BUTTERFLIES OF BORNEO. 103 



71. Elymnias lais Cram. 



Papilio lais. Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii, pi. 114, f. A,B. (1779). 



Occurs in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Billiton, 

 Java and Borneo, with a sub-species in the Indian 

 region. 



[For an account of the habits of this mimetic species 

 see P.Z.S. 1902, p. 259.] 



72. Elymnias pellucida, Fruhst. 



Elymnias pellucida Fruhst. Ent. Xach. xxi (1895 No. 11 

 p. 1) 9 



Elymnias aroa, Shelford, P.Z.S., 1902, p. 273. 6 & 9 

 The species is most closely related to kumara, Moore : 



it has been found on Mt. Penrisen, Sarawak, and Kina 



Balu, N. Borneo. 



Messrs. Pryer & Cator record Elymnias annea n. sp. 



from Sandakan, but give no description of it whatever! 



It may possibly be the same as E. pellucida, Fruhst. 



73. Elymnias penanga, Westwood. 



Melantis penanga, Westwood, Gen. D. Lep, p. 405 9 



(1851). 

 Sub-sp. E. penanga trepsichroides, nom. nov. 

 (Elymnias borneensis, Grose-Smith. A.M.N.H. 1892. p. 



428.) 

 There has been much confusion over this species — or 

 sub-species as I prefer to call it. In 1869 Dr. Wallace 

 described (Trans. Ent. Soc. London p. 324.) a female 

 Elymnias from Borneo as E. borneensis. This species 

 belongs to Moore's sub-genus Mimadelias and is a Pierine 

 mimic. In 1887 Staudinger figured (Exot. Scbmett. 

 pi. 86) what he supposed to be the male of this 

 species, but Fruhstorfer in 1899 (Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. 

 Bd. xliv p. 57) rightly points out that this is the figure 

 of a female, however he then states that the male of 

 E. borneensis* Wall, is "ganz blau und gehbrt mit Mehida 1 

 Ilew. und Sumatrana, Wall, zusammen in erne andere 



R. A. Soc, No 41, 1904. 



