from the Louisiade Archipelago. 165 



Papilionida. 



PiBRINM. 



Genus Eukema. 



Enrema, Iliibn. Verz. bek. Schmett, p. 96 (1818 ?). 

 Terias, Swains. Zuol. 111. i. pi. xxii. (1821). 



15. Eurema hecabe. 



Papilio hecahe, Linu. Syst, Nat. ed. x. i. "p. 470. n. 74 (1758). 



Two specimens, not differing appreciably from Indian ones, 

 taken on Eust Island, Oct. 24, 1888 j a third without locality. 



Genus Appias. 



Af>i>ias, Hiibu. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 91 (1818?): Butl. Cist. Eut. i. 

 p. 49 (1869). 



16. Appias cilia. 

 Pieris cilia, Fold. Reiso d. Novara, Lep. ii. p. 165. u. 139 (1865). 



" Normunby Island, Oct. 30, 1888." 



One male, not diifering from a specimen from Aru in the 

 British Museum. 



Genus Belenois. 



Belenois, Iliibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 92 (1818 ?) ; Butl. Cist. Eut. i. 

 p. 60 (1869). 



17. Belenois niseia. 

 Pieris niseia, Macl. King's Surv. Austr. ii. p. 459. n. 138 (1827). 



" Sudest Island, Oct. 24, 1888." 



Four specimens of this common Australian insect, three 

 males and one female. Two of the males and the female are 

 unusually small, and the female, which expands only 41 

 millim., belongs to a variety (?) hitherto unrepresented in the 

 British-Museum collection ; but it cannot safely be re- 

 garded as a distinct species in a group where the males are 

 fairly constant and the females extremely variable. The 

 fore wings are pale to beyond the cell ; but the costa, a line 

 above the basal half of the submedian nervure, a very large 

 oblong blotch conterminous with the costa, covering the end 

 of the cell, and the apical third and hind margin are dark 

 brown. The base is stained with orange as far as the level 



