1897.] L. de Niceville —List of the Butterflies of Bali, fyc. 679 



Capt. E. Y. Watson's remarks on these species in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 Hist. Soc., vol. x, p. 614, n. 40 (1897), with which de Niceville agrees. 



57. *Ypthima huebneri, Kirby. 



Sumba (Pagenstecher). This record requires confirmation we think, 

 as the species has never before been obtained out of the continent of 

 Asia except in Borneo. Dr. Pagenstecher gives the Y, philomela of 

 Hiibner from Java as a synonym, a species with six ocelli in pairs, while 

 Y. huebneri has only four ocelli, arranged one and three. He also gives 

 the Y. florensis of Snellen, from Flores, as another synonym, but this 

 surely is an absolutely distinct species from either of the others, as it 

 has only two very large ocelli on the underside of the hindwing, as 

 figured in Tijd. voor. Ent., vol. xxxiv, p. 235, n. 11, pi. xiv, fig. 3, 

 male (1891 ). Dr. Pagenstecher makes three mistakes in the reference to 

 this species, the page is 235 not 225, the plate is 14 not 4, and the figure 

 is 3 not 3a. In de Niceville's opinion Y. florensis is a synonym of 

 Y, asterope, Klug. 



58. *Ypthima asterope, Klug. 

 Sumba (Doherty). 



59. Erites medura, Horsfield. 

 Bali (Doherty). 



60. Melanitis ismene, Cramer. 



Bali, Lombok, Samba wa, Sumba (Doherty). Mr. Doherty and Dr. 

 Pagenstecher record this species under the name of M. leda, Linnaeus, 

 but according to Dr. A. G. Butler, that species is confined to Amboina 

 (Ent. Month. Mag., vol. xxi, p. 246 (1885). Mr. Fruhstorfer records 

 both M. ismene and M. leda from Lombok. This is probably a mistake. 

 The species is markedly affected by dry and wet weather, probably 

 Mr. Fruhstorfer keeps distinct the ocellated and non-ocellated forms, 

 which de Niceville has bred the one from eggs laid by the other. 



61. *Melanitis cruentula, Fruhstorfer. 



Lombok (Fruhstorfer). From the figure of this species in Berl. 

 Ent. Zeitsch., vol. xli, p. 386, pi. ix, fig. 5, female (1897), it appears 

 to be quite a distinct species from M. ismene. Mr. Fruhstorfer says it is 

 a local race of Af. belinda, Grose Smith, Nov. Zool., vol. ii, p. 79, n. 10 

 (1895), from Adonara. It is more than probable in de Niceville's opinion 

 that Grose Smith's name will stand for the species. 



