from the Louistade Archipelago. 165 
Papilionida. 
Prerinz, 
Genus HUREMA. 
Eurema, Wiibn. Verz. bek, Schmett. p. 96 (1818 ?). 
Terias, Swains. Zool. Ul i, pl. xxii. (1821). 
15. Hurema hecabe. 
Payilio hecabe, Linn. 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; a third without locality. 
Genus APPIAS. 
Appias, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 91 (1818?); Butl. Cist, Ent. i. 
p- 49 (1869). 
16. Appias cilla. 
Pieris cilla, Feld. Reise d. Novara, Lep. ii. p. 165, n, 139 (1865), 
“ Normunby Island, Oct. 30, 1888.” 
One male, not differing from a specimen from Aru in the 
British Museum. 
Genus BELENOIS. 
Belenors, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 92 (1818 ?); Butl. Cist. Ent. i. 
p- 50 (1869), 
17. Belenots niseta. 
Pieris niseia, Macl, King’s Sury. 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 
