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THE BUTTERFLIES OF BORNEO. 
74. E. NESiEA Linn, liypereides Fruhst. 37 
North Borneo, Sarawak; Sikkim and Assam south 
to the Greater Sunda Isles. 
75. E. neszea Linn, coelifrons Fruhst. 
South-east Borneo. 
76. E. pellucida Fruhst. 
N. Borneo (Mt. Kinabalu), Sarawak (Mt. Penrissen). 
77. E. harterti Honr. brookei Shelford. 
Labuan, Sarawak; Perak. 
78. E. smithi Moulton. 38 
Sarawak (Mt. Molu). 
79. E. penanga Westw. konga Gr.-Sm. 39 
North Borneo, Sarawak; Burma, Malay Peninsula, 
Sumatra. 
37 Recorded by Shelford as Elymnias lais Cr. 
38 Shelford recognized two species in Borneo : E. penanga trepsichroides 
and E. abrisa konga. According to Fruhstorfer, Distant’s male abrisa is 
really a female, and if this is the case, Fruhstorfer is probably right in 
accepting but one species, viz. penanga, which is characterized by one male 
form and three female forms. 
Fruhstorfer names the three female forms occurring in Borneo as konga 
Gr.-Sm. (typical form), mehidina Fruhst. ( trepsichroides Shelford) and 
ptychandrina Fruhst. As Shelford’s name has three years’ priority over 
mehidina, I accept it in preference to Fruhstorfer’s name. 
Of konga, Fruhstorfer writes: “The male has three subapical blue 
streaks on the upper side of the fore wing instead of five, like the other local 
forms.” Two Sarawak specimens have five streaks, five others only three. 
39 “Elymnias smithi, sp. n.— Female. —Upper side: a rough mimic of 
female Euploea diocletianus loivi. Forewing: brown-fuscous, a rusty-brown 
tinge on inner marginal area; three large confluent internervular white 
spots obliquely placed beyond cell, the lowest below the third median 
nervule, but not reaching the second median nervule. Some white scales 
about the centre of costa Hind wing : more rusty-brown than in fore wing, 
especially in the post-discal and apical region; a white patch in lower 
corner of cell, slightly extending beyond cell below, but not above, the radial 
nervure, and spreading more below median nervure from base of second and 
third median nervules to the submedian nervure. Cilia white. Under 
side: mottled fuscous relieved by white distal patch in fore wing and white 
discal patch in hind wing. A submarginal row (on the hind wing only) of 
five small black internervular spots inwardly touched with white scales. 
The hind margin of the fore wing is conspicuously scalloped as in E. nescea; 
the largest tooth-like projection between third and second median nervules. 
The hind wing also scalloped; prominent tail formed by prolongation of 
third median nervule. Exp. al. 77 mm. 
“ Type and only known specimen collected by Professor Harrison W. 
Smith on or near Mt. Molu, Sarawak, in 1912. 
“ As the male is unknown, it is impossible to assign any definite place for 
this species in the genus Elymnias. But for the fact of its being a 
Euploeine mimic instead of Danaine, I should have placed it near hyper- 
mnestra and caudata. On coloration alone I place it provisionally near 
hicetina which it resembles roughly. The tailed hind wing of course 
separates it from this Celebes species, and the white patch on the hind wing 
is nearer the base in smithi. In hicetina it is clear of the cell. The distal 
white marks of the fore wing are about half the size of those in hicetina 
{Entomologist, May 1915, p. 98, pi. vi., figs. 1, and 2. 
