1885.] MR. KTRSCH ON BUTTERFLIES FROM TIMORLAUT. 27^ 



from Mindanao (sex not given) " dull green ; " while in a $ example 

 from Dinagat they were " bright chrome-yellow." 



The Sulu birds, both of which are adult males, have the head very 

 dark green. The wing-coverts are edged with fulvous. 



During my residence on Sulu Island I several times saw, but 

 failed to obtain, a species of Hornbill with a white head and tail 

 (? Cranorrhinus leucocephalus), and I am inclined to believe that 

 there are two species of the Bucerotidse in Sulu. With regard to 

 Pigeons, I could hear nothing of the existence of C nicobarica, but I 

 obtained a large Macropygia unknown to me, which I unfortunately 

 lost before any notes could be taken of it. Owls were apparently not 

 uncommon, as also a species of Cuprimulgus. Mr. Burbidge, in his 

 notes on his collection from Sulu, s|)eaks of the Fire-back Pheasant 

 as being among the birds he " saw, but could not secure ;" but 1 

 cannot help thinking that he must have been mistaken on this 

 point. 



2. On the Butterflies of Timorlaut. By Th. Kirsch, Gustos 

 for Entomology at the Royal Zoological Museum of 

 Dresden. (Communicated by Dr. A. B. Meyer, 

 C.M.Z.S.) 



[Eeceived February 16, 1885.] 



(Plate XIX.) 



In the list of Butterflies from Timorlaut, published by Mr. Butler 

 (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 366), 21 species from that island group 

 are enumerated. The collections of Mr. Riedel from Timorlaut, 

 presented to the Royal Zoological Museum of Dresden, eontain 

 examples of four more species from there, two of which and a variety 

 are undescribed. 



1. Ornithoptera riedeli, nov.sp. (Plate XIX. fig. 1 J , 2 $ .) 

 Oinithopterse darsio, Gray, valde afftnis, sed distincte diversa 



forma et plaga alarum posferiarum. Annulo collari maculisque 

 pectoralibus sanguineis sicut O. darsii; abdomine subtus segmentis 

 jpostice jlavo-atomatis. 

 o . -4/dE anticcB supra holosericeo-7iigrce, margine interno lutinre et 

 externa breviore quam O. darsii, subtus venis trans cellulam 

 discoidalem griseo-limbatis. Alee posticcB margine exteriore 

 minus sinuato, angulis apice vence mediance ejusdemque ramorum 

 minus prominentibus, polius plane rotundatis ; plaga magna 

 discoidali aureo-Jlava, certo situ leviter opalescente, extus 10- 

 dentata, intus basin versus oblique truncata, venis in maculas 

 septem divisis, macula antica trapezoidali, ilia cellulce discoidalis 

 subtriangulari, lateribus curvatis, ceteris qidnque apice emurgi- 

 natis. 



2 . Al<£ atro-fusc(e, holosericece, lunvlis unguste <ilbo-ciliatis ; 



