131 A NATURALIST'S WANDERINGS 



country at Kotta-cljaAva. My favourite resort was the sunny 

 pathways, bordered by second growth forest of some size, 

 where many attractive Mussa^ndas, euphorl>iaccoTis trees and 

 shrubs, and"^ thick clumps of the aromatic and brightly varie- 

 gated Lantanay were always in flower. 



The Lanfana was one of the greatest favourites of most kinds 

 of insects ; beetles, bees, and butterflies were always present by 

 scores ; and I observed that they visited the different coloured 

 florets quite indiscriminately. Of the last the swallow-tailed 

 species — PapUio hrama, tJiesens, arycles, arjiina, and a lovely 

 black-and-white species Avhich is known as PajJiUo safurnus 

 — were specially abundant, but difficult to secure, as they were 

 greatly persecuted by all the other species feeding on it — the 

 Pieridse and the drajron-flies beinn: their worst enemies. 



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They constantly sailed round and round in a timid way, as if 

 watching for an opportunity to swoop in, but were often so 

 driven off that for half an hour at a time I have seen them 

 unable to make one successful visit. The beautiful tailed 

 io.T^/ras and ApJma^ns were also in abundance, while Hypohjmnas 

 anomala frequented the thick jungle, floating out at intervals 

 into the open* "This species ofters the most remarkable, 

 case known among butterflies of a reversal of the usual sexual 

 colouring, the male being always dull brown and the female 

 glossed with rich blue . . . The brilliant blue gloss causes the 

 female to resemble or mimic Eiiplsea midamits^^ (Wallace). 

 Mr. Butler has shown me in the British Museum, however, 

 males with nearly as much blue as the females. It is 

 singular that no male of this species is yet known from Java. 

 Specimens in the British Museum, named by Mr. Wallace as 

 males of ^nomaZa, are not from Java. Undoubted males from 

 Malacca and Borneo have broad patches of blue towards the 

 border of the front wings. The female Anomala from Java has 

 more blue than the specimens of the same sex from Borneo, 

 and it is not improbable that the Java male may have more 

 blue tlian the Bornean. What appears to be a female, named 

 Hypohjmnas ivcdlaceana by Mr. Butler from^ India,' corresponds 

 with the male IT. anomala (of AVallace's description) in the 

 British 3[useum from Borneo. The Euplfea which these species 

 mimic is common to Indo-Malasia. 



From Kotta-djawa I moved further westward to Gunung- 



