286 Mr. A. R. Wallace's Notes 



Female. Rather larger than D. anomala, the transverse 

 band of blue spots wanting, the intra-marginal spots 

 smaller near the apex, and more incurved towards the end 

 of the cell ; on the hind-wings a broad brownish band 

 behind, and the marginal and submarginal spots much 

 more distinct. Beneath ; there is in both sexes a whitish 

 submarginal band on the hind-wings, of which there is 

 hardly any trace in D. anomala. 



Hah. — Macassar $ , Menado ? (Celebes) . 



Two females in the British Museum, said to be from 

 Java, dilBFer from mine in having the apex of the wings 

 rather more angular, and in the upperside being nearly 

 uniformly glossed, as in my Bornean form. A male, 

 without locality, agrees closely with my Malacca specimen, 

 but has the white spots and lines more developed on the 

 disc and apex of the upper- wings. A male from Borneo 

 in the British Museum approaches the colouring of the 

 female, being darker than my Malacca male, and having 

 a brighter blue gloss on the outer margin, and apical 

 third of the anterior wings. Two other males, marked 

 "India," closely resemble my Bornean male, but have 

 the apical white spots much less distinctly marked. One 

 of these has much more blue gloss on the outer margin 

 of the anterior wings than the other. We thus find, that 

 there is a great amount of variation in this species, but 

 have not sufficient materials to determine whether there 

 are any fixed local forms. 



Felder has described this insect as Papilio Perimele, 

 Cramer, and I was for some time disposed to agree with 

 him, but a more careful comparison of the figure with my 

 specimens has convinced me that Cramer's figure repre- 

 sents a female form of his Pafilio Lasinassa, and that the 

 present insect must have another name bestowed upon 

 it. Craraer's figure differs from D. anomala in the fol- 

 lowing particulars : — 1. The wings are shorter and broad- 

 er, and the upper- wings less falcate, 2. The blue gloss 

 on the anterior wings is not represented in the figure, 

 and the blue spots there shown are not found in D. ano- 

 mala. 3. The submarginal spots on the anterior wings 

 are entirely absent from the figure. 4. The spots on the 

 hind-wings do not decrease towards the anal angle, but 

 are of equal size in the figure. 5. On the under-surface 

 D. anomala has two white spots below the costal vein, 

 the figure has only one. 6. There are two spots, one 



