48 Messrs. W. L. Distant arid W. B. Piyer on 



16. Eiq)l(jea MSnetriesi. 



Euiiloea MmHriisii, Felder, Wien. ent. Mon. iv. p. 398. n. 15 (1860). 



The habits of most of the EupJoece are very similar 5 they 

 like the slight shade of partly regrown jungle, forest-paths, 

 and weedy places near the edge of the forest — places, in fact, 

 where there is neither too much nor too little sun. I once 

 saw an immense flight of a species of Euploea ; for days they 

 came flying over the Bay of Sandakan from south to north ; 

 there were always from four or five to twenty to be seen at 

 once, flying along in the full sunshine as fast as they could, 

 and not flitting backwards and forwards in partial shade, as 

 is their usual custom. 



17. Euplcea mulciher. 

 Papilio mulciher-, Cramer, P.ap. Exot. ii. t. cxxvii. C, D (1790). 

 Common nearly everywhere — overgrown scrub stuff, edges 

 of forest, forest-paths on nearly open ground. 



18. Euploea mazares, var. aristotelis. 



Euplcea mazares, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. Co. i. p. 128 (1857). 

 Callipla-a aristotelis, Moore (Horsf. & Moore), Proc. Zool. See. 1883, 

 p. 292. n. 3. 



19. Euploea Lo^vei. 



Salpinx Loivei, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xiv. p. 294 (1878). 

 Common ; usually seen below native houses (which are 

 built on piles). 



Subfam. Sattrin^. 



20. Melanitis leda. 



Papilio leda, Liuujeus, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 773. n. 151 (1767). 

 Papilio ismene, Cramer, Pap. Ex. i. t. xxyi. A, B (1775). 



Abundant; rarely flies in the daytime unless it is dis- 

 turbed, when it has a way of settling on the ground, or a dead 

 leaf, or some similar substance, from which it is not easily 

 discernible. For barely an hour or so about sundown it flies 

 at the edge of the forest, four or five together. 



Mr. deNiceville has recently stated that these two generally 

 considered distinct species, M. leda and M. ismene, are but the 

 wet- and dry-season forms of one species ; and this seems 

 borne out by Mr. Pryer's experience, who placed them 

 together in his collection as varietal forms. 



21. E7'ites ar genii na. 

 Erites argentina, Butler, Cat. Sat. Brit. Mus. p. 188. n. 5 (1868). 

 One of the few butterflies that frequent forests ; but even 



