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Adamson obtained a female at ' Tavoy, in August,' which was kindly lent for 

 examination, and is referred to in his ' List of Burmese Butterflies, p. 10, ' " under the 

 name of Ehjm. Mimus. 



This is nearest allied to the Bornean Ehjm. Data, Distant (Ann. Nat. Hist. 

 1887, p. 50), the female of Bcp.dalion differing, on the upperside, from the same sex 

 of Dara, in the white band on the forewing being straighter and broader in its 

 oblique-coiu'se from the costa to posterior angle ; the band on the hindwing is also 

 broader. On the underside, Dsedalion has both bands as on upperside, and both are 

 entirely free from strigae. 



Indo-Malatan allied species of Eltmnias. — E. Frotogenia (Cramer, Pap. Exot. 

 ii. pi. 189, figs. F, G-, ? ; id. ii. pi. 25, figs. A, B, c? (1777). Horsfield, Catal. Lep. 

 E. I. C. pi. 3, fig. 24; pi. 8, fig. 8 (1829). Siin. E. Jynx, Hiibn. Zutrage Exot. 

 Schmett. figs. 37, 38, i (1818). Both sexes smaller than in the allied Indian species 

 (undularis). In the male the curved series of blue spots on forewing above are 

 generally smaller and longitudinally narrow, the underside more uniformly covered 

 throughout with strigge. Female with much broader dark-brown borders to the 

 forewing, the dark marginal band on the hindwing being obsolescent posteriorly and 

 with much smaller white spots. Expanse, <? 2i^o to 2/oj ? 2j^o to 3 inches. This 

 is nearer to the Burmese species (tinctoria) than to the Indian {undularis), both in 

 size and in the broader dark-brown borders of the upperside of the female. The Javan 

 female has the ochreous colour on both wings more intense and dusky than in either 

 tinctoria or undularis, coinciding, in this intensity of colour, with that occurring in the 

 Javan Euploeine Salatura intensa, of which the female of E. Protogenia is a mimic. 

 Habitat. Java. — E. discrepans, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 60, pi. vi. figs. 2, 3, c? ? 

 (1882). Habitat. Malay Peninsula; Penang. — E. leucocyma (Godart, Enc. Meth. 

 ix. p. 326 (1819). Described by Godart as having "absolutely the appearance and 

 shape of ' undularis,' the upperside blackish-brown, with a band of pale blue-violet 

 spots on the border of forewing, and a row of ashy points on the border of hind- 

 wing. Underside deep brown, with a multitude of small greyish waves, more 

 powdered on the hindwing than on the forewing." Habitat. Java. — -E. nigrescens. 

 Butler, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 520, pi. 42, fig. 1. Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 61, pi. 6, fi.g. 

 1, ?,pl. 9, fig. 1, ? (1882). Habitat. Malay Peninsula; Billiton ; Borneo; 

 Formosa.—^. Hecate. Butler, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 520, pi. 42, fig. 2. Habitat. 

 Labuau, Borneo. — E. congruens. Semper, Reisen Pbilippen, Lep. i. p. 61, pi. xi. figs. 

 8, 9, 10, c? ? (1886). Habitat. Mindanao.— _B. Hainana, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, 

 p. 696. Habitat. Hainan; Formosa. — E. Panthera (Fabricius, Mant. Ins. p. 39 

 (1787) ; Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 3S, pi. 2, fig. 7. Spi. M. Dusara, Hors- 

 field, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. pi. 5, fig. 7 (1829). Habitat. Java.—E. lidescens, 

 Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1867, p. 404, pi. 9, fig. 10. Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 62, 



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