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cinerescent-brown, traversed by six saboval black ocelli, the first upper and the fifth 

 lai'ge, the others much smaller, and sometimes the third is obsolete, and the two last 

 are geminated, the first and fifth with a violet- white speckled oval pupil, the others 

 with a slender pupil, the fifth and the geminated anal pair also having a slightly- 

 defined pale-ochreous outer ring ; below the costal border is another but more 

 prominent white pupilled black spot. 



Female. Upperside much lighter brown, with the marginal paler cinerescent- 

 brown band broader. Forewing with some pale strigge along base of the costa. 

 Hindicing with three lower submarginal dusky-black ocelli, as on underside, apparent. 

 Underside paler, with the dark chestnut-brown strigse less confluent and permit- 

 ting more of the ground colour to be seen ; the subcostal white-pupilled ocellus 

 on hindwing larger, and with a more diffused black border, the upper submarginal 

 ocellus with a rudimentary white pupil. 



Expanse, S 2^(i, ? 2n) inches. 



Habitat. — Nicobar Islands ; Nias Island. 



This species, " in all probability, mimics the Euploeine butterfly, Crastia Camorta, 

 a species which abounds in all the islands of the Nicobars " (Butt. Ind. 272). 



Distribution. — Specimens have been received in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 

 from Mr. F. de Roepstorff, taken in Kar Nicobar, Pulo Koudul, Great Nicobar, 

 Kamorta, Trinkutt, Teressa, and Katschall" (Butt. Ind. 272). 



The type of E. dolorosa is described by Mr. A. G. Butler from Nias Island, 

 Sumatra. 



Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 136, figs. 2, a, b, are from 

 the type specimens named mimus by Mr. Wood-Mason, which have been kindly 

 lent for this purpose. 



ELYMNIAS OBNTJBILA (Plate 137, figs. 1, la, b.^J ? ). 



Elymnias olnuhila, Marshall and de NiceVille, Batt. of India, etc. i. p. 272 (1883). Moore, Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, p. 33, pi. 3, fig. 2, ^. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark Ai-elvety chestnut-brown, glossed with violet in 

 certain lights ; Forewing with a much paler chestnut-red excurved outer band ; iio 

 glandular patch. Hindwing with a similar pale chestnut-red outer band, the glandular 

 tuft brown. Underside numerously covered with dark chestnut-red strigas, and 

 intervening lilacine grey strigce, which are most densely packed and broadest on the 

 basal area, and are more slender on the outer half, the costal patch on foz'ewing, and 

 the submarginal areas being most densely covered with the lilacine grey striga;. 

 Hindwing with a submarginal series of six small black spots with silvery-white 

 pupils, and a larger-pupilled subcostal spot. 



Female larger ; paler. Upperside with the pale marginal band much wider, 



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