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2. Vadebra macleari. 



Vadebra macleari, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1887, p. 522, fig. 1. 



Flying Fish Cove; August to iS'ovember, 1897; March, 1898. 



One nearly perfect female ^as obtained, whicli (in the character 

 of its primaries) shows rather more resemblance to the female of 

 P. sepulchralis of Java than do the males ; seventeen males were 

 secured. 



SATYEIN^. 



3. Melanitis ismene, var. determinata. 



Melanitis deter minata, Butler, Proc. Ent. Soc, 1885, p. vi. 



One female of the wet-season phase (not dated). 



This species has an enormous range, and may have reached the 

 island from Java ; it is the Indo-Malayan insect, and does not show 

 the characteristics of M. leda (which occurs in no part of India, 

 Burma, Ceylon, or Malaysia). 



NYMPHALI]S^JE. 



4. Charaxes andrewsi, sp.n. (PI. IX, Fig. 8.) 



More nearly related to C. ])yrrliu8 from Amboina than to any 

 other species of the genus, but altogether a far more smoky- 

 coloured insect on the upper surface ; all the white markings on 

 the primaries of C. pyrrhus are here represented by more or less 

 buff -coloured spots ; the internal patch, bounded above by the 

 second median branch, diffused, and more or less heavily irrorated 

 with black scales ; the secondaries are much darker than in 

 C. pyrrhus, the central whitish band more shai^ly defined, and 

 almost always abruptly abbreviated, so that it rarely descends 

 below the second subcostal branch ; the greyish-lavender markings 

 of C. pyrrhus entirely wanting ; the black outer border extended 

 inwards, so as to cover nearly half the wing-surface ; a submarginal 

 ochreous band, broken by grey - greenish streaks, bordering the 

 extremities of the nervures. 



The pattern and colouring of the under-surface is much more 

 like that of C. Jupiter (from Duke of York Island, the Solomon 

 Islands, and jS^ew Guinea) ; it differs, however, in the slenderness 

 of all the black markings, the much smaller patch across the end of 

 the discoidal cell of the primaries, and the much reduced, or wholly 

 obliterated, patch below the cell ; on the secondaries, the red 

 patches are brighter and somewhat broader ; the white submarginal 

 spots are bordered externally with bluish-lavender, and the 

 interrupted ochreous band is brighter and better defined ; expanse 

 of wings, (^ 87-92mm., $ 106-112mm. 



