ELYMNIINAE 
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ELYMNIAS 
Genus ELYMNIAS Hubner. 
Verzoichniss bekaiuiter Sehmetterliiige, j). 37, 1816. 
Antennae about half the length of costa, with clubs long, gradual and slender. Eyes smooth. Fore- 
wing with vein 11 from subcostal at about twothirds: vein 10 from subcostal near end of cell: vein G 
Fig. N. Wing venation of 
Elymnias australiana^ male. 
from aj^ex of cell close to vein 7. Ilindwing with vein 8 and vein 4 from lower apex of cell. The sex- 
mark of the male consists of a pencil of long hairs in the cell of hindxving al)ove. (Fig. N.). 
Type. FAymnias unchdaris Drury, from India. 
50. Elymnias agendas Boisduval. (New Guinea). 
oOa. E. agendas australiana Fruhstorfer. Fig. 9, 567. 
Stettiner Entomologiselio Zeitung 1899, p, 339. 
o"’. Above Forexving blue-black: a subtei’ininal band of spots, white, edged blue. Ilindwing blue- 
black: a broad discal area, xvhile edged blue: sometimes two obscnire su])tenninal ocelli in areas la aud 
2 , black: a pencil of long hairs in cell close to sul)costal, })lack. 
Beneath. Forewing dark bi’own: spots as above but not edged blue. Hindwing dark brown: 
discal area as above but not edged blue: a subtornal patcli, orange-brown: txvo large subterminal 
ocelli in areas la and 2 , black, that in area la twin-iuipilled. 
9- Above. Forexving black; a large discal area, xvitb veins black, xvhite edged blue. Hindxving black: 
a large central area reaeliing dorsum, silky wliite: a snbterminal series of three obscure blue piipilled 
ocelli, in areas la, 2 and 3, black. 
Beneath. Forexving dark broxvn: discal area as above but reaching costa and tornus. Hinchving 
dark broxvn: a hu*ge central area, xvhite: a snbtornal patch, orange-broxvn: ocelli as above but larger 
and clearer, that in area la txvin-pupilled. 
Log. Cape York 3 4 5 7 10 11 12. Claiulie B. 1. 33^^ lO 9 . 
The apex and termen of forexving are more ronnded in the male than shoxxm in figure 9: this xras 
draxvn from a defective specimen, xvhich at the time xvas the only one available. 
Subfamily AMATHUSIINAE- 
OvuH. Of greater xvidth than height: spherical: smooth. 
Larva. Cylindrical: hairy: tail forked: head l)itid: gregarious: feeds upon palms. 
Pupa. Long: boat-shaped: head xx’ith txx^o moderate hornlike processes. 
^ Imago. Of laige size, xx'ith xxdngs broad and ronnded. Forexxdng xxdth cell closed: x'eiii 10 from x*eiii 
7 xvell beyond cell. Ilindwing xvitli cell open: vein lb jiresent. 
Range, Throughout the trojiical portions of the Indo-Australian Region. 
Early .xviiters considered this subfamily’ an Oriental division of the South American MorpliinoC} 
but Stichel in his IVtonograph in the Genera Jnsectoriim (1905) treats it as a separate subfamily. Many 
ot the sjieeies emit a strong scent. In some Indian genera, vein 12 anastomoses xvith vein 11. and vein 
11 xvitli x^ein 10 ; 
