512 New Forms of Butterflies from Buru 



8. Charaxes madensis Eoths. s (pi. IX, figs. 4, 5). 

 Entomologist, xxii, p. 172 (1899) (Mount Mada, Bum) % . 

 Nov. Zool., vi, t. 8, f. 4 (1899) ; vii, p. 346 (1900). 



J . Upperside of the fore wing with black ground-colour, and 

 chestnut-brown markings. Basal area chestnut-brown, joined at the 

 submedian to a lighter postdiscal band reaching vein 3 ; this band 

 indistinct distally, and representing in shape and area the band of 

 the $ , its outer part above vein 2 only indicated by indistinct spots, 

 its inner part more distinct, above vein 3 only indicated by a large 

 spot in 3 and a larger one in 4. The anterior part of the band seen 

 in the $ is represented in the $ by two ovate spots in 5 and 6, only 

 distinct proximally. Hind wing marked as in the % , but the band 

 broader and creamy-white. Distal margin narrower, and the black 

 patches more separated by the chestnut ground-colour, which forms a 

 darker narrower marginal edge. Underside walnut-brown (Bidgway, 

 pi. xxviii), markings somewhat as in the ? , but no white marks. Fore 

 wing with postdiscal line not waved as in the $ , but sinuate and curved 

 outwardly in cellule 5. Hind wing with the postdiscal band less 

 strongly waved than in the $ , narrower and of a darker brown than 

 the ground-colour. Distal border paler than the ground-colour and 

 a narrow marginal border as in the $ . 



Length of fore wing : 49 mm. 



Habitat. — South coast of Buru, Lek Soela, February - March, 

 one <?, one $ ; West Central Buru, Kako Tagalago, 2,700 feet, April, 

 one $ . one $' ; Mount Tagalago, 2,000 feet, April, one $ , one $ ; 

 Koentoeroen, 3,500 feet, April, one 5 . 



The discovery of the $ of this species shows it to be a form distinct 

 from mars Stgr., to which it has been assigned. Its nearest ally must 

 be eurialus Cram., from Ceram and Amboina. 



The following were not described in the Entomologist : — 



9. Papilio ulysses ampelius Boths. $ . 

 Nov. Zool, xv, p. 174 (1908) (Buru). 



Besembles typical ulysses from Ceram, but with more blue, especially 

 on the hind wing. Fore wing with a larger patch at end of cell and 

 mostly with more blue scaling along lower half of cell. Hind wing with 

 the blue more extended, in cellule 5 mostly reaching the submarginal 

 lunule. 



Underside of fore wing. — The inner edge of the distal white area is 

 irregular below vein 5. Hind wing with a broader pale marginal area. 



