NEW AND LITTLE-KNOWN LEPIDOPTERA OF THE 

 PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 



By W. SCHULTZB. 



{From the Entomological (Section, Biological Laboratory, Bureau of Science, 



Manila, P. I.) 



KHOPHALOCEKA. 

 NYMPHALID^. 



ELYMlSriINiE. 

 ELYMNIAS, Hiibn., Verz. bek. Schmetterl. (1816), 37. 



Elymnias palmifolia sp. nov. (PI. I, fig. 1). 



(?, fore wing, dark brown with a decided blue iridescence. A large, 

 subapical, white spot, divided into 3 parts by the veins. An elongated 

 streak between first and second median veins, slight traces of two other 

 elongated submarginal streaks. Hind wing; pale brown near costal and 

 inner margins, darker towards the outer margin. Between the veins, 

 7 yellowish-white stripes, of which there are 2 between median veins I 

 and II. These stripes run nearly to the base of the wing where they 

 sufEuse with the general color, but they are very pronounced towards the 

 margin. Near the outer margin, slight traces of light, wavy S230ts, shin- 

 ing through from the under side. Marginal series of interrupted, 

 crescent-shaped, white spots in pairs between veins and confluent with 

 cilia. Under side of wings lighter; spots corresponding as to position, 

 but differing in size from those above. Posterior to the subapical spot, 

 a very small white one, the streak between median veins, I and II larger 

 than above. Between submedian and first median veins, a broad, whitish 

 streak having a darker one through its middle and showing traces above. 

 On the hind wing the stripes are shorter than above. On the marginal 

 area many irregular, transverse, wavy spots. 



Length of wing, (? : 39 millimeters. 



Length of wing, ? : unl-cnown. 



TugTiegarao, Cagayan, P. I. 



Time of capture: July, 1905. (Warren Williamson, collector.) 



Type c?. No. 4604, in Entomological Collection, Bureau of Science, 



Manila, P. I. 



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