ELYMNIAS. By H. Fruhstorfer. 
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blue tint. The lower surface recalls mimalon <$, but the wings are darker brown and less distinctly checke¬ 
red with white; only the submarginal spots on the hindwings are very much larger, thyone $ might be a mimic 
of Salpinx viola, which it recalls in the large white markings. Expanse 44 mm as against 48 of mimalon 5. 
The antennae are reddish yellow and white ringed, apically pale yellow. The scape is brown red before the 
apex. The palpi are black beneath, laterally yellowish. The upper part of the whole body is brown, the 
lower is analogous to the colour of the wings. The legs are grey brown.” Minahassa, North Celebes, 1 $ Koll. 
Fruhstorfer. Probably the $ of a dry season form. — nysa Fruhst. $$ from East Celebes differ from those ny.sa. 
from Minahassa in the uniform brown upper surface of the forewings, the violet subapical bar, present in mima¬ 
lon and leucostigma, is wanting. Hindwings with 5- 6 small white spots on both sides. Tombugu, East Cele¬ 
bes. South Celebes, mentioned by me in the original diagnosis, is incorrect. 
E. hicetas. <$ above somewhat similar to cumaea Fldr., from which it differs in the still more pro¬ 
nounced sexual dimorphism, the $ (89 b, c) is a deceptive mimic of Euploea eupator Hew. and Hypolimnas 
fraterna Wall, with which it flies in company. The £ can also be distinguished by a series of 3—4 white 
ocelli on the upper surface of the hindwings, which are wanting in cumaea which also has the costal triangle 
on the forewings. Among all the celebean Elymnias liicetas has the largest brand on the under surface of the 
forewings. The black distal scent tufts on the hindwings appear also to be somewhat larger, especially in hi¬ 
cetina, than in cumaea, mimalon and hewitsoni. The androconia patch consists of two parts, of which the upper 
is greatly reduced and covered by a short hair pencil. 1 observed hicetas in the malayan burial ground in Ma¬ 
cassar, where the butterflies flew in the shade of the sugar canes and bamboos in the full midday sun, but 
always keeping within the shelter of the foliage. - hicetas Heivr the name type, inhabits the western part of hicetas. 
the southern arm of Celebes, Macassar and the neighbourhood of Maros and Taneta near Pare-Pare and flies 
throughout the year. are scarce. — bonthainensis Fruhst. (89 c A, b $) is shown by its darker colouring bonthai- 
to be a typical mountain form. The is smaller than hicetas from Maros and East Celebes, without blue nensls - 
on the costal margin, and narrower, but more intensively coloured marginal band. $ the oblique bar on the 
forewings shorter and darker than in hicetas from the coast districts, and dusted with blue, the band on the 
hindwings also much reduced, much narrower and shorter, runs almost straight and only extends from the 
lower radial to near the submedian. The submarginal spots on the hindwings are wanting on both sides. The ground 
colour of the underside in the <2 A is a dark red brown in place of the grey brown of hicetas, the white spotting is ob¬ 
solete, and does not form such conspicuous bands on the upper surface. White costal spot on the underside 
of the hindwings much smaller than in hicetas, only punctiform. Bua-Kraeng, Febr. at 5000 feet. Lompa 
Battan, March, 3000 feet. — hicetina Fruhst. $$ from East Celebes larger than those from South Celebes. Lim- hicetina. 
bal margin on all wings more greenish, in place of light blue. Under surface of all wings, especially basally, 
more darkly checkered. The white spot at the apex of the cell of forewings much larger, as is also the white 
mark between the subcostal and the anterior radial of the hindwings. $ much larger than the specimens from 
South Celebes; the white band on all wings broader, the white submarginal spots on the hindwings smaller than 
in hicetas. East Celebes, Tombugu. — butona Fruhst. differs from hicetas as follows; Framing of wings butona. 
paler, bounded by dark olive green, in place of bluish white on the costal margin, with almost obsolete submar¬ 
ginal spots. Finder surface; pale grey, instead of blackish or red-brown. All wings more richly white 
checkered, especially basally. Costal spot in hindwings larger than even in hicetina $. Expanse 44 as against 
40—42 in hicetas. North Buton. 1 $ in January, taken by H. Kuhn. 
E. hewitsoni Wall. (89 b), the commonest Elymnias of the south Celebes, is met with by the collector in the hewitsoni. 
gardens of Macassar, and. as Martin says, may even enter the houses. In October 1906 a fertile $ visited a cripp¬ 
led, dwarfed arenga palm, planted in a pot, and used to ornament a covered verandah in the house; From 
his seat Dr. Martin was able to watch the deposition of the eggs, and subsequently the emergence of the larvae, 
their growth and pupation, and on 14—15 November obtained a series of rather small imagines. The pupa 
was extremely like that of nigrescens Btlr. from Sumatra. The same shape, the same green colour with red 
streaks, so that the pupa of hewitsoni would join on directly to the undularis group, hewitsoni has the largest 
roundish submarginal spots of all the celebean species; they are especially conspicuous on the upper surface, 
bluish tinged in the S, pale violet ringed in the $. Under surface in both sexes more richly white marked than 
in hicetas. Two types of the can be separated, 1. those with 3 white subapical spots on the forewings and 
large round, white, blue ringed ocelli on the hindwings (August to September, November, Maros and Sa- 
manga. 2. without the spots on the forewings and with reduced ocelli. (March, Macassar). — sumptuosa sumptuosa. 
Fruhst. is a dry season form; both sexes with pale subapical region of the forewings; ocelli on hindwings broadly 
white diffused. The $ has all the wings extensively white bordered. Taneta, south from Pare-Pare. hewit¬ 
soni flies throughout the year in and around Macassar, but specimens collected in all months yielded no sea¬ 
sonal differences. There are certainly in South Celebes transition forms to forma sumptuosa as described from 
Taneta, and $$ with very large, broad ocelli on the hindwings and the 2$ with white costa and broader. 
