﻿THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XLVIILl MAY, 1915. [No. 624 



SOME UNDESCEIBED BOENEAN NYMPHALIDtE. ^€||^^ 

 By J. G. MouLTON, F.E^.S. .! M§ 



Curator of the Sarawak Musei 



(Plate VI., Figs. 



In preparing a key to the butterflies of Borneo it became 

 apparent that a few forms needed description. As the com- 

 pletion of my work has to be postponed indefinitely, it is, per- 

 haps, useful to publish these few descriptions without further 

 delay. The types are at present in the Sarawak Museum ; they 

 will be deposited in the British Museum in due course, as has 

 been done with other types formerly in the possession of the 

 Sarawak Museum. 



Subfam. Danain^. 

 Danaida limniace, Or., kuchingana, subsp. nov. 



Shelford records both septentrionis and microsticta from 

 Borneo, the latter, I think, based on one female in the Sarawak 

 Museum, which should be referred to limniace, hitherto un- 

 recorded from Borneo. 



Typical limniace comes from the Himalayas, China, Hong-Kong, 

 and Formosa. A lighter form from Ceylon and South India has 

 been named mutina by Fruhstorfer. The single Bornean female 

 before me differs from this last subspecies in the following points : 

 hyaline streak from base of cell in fore wing larger, hyaline patch 

 below cell divided and a circular spot cut off distally. In the hind 

 wing the cell is divided by prominent cell-streak nearly reaching the 

 base of wing ; the white lines bordering the median and submedian 

 nervures are as long as the next pair which border the submedian 

 and internal nervures. Beneath (including abdomen) the general 

 colour is dull-golden olive, the discal region of the fore wing browner. 



Exp. al. 90 mm. 



I name this subspecies kuchingana, as the only known 

 specimen bears the label " Kuching (Sarawak) December 23rd, 

 1895." 



Subfam. Satykin^. 

 Mycalesis amoena, Druce, ramjiaiana, subsp. nov. 



M. amcena was described from Sarawak. This was verified 

 for me by Mr. N. D. Riley, who kindly examined the type in the 



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