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thetis, but more probabl}' to the fact (bat palaivanica has a ? with white patches, 

 whilst they are brown in tagalica. I have seen no white females of any other 

 race. 



palawanica S is smaller than the largest tagalica, is of a rather paler copper, 

 and has very narrow black borders ; the underside is not often as dark as in 

 tagalica, and may be quite pale ; the markings are identical. 



In the absence of specimens of the female it is impossible to say whether 

 males more like palawanica than like typical tagalica belong to one form or the 

 other. 



In the Tring collection there are specimens (4) from Snla Mongola, which on 

 personal appearance one would call palaivanica without doubt, but which, looking 

 to the habitat, are almost certainly tagalica. 



The Felder specimens of tagalica include the type (Manilla) and eleven other 

 specimens — 4 cJcJ, 7 ¥ ? — from Celebes, Luzon, and Borneo. From Sumatra there 

 are 3 (? c? of a rather small form with the black border wide, with 3 ? ? ajiparently 

 belonging to them, though not collected at same time and place. From South Celebes 

 are 4 cJ cj and one very large (50 mm.) ?, and 2 iS from Dongola. From Mindoro 

 4 c?(?, 3 ? ? (46 mm.) of average appearance ; there is a fifth <S from Mindoro that 

 differs from the others only in being small (37 mm.), and which agrees very closely 

 with a specimen in the Felder collection that I take to be the type of obsoleta, 

 though it is not so marked. This Felder specimen is labelled, however, Luzon, 

 and obsoleta is said to come from Mindanao. All these localities are Philippine, 

 but of course the labelling of the supposed type of obsoleta is rather against its 

 being so. On the other hand, if this is not the type, where is it ? It agrees well 

 enough with the description, and is a very small specimen (36 mm.). Felder notes 

 that obsoleta is the smallest species of the genus that he knows, and that it is very 

 close to tagalica. The specimen is in poor condition, and is one of the most mended 

 of the Felder examples. Bnngao provides two rather small (42 mm.) c?c? of some- 

 what Palawanic facies ; 2 cJ c? from Bnngnran have rather wider borders to the 

 hiudwing than usual, and 1 ?. There is 1 c? from Manilla (much smaller than type 

 specimen), 6 tj J and 2 ? ? from Nias, 1 c? and 1 ? from Borneo. 



doherlyi nov. var., South Celebes, mimics celehensis. 



This form is referred to under celebensis and thetis, var. egena {q.v.). 



obsoleta Felder, Wieii. Ent. Moiials. 1862. p. 289 (Mindanao). 



Specimen (much mended) in Tring collection seems to agree with description. 

 It has all the appearance of being a very dwarf specimen of tagalica. Though it 

 has no label to that eifect, it is with the highest probability the type specimen of 

 C. obsoleta Felder. 



talautensis nov. var. 



There are four specimens from the Talant Islands, which I refer to tagalica as 

 a variety, though they might claim specific rank. 



They look very different from any other form of tagalica known to me, and 

 only on examining the appendages are they seen to be very close to, if not identical 

 with, that species. 



The iS has a black border very wide at the apex of the upper wing, and it 

 maintains its width down the hiudmargin much more than in tagalica, but the width 

 of the border of the hindwiug is much as in tagalica. From these margins the 



