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Malie. It is found at a height of about 800-1000 feet and over, but is not seen lower 

 down. It is fond of beds of streams, where it flies over the trees in company with Ewplcea 

 milra, having an elegant sailing flight. 



In the Praslin examples, as Joannis has remarked, the metallic patch of the underside 

 is usually more yellowish rather than green, but this is paralleled in many of the 

 Mahe specimens and so cannot be taken as a distinctive race-character. 



Distribution. — Gloriosa ; Aldahra ; Seychelles (Praslin, Mahe). 



Family Papilionidte. 



79. Papilio disparilis, Bdv., var. nana, Obth. 



Fapilio disparilis v. tiana, Oberthur, Etudes d'Eatomologie, iv. p. 54 ; Saalm., Lep. Madag. pp. 35, 

 56 ; Joannis, Ann. S. E. France, 1894, p. 426. 



This butterfly, if it really occurs in the Seychelles, must be very rare, as it has remained 

 quite unknown to all the entomologists who have collected in the group during the last 

 thirty years. I doubt the accuracy of the locality. 



This variety, which is only half the size of the type-form disparilis (from Reunion), 

 appears peculiar to the Seychelles. 



Pamily PieridsB. 



80. Catopsilia florella,'Eh. 



Papilio florella, Fab., Syst. Ent. p. 479. 



Callidryas florella, Guenee, Mail]. Reun., Lep. p. 5, t. 22. ff. 1, 2 ; Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1866, 



p. 330 ; Saalm., Lep. Madag. p. 66. 

 Catopsilia Jiorella, J oa.ums, Ann. S. E. France, 1894, p. 429; Bingham, Butt. India, ii. p. 223 

 (fig-). 

 Seychelles. — Recorded by Joannis as collected in Mahe by Philibert, but I much 

 doubt the accuracy of this locality. If it occurs in the Seychelles it must be very scarce. 

 Certainly we never saw it, and it w as also quite unknown to the local collectors. 



Distribution. — Africa from C. de Verde Is. to Zanzibar; Reunion; Mauritius; Mada- 

 gascar ; Mayotta ; Sokotra ; Abd-el-Kuri ; throughout India ; Assam ; Burma ; Siam ; 

 China; Ceylon. 



[81. Teracolus aldabrensis, Holland. 



Teracolm aldabrensis, Holland, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1895, p. 269, t. 8. ff. 7, 8; Joannis, Bull. S. E. 

 France, 1899, p. 199. 



This species is recorded from Mahe (Seychelles) by Martin Linell (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 xix. p. 695), but there is evidently some error of locality, as otherwise this butterfly is 

 quite unknown from the Seychelles, and such a conspicuous species is hardly likely to 

 have escaped notice if it really occurs there.] 



