710 L. de Niceville — List of (he Butterflies of Bali, 8fc. [No. 4, 



279. Huphina mentes, Wallace. 



Lombok (Wallace and Fruhstorfer), Sambawa (Doherty). Dr. 

 Pagenstecher records this species from Sambawa in bis second paper as 

 " Pieris " pitys, Godart, originally described from Java, and figured from 

 thence by Lucas, but given from Timor only by Dr. A. R. Wallace. 

 Mr. Fruhstorfer says that Pieris synchroma, Rober, from Flores and Alor, 

 both sexes of which are figured, and Pieris pitys, Snellen (nee Godart), 

 from Flores, are synonyms of H. mentes. Mr. Fruhstorfer keeps 

 jH. pitys, Godart, and H. mentes, distinct, while Mynheer Snellen places 

 P. mentes as a synonym of P. pitys. This group of the genus is a very 

 difficult one, and till long series of both sexes from all the islands are 

 brought together and compared, the confusion at present obtaining 

 cannot be avoided. 



280. Huphina tamar, Wallace. 

 Bali ( Wallace and Doherty). 



281. Belenots java, Sparrman. 



Bali (Doherty and Fruhstorfer), Lombok (Fruhstorfer), Sambawa 

 (Doherty), Sumba (Pagenstecher). Recorded by Wallace from Bali and 

 Lombok as Pieris coronea, Cramer, which is a synonym. 



282. Appias albina, Boisduval. 



Bali (Doherty), Lombok (Fruhstorfer), Samba wa; Sumba (Doherty). 

 Under Appias paulina, Cramer, a species strictly confined to Ceylon, 

 Mr. Doherty has the following note : — " Two forms [of the male] of this 

 very puzzling group occurred both in Sumba and in Sambawa. One 

 was all white, with only a sleuder dark marginal line, resembling 

 A. albina [this is typical A. albino]. The other had the hindwing and 

 the apex of the forewing bright ochreons-yellow below, resembling 

 A. I'inkapura, Moore, but without the dark apex [on the upperside of 

 the forewing. In de Nieeville's opinion A. lankapura is a synonym of 

 A. paulina, and is therefore found only in Ceylon]. It generally had 

 a black or gray discal spot on the forewing." Dr. Wallace records 

 white females [de Niceville's Form I] from Lombok under " Tachyris" 

 paulina, Cramer. In Lombok three forms of the female occur, the 

 first is white on both surfaces, the second is white above and mostly 

 chrome-yellow below, the third is primrose-yellow on both surfaces. 

 Mr. de Nieeville calls the wholly white female Form I, and our Lombok 

 females agree well with the figures of " Catophaga neombo, Boisduval, " 

 in Moore's Lep. Cey., vol. i, pi. 1, figs. 3rt, 3b, female (1881). The 

 female which is white above and mostly chromc-vellow below, 



