4.42 Lieut.-Colonel N. Manders on the 
almost hesitate to record that at 9.30 a.m. March 19th, 
1906 (I am particular as to the date) at Curepipe Railway 
Station, a butterfly flew past me which I am satisfied in 
my own mind was this particular insect. I was near 
enough to see distinctly the peculiar shape of the forewings 
—but I refrain from further harrowing details! let it 
suffice I did not capture it. 
Bourzon. In this island it is becoming very rare; I saw 
five specimens in the museum at St. Denys, which seemed 
to be slightly different from the Mauritius form. Dr. 
Vinson says that it flies between 9 am. and I0 am., in 
April and May and again in September. Unfortunately 
M. Réynard’s coloured drawings of the larvee have been 
lost. I am greatly indebted to Captain Stammers, 
R.A.M.C., for the photograph from which the figure is 
made, giving an accurate representation of the appearance 
of the specimen in the Port Louis Museum. Also to Mr. 
Roland ‘Trimen, F.R.S., for the loan of his specimen above 
referred to, and figured on Plate XXIX. 
Hypolimnas misippus, L. 
15. Diadema Bolina, Linn. 
Mauritius. Not by any means a common insect, but 
widely distributed. Three forms of the female occur, the 
most frequent being the mimic of JD. chrysippus, the 
form inaria I have rarely seen, and of the form alcippoides 
one specimen only in the Port Louis Museum. I have 
found it at Curepipe, Quatre Bornes, 500 feet, and. at 
Mahébourg on the coast. It occurs also at Pamplemousses 
and in the Moka district it Flies IX—X1I. 
Bourson. Rare, and only found on the coast. I saw 
either this or the next species in April settled on the 
flowers of the Zantana in an inaccessible spot in the bed 
of the river at St, Denys. 
Hypolimnas bolina, L. 
I have only seen two specimens of this insect in 
Mauritius, one, a female, in the Port Louis Museum, which 
was captured somewhere in the Moka district about five 
miles from Port Louis, and the other, a male, taken near 
the harbour of Port Louis by Mr. de Gaye in February 
1906.* This specimen is now in my collection; it 1s in 
* There is a third specimen in the British Museum collection 
captured by Capt. Tulloch. 
