 the underside of the forewing the disposition of the white spots is 

 quite different, in D, patna the spots are parallel to the outer margin 

 throughout, in E. dolirnii the uppermost spot of the first three is 



