"62 Christmas Island. 



West of Flying Fish Cove in August and September ; at and 

 near Rocky Point, ^STovembcr and December, 1897; Flying Fish 

 Cove, April, 1898. 



One perfect female and a dozen more or less broken examples 

 (of both sexes) Tvere collected. As usual with the species of this 

 genus, C. andreivsi has an extremely rapid flight and is difficult 

 to catch. 



5. Junonia villida. 



Papilio viUida, Fabricius, Mnnt. Ins., ii, p. 35 (1787) ; Donovan, Ins. New 

 Holl., pi. XXV, fig. 3 (1805). 



Five specimens, not dated. 



This is the typical Australian form of the species, differing from 

 that occurring on the islands of the South Pacific in the narrower 

 and less brilliantly red - tinted fulvous markings. Dr. Horsfield 

 obtained the same form in Java. 



6. Hypolimnas misippus. 



PapUio misippus, Linureufi, Mus. liiid. Ulr., p. 264 (1764). 



9 Flying Fish Cove, March, 1898. 



The single example obtained is much rubbed and shattered ; it 

 was the only specimen seen, and appeared immediately aftei* 

 north-easterly gales, so that there can be little doubt that it Avas 

 blown over fi'om Java. 



7. Hypolimnas nerina, var. listeri. 



EifpoUmnas listeri, Butler, P.Z.S., 1888, p. 542. 



Typical H. linteyi is the prevalent form in Christmas Island, 

 but it proves to vary more than the eight examples obtained by 

 Mr. Lister led me to believe, though certainly far less than the 

 race occurring at Suva (Yiti Lcvu). In the wet season it is repre- 

 sented by a form the male of which is like H. nerina on both 

 surfaces, but the female differs iu having the tawny patch on 

 the primaries small, as in H. iphigenia; a second form agrees 

 exactly with JI. ipldgenia on both surfaces ; a third form nearly 

 approaches M. proserpina , but has much smaller tawny patches 

 on the female, and the white belt on the under-surface of the 

 secondaries represented in both sexes by a whitish haze ; this 

 variety occurs in both large and small phases. Then follows 

 typical a. listeri, and finally a form near H. alcmene, but with 

 only a spot of tawny on the primaries and none on the secondaries. 

 It will be necessary to consider these varieties separately. 



Var. 1 (wet phase). Three very much shattered examples, not 

 dated, but probably collected in February or March, 1898. 



Var. 2 = H. iphigenia, 9 24th December ; $ Flying Fish Cove, 

 •29th December, 1897. 



