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2. HuEBNEKi Kirby. (PI. XVI, fig. 35). 



HiiBNER, Ztitrdge, I,/. 17, /'(<;. 83, 84 (1818). . . . Ypthima Philomela. 

 KiREY, Caf. Diurn. Lep., /. 95, N^. 18 (1871) . . . „ Hiibneri. 



Distant, R/iop. Ma/., p. 57, tab. T,/ii;. 5 (1882 — 1886). 

 Moore, Lep. Ind., II, /. 77,//. \\\,fig. i, la— //(1893). „ „ 



Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Enl. Soc. London, 1893, 



p. % pi. \, fig. <^ 



BrNGHAM, Fauna Brit. Lidia, I, />. 142 (1905). ... „ „ 



Fruhstorfer, (Seitz, Grossschm. d. Erde), p. 287,//. 99^ 



(191 1) „ Philomela. 



W. J. Batavia (3 — 14); Meester Cornells (25); Depok (95) ; Buitenzorg (275); 

 Patjet (11 14) {Jacobson). 



C. J. Semarang (6); prov. Jokjokarta {Jacobson); Salatiga (580); (^«<(?(i5(?«). 



E. J. Jember, prov. Besouky (98). 



The present species is common everywhere in the low lying country ; I 

 also received specimens, however, from the mountains. Moore and Bingham, 

 following DE Niceville, recognize definite forms of the dry and wet season. 

 I am unable to accept the view of these entomologists. I possess many specimens 

 captured both at the height of the wet and in the middle of the dry season 

 and can find only individual differences between these. Some specimens are 

 somewhat darker in colour on the upper side than others, but these occur as 

 much in the dry as in the wet season. The under side also in some is 

 more whitish than in others, a feature which appears to manifest itself especially 

 in $. There is much difference in the size of the oceUi, both as regards the 

 large apical eye-like blotch and that on the under side of the hind-wings; 

 some of the ocelli at times are in contact while at others they are separate. 



In nine specimes caught at Semarang in August and the beginning of Septem- 

 ber — therefore at the height of the dry season — the ocelli on the under side of 

 the hind- wings differ, indeed, somewhat in size but are otherwise quite similar 

 to those in specimens taken in the middle of the rainy season. I also possess 

 specimens captured in March — therefore in the wet season — in which these 

 ocelli are less developed than in the others. 



The caterpillar feeds on rounipotit paliit (Paspalum Conjugatum Berg). It 

 is hairless and dark ochre-yellow, somewhat darker at the sides and with a 

 faint dark dorsal line. That green individuals occur, as figured by de Nice- 

 ville and Moore is, however, possible. The chrysalis is green and, according 

 to DE Nic£vii.LE, sometimes also brown. From a pupa of 29 June the perfect 

 insect appeared on 10 July. 



