1894-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 39 



Notes upon a Small Collection of Butterflies from 

 Serra f.Sjerra>, Timor-Laut. 



By W. J. HOLLAND, Ph.D., Pittsburg, Pa. 



Through the kindness of my friend, Mr. Robert M. Grey. I 

 have been able to add to my collection a number of specimens 

 received by him from a friend who obtained them from Serra, the 

 small rocky island, which lies at the northern entrance of the 

 strait, which separates northern and southern Timor-Laut. The 

 species received are the following': Chanapa sacerdos Bud., 

 Danais hamata Macleay, Hypolimnas forbesii Bull., Precis c.\- 

 pansa Butl., Doleschallia pratipa Cram., Rhinopalpa sabina 

 Cram., Delias timorensis Boisd., Terias maroensis Butl., Belenois 

 pitys Godt., Catopsilia scylla Linn., Papilio aberrans Butl., and 

 Eidhalia ainanda Hew. 



The most of these species have been already recorded from the 

 Timor-Laut group, and the species credited to Mr. Butler were 

 described by him from the collections made by the naturalist 

 Forbes during his visit to the islands. To Mr. Butler I am under 

 obligations for having aided me in the determination of some of 

 them. The presence of Euthalia amanda Hew., in the collection 

 is very remarkable. Mr. Doherty, who has seen the specimens, 

 has expressed great surprise at the fact that the collection should 

 contain a specimen of this genus, and is inclined to think that 

 there is an error in the locality label. But all the specimens were 

 received at one time, in one parcel, all labeled in the same hand- 

 writing, and all had explicitly written upon them " Sjerra, Feb. 

 1893," in a bold and distinct hand. If the collector was correct, 

 as there is a strong presumption that he was, the discovery of 

 the genus Euthalia in Timor marks the southernmost extension 

 of the genus thus far recorded in the annals of research. As the 

 genus is not represented, so far as is at present known, in any 

 of the islands nearer Timor-Laut than Celebes, the presence in 

 Serra of E. amanda, originally described by Hewitson from 

 Borneo, is a remarkable fact in distribution. 



VOL. VI, No. 2, of " Insect Life" should be of great interest to the 

 economic entomologist, as it is almost entirely made up <>t tin- p;ip< rs 

 read at the meeting of Economic Entomologists held at Madison, Wis., 

 Aug. 14-16, 1893; the number contains 147 p iges. 



