I think JIRA takes into account all issues without story points in the epic, including already closed ones (it can be either fixed issue or closed as Duplicate...).
So when JIRA says (31 of 261), but you see just 18 unestimated issues, I think there are 13 ones which has already been closed without estimation.
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