ON NEW AND LITTLE-KNOWN BUTTERFLIES. 4&3 



Habitat : Camotes, Bohol, Cebii, Leyte, Panaon, Surigao, Cami- 

 guin de Mindanao, Mindanao — all in the Philippines (Semper) ; Bazi- 

 lan in the Philippines (Fruhstorfer). 



Of this species I possess three males only. The female as figm^ed by 

 Mr. George Semper is white-banded, but the white colour is mixed 

 ■with pale ferruginous. Apparently the female is monomorphic. 

 6. Stmbrenthia semperi, Moore. 

 S. senium, Moore, Lep. Ind., vol, iv, p« 122 (1&99) ; S. lucina, Semper (nee 

 Cramer), Sch met t, Philipp,, p. 114, n, 134, pi. xxi, figs. 7, male; 8, female 

 (1888), p. 342 (1892); S. Jiyppoclus 'philippensis , Fruhstorfer, Berl. Ent, 

 Zeitsch., vol. xlv, p. 20 (190U). 



Habitat : Luzon, Bohol, Samar, Mindanao, Babuyanes, Mindoro — 

 all in the Philippines (Semper). 



Mr. Semper records both S. anna, Semper, and S. lucina^ Cramer 

 (the latter species Dr. Moore re-names S. semperi) from the islands 

 Bohol and Mindanao. I greatly doubt if two really distinct species of 

 the same group of the genus occur together on the same island, unless 

 the mountain and the plains forms are different. I have two males of 

 this species only from the Philippines. The female as figured by 

 Mr. Semper differs considerably in shape from the female of S. anna, 

 it has the bands of the upperside of both wings very much broader, 

 they are yellow apparently tinged with white, but much less so than in 

 S. anna. Mr. Pruhstorfer records one species only from the Philip- 

 pines, remarking that " S. liyppoclus anna has $ $ nearly like the 

 alpine white Javan hippocla Hiibner, $ $ , while the rare aberration 

 lucina, Semper, which I call philippensis, is like the normal yellow 

 female." Mr, Fruhstorfer gives no detailed description of this new 

 form philippensis, which apparently sinks to S. semperi^ Moore. 

 7. Symbrenthza dissoluta, Staudinger. 

 S. hypatia, Wallace (?), var, dissoluta, Staudinger, Iris, vol, ii, p, 49 (1889). 

 Habitat : Palawan, one of the Philippine Isles [Stand inger). 

 I have seen no specimen of this species. The female is white. I 

 do not know if it is dimorphic, that a yellow female is found with the 

 white one or not. 



8. Symbrenthia lombokensis, Fruhstorfer. 

 S. hyppoclus (sic) lomhoJcensis, Fruhstorfer, Berl. Eot. Zeitsch,, vol. xlv, p,, 

 19 (1900). 



Habitat : Lombok (Fruhstorfer). 



I have a single female only of this species, which is white, I aia 

 not aware if a yellow female also occurs in the island. 



