ELYMNIAS. By H. Frtjhstorfer. 
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textata instead of longer striae. — lombokiana subsp. nov. represents the most eastern branch. Differs from the lombolciana. 
<$ of exclusa in a broader, almost pure white submarginal band on the hindwings. $ close to Jcamara $ from 
Java, but larger, wings rounder, underside more closely sprinkled with dull yellow. Lombok up to about 800 m. 
Always in company with casiphone praetextata. 
E. melias appears to replace Jcamara in the Philippines. Hitherto received in Europe from Luzon only, 
it is nevertheless certain, that it will yet be discovered in the southern Philippines also, especially as pellu- 
cida Fruhst. (88 a) a vicarious species, certainly inhabits North Borneo. melias Fldr. has black hair pencils melias. 
in common with pellucida and recalls to some extent Pap. palephates, Euploea swainsoni and Eup. simillima. 
$ upperside almost black with large tripartite, pure white subapical spot on the forewing. Hindwing with a se¬ 
ries of six elongate similar submarginal striae and both wings with white terminal dots. Under surface brown, 
the markings correspond with those of the upperside, only that the distal region of the hindwings between 
the snbmarginal spots and the terminal border is finely white marked. — mails Sem.p. from north eastern malls. 
Luzon, although erected as a species, is merely an aberration with longer white streaks on the hindwings. — 
Luzon. 
E. pellucida Fruhst. (88 a) approaches melias, but the forewings of the are rather narrower and pellucida. 
longer; colour black-brown with slight reddish tinge in the submedian area of the forewings. $ with 5 white 
submarginal marks in the forewings and finely divided, almost white internervular streaks, interrupted by 
black-brown longitudinal bars, on the hindwings. $ under surface but little paler than the upper whereby it 
may be distinguished from the $. North Borneo, Kina Balu, very scarce. 
E. ceryx, one of the most perfect mimics of Danaidae, hitherto only known in two Island races, but 
perhaps to be expected from the Malay Peninsula and Borneo. •— ceryx Bsd. the name-type is very similar ceryx. 
to the figured nigrita (87 d), but the forewings are ornamented with far more imposing, absolutely circular 
white spots. The black distal border very narrow in both sexes on the forewing. Upper surface of hindwings 
in $ without red tinge. Under surface in with slight red-brown shading in the submarginal area, but $ 
chiefly greenish white without distinct red gloss and both wings richly white striated in the anteterminal 
area. With it in Java appears another form, which has hitherto remained unnoticed; it is a faithfid reflection 
of Hestina mimetica Btlr. together with which it occurs. I almost suspect, that we have here a product of a 
particularly wet period, and the modification is very considerable, the wings are narrower, the distal margin 
of all wings broadly black, with only small, more oblong white submarginal spots. Hindwings with proximal 
red tinge in and $. Under surface also with melanotic appearance, the $ also with extensive red-brown 
area on the hindwings. White striation on the forewings much reduced. It may be denoted as hestinia form, hestinia. 
nov. — E. eryx so closely resembles Danaida albata Zinlc., in mode of flight and in appearance, that I repeatedly 
mistook it for a Danaid, when I saw it in the midday hours, solitary and calm, floating in clearings of the 
woods among bamboos or on the woodland paths. It is very probable, that Elyrnnias ceryx became distributed 
over Java and Sumatra when both were connected, and at a period following that of the land connection bet¬ 
ween Burma and Java. The extention of Danais albata Zink, to Sumatra, where a dark local race has recently 
been discovered, may have occurred at the same time. West Java 4000—6000 feet. I never found ceryx more 
to the east than the plateau of Pengalengan, and it is doubtful whether it occurs in the East. ■— ceryxoides ceryxoides. 
Nicev. inhabits the mountainous Sumatra at the southern end of the Tobah Lake and Batoe-Gadjah, the high 
pass between Asahan and the southern Tobah plateau. A somewhat scarce species, whose <$<$ bear a distinctly 
double hair tuft, while the $$ are distinguished by larger size and duller colouring. Comes very close to the 
javanese ceryx Bsd., but has more blue on the upper surface, corresponding to Danais tytioides Nicev. which 
flies in the same localities in the district, while ceryx is more yellow and like the javanese summer form of 
albata Zink. The °f ceryxoides vary on the upper surface of the hindwings, and are sometimes red. 
sometimes black; in the first case they recall tytioides, in the second Danais banksii Moore. The upper surface 
of the forewings also is in certain specimens almost entirely blue, in others roundish yellow spots show through 
the blue. I possess a darker aberration, corresponding to hestinia, from Padang, West Sumatra.— nigritia Fruhst. nigritia. 
(87 cl), in which, in contrast to hestinia, the red tinge on the upper surface of the hindwings is wanting. Other¬ 
wise also nigritia is less differentiated than hestinia, since the outline of the wings and the shape of the white 
submarginal spots are in no way altered on the forewings. If no further subspecies of ceryx are found in the 
specific malayan region, this Elyrnnias belongs to the few creatures entirely restricted to Sumatra and Java; 
at this moment I know among the Rhopalocera only Charaxes kadeni and Dodona fruhstorferi which are 
similarly restricted. For the rest, ceryx is perhaps the most beautiful, and to the human eye, the most elegant 
form in the long series of the species of Elyrnnias, the delicate blue of the forewings, permeated with fine 
white striations, the broad black border, in which is a series of very regular and highly plastic white spots, 
