262 L. de Niceville — List of the Butterflies of the Ke Isles. [No. 2, 



38. Euthalia (Lexias) ^uopus, Linnaeus. 



Ribbe as Symphcedra aeropa. Occurs only on Great Ke on the tops 

 of hills, and is very rare. Not found on Little Ke Island. 



39. Salamis sabina, Cramer. 



Sometimes rare, at other times common, on all the islands. 



40. Doleschallia australis, Felder. 



Ke Dulan (Butler). At times scarce, sometimes commou, on Little 

 and Great Ke Islands. 



41. Doleschallia polibete, Cramer. 



Commoner than the preceding species on Little Ke and Great Ke 

 Isles. It is very interesting that two such distinct species should be 

 found together on one small group of islands. B. polibete appears to be 

 found in the Himalayas, Assam, Barma, South India, Ceylon, the Anda- 

 man and Nicobar Islands, and again in Lombok, Amboina, and the Ke 

 Islands. It was originally described by Cramer from Amboina in Pap. 

 Ex., vol. iii, pi. ccxxxiv, figs. D, E, female (1779) ; Cramer's figure 

 under the same name on pi. ccxxxv, figs. C, D, male, also from Amboina, 

 has been named B. crameri by Distant in Ent. Month. Mag., vol. xxii, 

 p. 41 (1885), and is a quite distinct species. The Lombok, Amboina and 

 Ke Islands form differs from the form from the other localities named 

 above as B. polibete in having the four subapical white dots on the fore- 

 wing much more strongly developed, the more western form having them 

 more feebly developed and sometimes entirely absent, but this solitary 

 character is one on which it is hardly sufficient to base a distinct 

 species. B. bisaltide, Cramer, and B, pratipa, Felder, seem to be one 

 species, which is found in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Nias, Java, 

 Bawean, Borneo, Bali, Lombok and the Philippines. 



42. Charaxes keianus, Rothschild. Plate I, Figs. 4, 4a, 46, pupa. 



C. pyrrhus keianus, Rothschild, Nov. Zool., vol. iv, p. 508, n. 2 (1898). 



A rare butterfly on Little and Great Ke Islands. Mr. Kiihn has 

 bred the larva, which feeds on Albizzia sp., and also Mesua ferrea (Iron- 

 wood). The pupa is of the usual shape, very broad, rounded, smooth, 

 with some small knobs only round the cremaster. In colour it is 

 pale green, with snow white stripes and dashes. This species is des- 

 cribed by de Niceville in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. xii, p. , 

 n. 8, pi. Z, figs. 13, male; 14, female (J898). When describing it 

 de Niceville did not know that it would subsequently be named by 

 the Hon. Walter Rothschild. 



