( 442 ) 



reaches always to 0, even in the specimens in which its width does not exceed 

 3 mm. 



The position of the last throe subcostal branches of the forewing. which are 

 stalked together, namely, SC^ SC, SC", is not constant. In tlie <? SC^ stands 

 nearer the cell than SC^ this latter vein and SC forming a fork, but the distance 

 between the points of origin of SC° and SC is very variable. In most ? ? the 

 position of SC and SC is normal, in one e.xample SO'^ is abont 1 mm. distant from 

 SC, while in two others SC branches off before SC', SC* and SC^ forming the 

 distal fork. 



Hab. Java : Mt. Gede (Prillwitz. leg. ; received from Herr Frnhstorfer) ; coll. 

 Felder; 10 cJcf, 8 ? ?. 



23(?. H. libelluloides lombokensis Rothsch., subsp. nov. 



? . Wings above. Forewing : black basal area less extended than in the 



preceding races, the apex of the cell down to M- being as pale as the outer area 



of the wing. Hindwing : basal area nearly all pale glaucous blue ; band broad, 



entering cell, its proximal edge faintly concave or straight, crossing M at or 

 before W. 



Underside. Both wings somewhat more extended greenish bine than in 



sumatrana : apex of cell of forewing and disc paler than the outer marginal area, 

 this pale scaling almost forming an ill-defined discal baud. 



Length of forewing: 31 — 33 mm. 



Hab. Sapit, Lombok, 2000 feet, May— June 1890 (H. Frnhstorfer), 2 ? ?. 



24. Gynautocera virescens reducta Rothsch., subsp. nov. 



S ? . Hindtviny, ribort', deeper green than in the individuals from the Southern 

 Moluccas, the green colour, moreover, less extended in cell and towards base, 

 the greater part of the cell being black. On the underside the bluish green 

 scaling is also reduced, the abdominal area of the hindwing, especially, being more 

 black than bluish green. 



The black basal rings of the sternites of the abdomen are narrower than the 

 red portions of the segments. 



Hab. Batchian, March 1892 and August, September 1897 (W. Doherty), 

 5 (?c?, 1 ? ; also on Morty and Halmahera (Mus, Brit, and Oxon.). 



In this form SC^ of the forewing is sometimes stalked with SC^^, and R' 

 and R^ are on a short stalk in all six specimens. Two S i have R", and the ? 

 R' of the left forewing forked. 



Walker, in IJst Lep. Ins. Brit. Mus. XXXI. p. 1 11 (1864), records G. virescens 

 from Timor. This locality is, we think, erroneons. The specimen was contained 

 in a collection purchased by the British Museum from Mr. Stevens ; the collection 

 was said to be made by Mr. Wallace in Timor. However, in this same collection 

 there were a good many sjiecics which are known only to occur in the Northern 

 Moluccas. As the supposed Timor individuals, for instance, of Charaxes latona 

 and Bordeta tj'iadriplaqintn, do not differ from examples obtained in the Northern 

 Moluccas, while it is well known that extremely few forms are identical on 



