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M. Nala Felder is very common in damp forests of the higher mountain 

 ranges of Java. A comparison of about lOO specimens, in my possession and 

 in the L.eiden Museum, not a single one of which shows the black spot referred 

 to, has convinced me that in general the individuals of both sexes from E. J. — 

 both of the dry and the wet season — as well as those from C. J., are darker 

 in colour but I possess one, taken during the wet season in E. J., which is 

 of a lighter colour. The specimens from W. J. are mostly of a brown shade, 

 both in the dry and the wet season, the 9 being lightest in colour. Never- 

 theless, I also possess several c?, of the dry as well as the wet season, from 

 W. J., whose upper side only is dark. Many specimens, but exclusively those 

 from W. J. have the border on the under side of a beautiful dark ochreous 

 yellow (Sudra), mostly of the wet season ; of five specimens taken at Buiten- 

 zoro- in July — in the dry season, therefore — this margin in only one is of 

 that colour. In the 9 especially this border on the under side is sometimes 

 very white and generally various transitions occur between this white and the 

 deepest ochreous yellow but, as already stated, only in W. J. Amongst these 

 some 9 are found (PI. XVII, fig. 51^) in which the ocelli, especially on the 

 under side of the fore-wings, have practically disappeared, agreeing, therefore, 

 with those which, according to Fruhstorfer, are supposed to be $ of his Nala. 

 The ochreous yellow in the border on the under side must probably be also 

 looked upon as a relic of the original red colour ; the brown in most specimens 

 from E. J. still contains much red. 



3. MooREi Felder. (PI. XVII, fig. 52). 



Felder, Navara, Lep., p. 502, No. 870,//. 67, //^. 9 (1867). Mycalesis Moorei. 

 Fruhstorfer, (Seitz, Grosssc/nn. d. Erde), p. iA9^ f^- 9 2^ 



(191 1) " " 



W. J. Tjampea (160); mountains in the district of Buitenzorg; Salak 

 mountains (780); mountains in the prov. Bantam. 



C.J. ? 



E. J. Semarou mountains (740); Tengger mountains (1290) {Jacobson). 



Like the two preceding, this butterfly is only met with in the forest of the 

 higher mountain ranges where, however, it is less common than M. Nala 

 Felder. The figure now given agrees with all the specimens in my possession. 

 That occurring in Seitz, Grossschm. d. Erde, evidently represents a specimen 

 with much reduced ocelli as they occur, according to Fruhstorfer, in the dry 



