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62. *Melanitis constantia, Cramer. 

 Sambawa, Sumba (Doherty). 



Subfamily ElymniiNjE. 



63. Eltmntas protogenia, Cramer. 



Bali, Samba wa (Doherty), Sumba (Pagenstecher), Bali (Fruhstorfer 

 as E. protogenia baliensis, Fruhstorfer). Doherty records this species 

 from Sambawa as E. undularis, Drury, and says that no Elymnias is 

 known from Sumba (but Dr. Pagenstecher has since recorded it from 

 thence as E. undularis) or Timor (but in de Niceville's collection is an 

 Elymnias from Timor received from Dr. Staudinger with the MS. 

 name E. undularis, var. timorensis). E. protogenia was originally des- 

 cribed from Java, and differs but slightly from the E. undularis of 

 Drury, which has precedence. Mr. H. Fruhstorfer in " Societas Ento- 

 mologica," 1896, describes the Bali local race as E. protogenia baliensis, 

 but it is, as far as our specimens of both sexes show, identical with 

 typical E. protogenia. The paper in whicli this species is described is 

 simply peppered over with misprints. Dr. Staudinger has issued the 

 Sambawa form with the MS. name of E. sambawana, which has in the 

 male the outer margin of the hindwing on the upperside of a somewhat 

 deeper ferruginous colour than in typical specimens from Java and Bali, 

 but does not otherwise differ. 



64. Elymnias nigrescens, Butler. 



Bali, Lombok (Doherty), Lombok (Fruhstorfer as E. nigrescens 

 meliophila and melitophila) . The male is barely distinguishable from the 

 same sex of E. protogenia, Cramer, the female is of course abundantly 

 distinct from the same sex of that species. Even as a local race we do 

 not think that E, meliophila can stand. Our single female from Lombok 

 is brown on the upperside of the forewing with little or none of the 

 purple gloss shown in females from Perak. This brown form occurs also 

 in Sumatra with the more common purple form. 



65. Elymnias dara, Distant. 



Bali (Doherty). E. dara was described from Borneo, E. albofasciata, 

 Staudinger, from Palawan in the Philippines. The former name has 

 priority. Mr. Moore in Lep. Indica, vol. ii, p. 156, keeps them distinct, 

 but it is doubtful if specimens from the typical localities have ever 

 been compared together. They are probably one and the same species. 



66. Elymnias (Melynias) prjitextata, Fruhstorfer. 



Bali (Doherty), Lombok (Fruhstorfer). Recently described in 



