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of being concolorous with the rest of the wing, as in E. penanga [mehida] ; in the 

 forewing [in the type] having four instead of five spots, owing to the posterior one 

 being absent; in the two anterior spots being shorter, wider, and conjoined instead 

 of well separated ; in the hindwing being entirely unglossed with blue, whereas in 

 E. penanga [mehida] it is strongly blue-glossed ; in the markings of the underside of 

 both wings being more variegated, and in the presence [in the type] of the large 

 ochreous subcostal spot of the hindwing" (de Niceville, I. c). 



Distribution. — " The type specimens were captured by the Rev. W. A. 

 Hamilton's native collectors at Ohelapunji, at the foot of the Khasia hills, on the 

 Silhet side, at nearly sea-level " (de N. /. c.) A single male, taken by Major 0. 

 H. B. Adamson, on April 23rd, 1880, in Upper Tenasserim on the road to the Siam 

 frontier, which is evidently of the same species, has five blue elongated spots on 

 the forewing above, and on the underside the ochreous subcostal spot is absent, this 

 spot being also either absent or present in the male of the allied Malay species, 

 B. penanga. Mr. H, J. Elwes (P. Z. S. 1891, 269) records a single specimen from 

 the low country of Bast Pegu, taken by Mr. "W. Doherty. 



Both this species, and penanga, are mimics of the Euploeine butterfly 

 Calliplcea Ledereri.* 



Of the illustrations of this species on our Plate 141, fig. 3 is a reproduction 

 of M. de Niceville's figure of the type, and fig. 3a is from the Burmese specimen 

 taken by Major Adamson. 



Indo-Malatan species op Bruasa. — B. Penanga (Melanitis Penanga, Westwood, 

 Gen. D. Lep. p. 405, ? (1851). Habitat. Penang. — B. Mehida (Elymnias Mehida, 

 Hewitson, Exot. Butt. iii. Mel. pi. figs. 2, 3, c? (1863). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 

 6S, pi. 7, fig. 6, c? ; pi. 6, fig. 11, ? (1882). Babitat. Malacca. Singapore.— 5. 

 Sumatrana (Blymnias Sumatrana Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1869, p. 325, ? . 

 Hewitson, Exot. Butt. iii. Mel. pi. figs. 1, 4, ? (1863). Habitat. Sumatra.— 5. 

 Abrisa (Elymnias Abrisa, Distant, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1886, p. 531 ; Rhop. Malayana, 

 p. 421, pi. 43, fig. 5, c? (1886). Habitat. Malay Peninsula. — B. Borneensis (Elym- 

 nias Borneensis ; Grose-Smith, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1892, p. 428). Habitat. N.-E. 

 Borneo. — B. Konga (Blymnias Konga, Grose-Smith, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1889, p. 317). 

 Habitat. Kina Balu, N. Borneo. 



Genus MIMADELIAS. 



Wings shorter, broader, and more regularly triangular than in Elymnias. Fore- 

 tving with the costa arched, apex rounded, exterior margin oblique and slightly 

 scalloped ; posterior margin slightly convex, the middle portion hemg folded over on to 



* See vol. i. plate 36, tigs. ], la. 



