FAUNA SIMALURENSIS. 201 



NOTE XXII. 



FAUNA SIMALURENSIS. 



LEPIDOPTERA RHOPALOCERA, 



FAM. PIERIDAE. 



BY 



R. VAN EECKE. 



(With 2 textfigures). 



The Leyden Museum of Natural History received a small 

 number of Pieridae from the islands Pulu Babi and Si- 

 malur, collected by Mr. Edw. Jacobson. Mentioning eight 

 species only, I call attention to the importance of this small 

 collection, because two species prooved to be new and three 

 other ones were represented by most interesting varieties. 

 Especially the islet Pulu Babi seems to possess a remark- 

 able fauna, deviating from that of the neighbouring islands. 

 Pulu Babi is a coral-islet, totally overgrown with a dense, 

 by people little visited forest. 



The following is an enumeration of the species received, 

 with description of the novelties. 



1. Lepfosia xiphia Fabr. nov. var. micro}) undata. cf&Q. 

 Nos 4316 and 4317. 



Hab. Pulu Babi. 



Exp. alar, of the male 34 niM., that of the female 40 mM. 

 The colour and external morphological structure is quite 

 like that of L. chlorographa Hiibn., but the pattern is 

 different. The apical black spot is very localised round the 

 apex of the anterior wing and rectangular ; the subapical 



Notes from the Leyden Miuseum, Vol. XXXV. 



