1898.] Butterflies from Buru in the Moluccas. 313 



I prefer to use his name. Herr C. Ribbe in Iris, vol. ii, p. 237, n. 73 

 (1889), alters the spelling to " pellucides" Goeze's work is in none 

 of the Calcutta libraries. 



35. Neptis venilia, Linnaeus. 



Boisduval as " Limenitis" venilia from Bourou. My female from 

 Burn differs from males from the same island in having all the white 

 markings on the upperside larger aud more conspicuous, and the blue 

 coloration reduced. Dr. Staudinger's " Athyma " venilia, var. (ab. ?) 

 evanescens, from Batjan, which he has kindly sent me, appears to be a 

 very good local race, with all the white markings much reduced, videl&x. 

 Schmett., vol. i, p. 147, pi. Ii, male (1886). 



36. Htpolimnas bolina, Linnaeus. 



Boisduval as " Diadema " lasinassa, Cramer, from Bourou. Wallace 

 records it from every island in the Archipelago. Buru males are 

 normal. I have three distinct forms of the female from Buru : — I, 

 the upperside almost uniformly fuscous with no discal macular white 

 pr violet band jbetween the second median nervule and the costa on 

 the forewing ; II, as in I, but with a deep orange patch in the submediau 

 interspace of the forewing ; III, as in I, but with the above-mentioned 

 macular baud, which is sometimes white, sometimes violet, and the 

 outer jbalf of the hindwing more or less bright brown ; no orange patch. 

 None of these forms have been named and figured by Cramer, though 

 II approaches his " Papilio " antigone, aud III his "P." melita. 



37. Hypolimnas alimena, Jjinnaeus. 



Boisduval as " Diadema " alimena from Bourou. Wallace as 

 " J9." alimena from Bouru. Males only received. 



38. Hypolimnas pandora, Wallace. 



The female only is described from Bouru by Wallace. The male has 

 a large discal violet patch on the upperside of the forewing divided into 

 four portions by the black veins, the posteriormost portion in the 

 submediau interspace is small, the two portions in the median inter- 

 spaces are large, the anteriormost portion in the lower discoidal inter- 

 space as small as the first-mentioned portion ; except for this violet 

 patch the forewing is unmarked ; the hindwing is like that of the 

 female, except that the discal series of oval black spots are blind, in 

 ;the female they are pupilled with violet. The hindwiug differs from 

 £hat of H. pandarus, Linnaeus, in entirely lacking the large discal 

 yiolet patch of that species, the orange area being consequently much 

 Jarger. The underside differs but slightly from that of the female ; in 



