430 Walter Rothschild: 



catching for two reasons, there were no competmg- pursuits — 

 110 beetles to catch — and secondly there Avas no rain to keep 

 US indoors. We had good health nearly all the tirae. Even 

 in moths we did not do so badly, thoiigh they were nearly 

 all taken by beating, and one rarely captures the finer species, 

 Attacus, Ophideres, &c., in this way. The bats were out in 

 immense numbers, and made my baits quite useless, and nothing- 

 at all came to my lights. There is a pretty fair variety of 

 Nyctimeridae and other diurnal and semidiurnal Bombyces, 

 but no really fine species. The collection of Noctuae is very 

 small, as always happens in dry seasons, and as we always 

 stuck to forest and uninhabited country we got no Sphinges 

 to speak of.'' 



Although from the above report of Mr. Doherty it 

 Avould appear that he had extremely bad luck, the collection 

 sent shows that Mr. Doherty's ideas of bad luck, and those 

 of home naturalists are very dilferent, for in five weeks 

 collecting only, with the help of his four Lepchas he caught 

 these 5000 moths and butterfiies. 



For the sake of saving tiine I propose to divide this 

 paper into two parts, the flrst part deals exclusively witli the 

 Rhopalocera, and the second part, which will take a long 

 time to prepare, will treat upon the Heterocea, and at the 

 end I propose to give a complete list of all the moths and 

 butterflies hitherto described from Celebes. Of the moths — 

 Lycaenidae, Terias, and Hesperidae — I have not given the 

 iiumber of specimens of each species as the series was large 

 in every case. 



Family Wyniphalidae. 



Subfam. Danainae. 



^'ectaria Blanchardii Marcli. 80 specimens. 



Ideopsis Vitrea Blanch. 60 specimens. 



Chlorochropsis nov. gen. This genus differs from Ide- 

 opsis chiefly in the sex mark, which consists of a small round 

 bare patch at the anal angle of the bind wiiigs in the male. 

 Female unknown. There is also wanting in this species the 

 large semitransparent bar which occupies three parts of the 

 forewings of Ideopsis. 



Chlorochropsis Dohertyi n. sp. Taf IV. Fig. 3. Male. 

 Shape and markings almost identical with female „Xasuma." 

 Ground colour dark blackish browii. forewings with a mar- 



