24 THE Entomologist's record. 



the cannibal Battaks, and refused to go to the mountains. However, 

 after giving them a Battak guide and interpreter, they went oft" to the 

 hills regularly, and did very well there. 



There are many interesting notes on mimicry. One of these relates 

 to a very peculiar endemic form of the female of Pa/iilio incnnKni, 

 Linn. " It belongs to the first form of female of the species, l.i'., the 

 form which has no tail to the hindwing and is most like the male ; 

 the second form is also tailless, but has a large white patch on the 

 outer half of the hindwing never found in the first form. This 

 peculiar first form female has the ' epaulettes ' {i.e., the basal portion 

 of the discoidal cell of the forewing on both surfaces) almost pure 

 white, faintly tinged only with ochreous, so that it may perhaps be 

 called cream-coloured. It probably mimics the second form female of 

 P. forhcsi, which also possesses similar white epaulettes, the first form 

 lacking them altogether, and is therefore like the male. It may be 

 urged against this theory that females of 7'. forbcsl are very rare, 

 especially the white-epauletted second form. Dr. Martin having 

 obtained only two specimens of it, but this scarcity is probably more 

 apparent than real, both sexes of /'. forhrsi occurring in equal numbers, 

 but the males, coming down to the hill streams to drink, are caught 

 in large numbers, while their less thirsty spouses keep only to the 

 thick forest, where they escape the dangers of the butterfly net." 



British entomologists will be greatly interested in the remarks on 

 Anosia an-hippus (^<'i-ijipiis), which has occurred in Malayana. The 

 authors follow out mainly the line of argument taken by Dr. Buckell 

 (Kut. Ui'coyd, vol. v., p 1) to whose article they refer, but refuse to 

 accept airliipinis, Fab., as the correct name for the species, when 

 erippHs, Cramer, is so distinctly the older name. Of its distribution 

 Mr. Niceville writes:— "Mr. W. F. Kirby has already recorded it 

 from Java. I now for the first time, I believe, record it from North 



Borneo, the late Mr. W. Davison having sent me a male 



specimen from that island. The Rev. W. J. Holland notes that he 

 has received it from Borneo and Java, also its occurrence in the 

 Azores. In Part ii. of a new edition of Morris' liisttnii nf ]>ritis/i 

 BKfti'rtlic^, p. 72, it is stated to have been found in the Andaman 

 Islands. Furthermore, the late Mr. E. F. T. Atkinson, in 1889, 

 presented a female specimen of this species to the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta, which was captured on April 19th, 1889, by Mr. C. White, 

 the chief officer on board the P. and 0. s.s., ' Ravenna,' in the 

 Straits of jMalacca (which is at the point where the butterfly was caught 

 only a few miles broad). It is, therefore, not at all improbable that 

 the butterfly flew from either the adjacent island of Sumatra or from 

 the Asiatic mainland." 



The book is full of good, interesting and readable notes; scarcely 

 a species is mentioned that has not some original observations on its 

 variation and habits attached to it. It is very rarely that one meets a 

 l.ixt of butterflies of an unknown country that one can read with 

 pleasure. This one can be so read, independently of its value as a 

 work for reference. 



Errata. — Vol. vii., p. 293, line 3/5, for " mmndosa " read 

 " vitclli}ut." — Vol. vii., p. 294, line 12 from bottom, for " Stift' hairs 

 intermixed" read " Stiff' hairs not intermixed," — Vol, vii., p. 320, line 

 21, for " pi/roiiiidca'' read " traijopofjonis," 



