( 513 ) 



is strtictnrally very diffoveiit from Milioni((, the n\<\n'r snbcostals uf the Ibrowinjr, 

 for instance, anastomosing- with the costal vein, wliich is not the case in MiUoniu. 



Mt/iotna (lurijktiama Thierry Mieg, Bull. Soc. Ent. France p. 44 (1897), from 

 Batjau, is nothing else bnt a specimen of M. cyunifcra Walker with an nnusnally 

 bright band. 



M. Thierry Mieg, I.e., correctly remarks, with regard to the antlior of Milionia 

 ratvakcnsis, that on p. 551 of Voijaye de Freycimt we read that " M. Godart a 

 bien voulu de'crire le petit nombre d'espi'ces nouvelles de L(!'pidopteres qne nous 

 avons rapportees." From this remark in Voy. de Fi-cye. it should follow that 

 we have to write ,1/. rau-akemis " Godart." P,nt BI. Thierry Mieg remarks further 

 that he has a plate of that work " annotee de la main de Boisduval " on which the 

 figure of M. rawakensis is designated as " C!allimorphe requin nobis,'' and concludes 

 that Boisduval has descrilied the species in question. In my copy of the Voyaye the 

 name of Boisduval is not mentioned at all, either in the text or on the plate, and I 

 really cannot see how the name of Boisduval can be brought in connection with 

 M. rawakensis. 



M 



ON THE BIRDS COLLECTED BY ME. EVERETT IN 

 SOUTH FLORES. 



Pakt I. 



By ERNST HARTERT. 



(Plate III.) 



R. ALFRED EVERETT, our indefatigable friend, has sent ns valuable 



collections from Flores. He tirst touched this island in August Ib'.Hj, 

 arriving in Endeh from Makassar, but he found there a letter from the Resident of 

 Timor, warning the " Postholder " (the highest authority in the place) that he should 

 not allow him to go into the country in that vicinity. The Postholder said that 

 there was no security outside the precincts of the village of Endeh, and that the 

 natives even fired into the place from the steep hills rising immediately behind it. 

 Under those circumstances Mr. Everett could only shoot a few common birds in the 

 village, and left at ouce for Savn, where he collected the birds described pp. 203 to 

 273 of this volume of this journal. 



In October 189(5 Mr. Everett returned to Flores again. This time he made 

 Nanga Ramau (Nanga Roma of the Admiralty chart) in South Flores his head- 

 quarters. He writes from there as follows : — 



"The country in this part of Flores, which is better known as Mangarai, is 

 verj' hilly even from the margin of the sea, and there are numerous mountains, all 

 excessively steep and difficult collecting ground, and varying in iieight near the 

 coast from 3000 to 5000 feet, whilst those farther inland named Pnchu Reah 

 and Puchu Leoh I estimated to be about 0000 feet. Below about 3000 feet the 

 land has been cleared for the cultivation of maize and sweet jwtatoes, so that the 

 vegetation consists for the most part of very dense thorny second-growth scrub with 

 large tracts of coarse lalang grass, and only the higher portions of the mountains 

 are capped with the original old forest. My hunters succeeded in collecting up to an 

 elevation of 5000 feet, but the utterlv lawless condition of the farther interior 



