258 NOTES FROM THE SARAWAK MUSEUM. 



385, writes : — " I have not seen this species. The sex of the 

 specimens described is not stated, and it would be hazardous 

 even to guess from the figures and descriptions what sex they 

 may be." 



With the capture of an undoubted male specimen on Mt. 

 Matang, Sarawak, at. an elevation of 3,500 feet, in March of last 

 year, I am enabled to state with absolute certainty that Distant 

 described a female, and as the male sex has never been described 

 I now append a short account of it. 



Upperside ; forewing as in the female, hind-wing with the 

 dark fuscous area much smaller, commencing as a narrow band 

 at the external angle it rapidly narrows to a thin marginal line ; 

 costal area grey ; underside rather paler than in the female. 

 The inner margin of the hind- wing just interior to the sub- 

 median nervure is shortly folded opposite the abdomen, the fold 

 containing numerous long scent-hairs. This sexual character 

 though common enough in the Nymphalidte and Papilionidse, is 

 only met with, amongst the Oriental Lyc^enidee, in the genus 

 Simiskina. The neuration of both sexes is identical. Mr. H. H. 

 Druce has already recorded this species from Borneo in a paper 

 on the Lycasnidse of the island (P. Z. S., 1895, p. C02), but his 

 specimen was a female. 



On the female of Dodona Elvira Staud. 



The male of Dodona Elvira was described bv Staudinger in 

 » Iris," Vol. IX. p. 239, pi. V, fig. 6, (1896), together with many 

 other new Bornean species. Females of this species are ex- 

 tremely rare, for though I have caught over one hundred males, 

 I have only been able to secure one female ; as that sex has 

 never been described, I do so willingly here : — Larger than male. 

 Upperside ochreous ; forewing with base broadly shaded with 

 fuscous, a black spot or costal margin continuous with a fuscous 

 discal fascia, a short line of the same colour, closing' the cell and 

 almost fused with the discal fascia. Another black spot on the 

 costal margin, continuous with a very pale fuscous fascia, apex and 

 external margin broadly bordered with black. The border 

 containing some obsolescent, ochreous, submarginal spots. Hind- 

 wing as in the male. Underside ground-colour more rufous 



