102 BUTTERFLIES OF BORNEO. 



a specimen taken in Kuching follows : — g Smaller than 

 9 and darker. Upperside, dark purplish-black, fasciae 

 on both wings as in 9 but narrower and shorter and 

 with a lilac tinge. 



Underside, dark chocolate, the spot on the costal 

 margin smaller than in the 9 , fascia on the fore-wing 

 not so extended. Expanse 57 mm. 



The species is confined to Borneo. E. daedalion, de 

 Nice>. from Burma is possibly a sub-species. Both dara 

 and daedalion belong to Moore's sub-genus Melynias, 

 not to his genus Elymnias as erroneously stated in Lep. 

 Ind. vol. IT, p. 154, 155. 



70. Elymnias brookei, sp. n. 



<$ . The outer margins of both wings are scalloped ; 

 the outer margin of the forewing is produced in the first 

 median interspace into a slight lobe ; the outer margin 

 of the hind-wing is produced at the third median nervule 

 to form a short tail. No modified scales on upperside 

 of forewing ; androconia on upperside of forewing as in 

 E. nigrescens, Butl. Upperside : black, on the forewing 

 a sub-apical macular fascia, a few indistinct stria} on 

 the costa and an indistinct spot at external angle, blue- 

 green ; on the hind-wing an indistinct marginal series 

 of blue-green spots. Underside : ground-colour fuscous 

 mottled with dark fuscous, paler along costal margin and 

 apex of forewing and at base of hind-wing, on the hind- 

 wing a sub-marginal series of degenerate ocelli, six in 

 number, black with white centres, the fourth and fifth 

 the largest, the sixth very minute. Cilia on forewing 

 fuscous, on hind-wing fuscous and white alternately, 

 A ntennce reddish ochreous. Expanse 70 mm. Habitat, 

 Kuching, Sarawak (July). 9 Unknown. Caught in a 

 trap baited with rotten bananas. In colouration the 

 species approaches E. esaca Westw. but the shape of the 

 wings is exactly like that in E. panthera Fab. Type in 

 the Sarawak Museum. The species is named after His 

 Highness the Rajah of Sarawak, G. C. M. G. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



