1895.] L. de Niceville & Dr. L. Martin — Butterflies of Sumatra. 387 



it prefers. Often met with in pepper gardens ; plentiful at Batoe 

 Gadjah near the Begoemit river. It has a very weak flight, often settles, 

 and is easily captured. It is very variable in both the shade of the 

 ground-colour of the upperside and the extent of the white on the 

 underside, some specimens having the white bands fully twice as broad 

 as others. 



85. *Ragadia makuta, Horsfield. 



Mr. Moore records B. crista, Hiibner, from the Malay Peninsula 

 and Borneo, and B. makuta, Horsfield, from Sumatra and Java. I have 

 an extensive series of Bagadias from all these localities, and while these 

 specimens shew great variation in the colour of the ground and the 

 respective width of the bands, it appears to me obvious that they all 

 represent one species. Until tbe publication of vol. ii of Mr. Moore's 

 " Lepidoptera Indica," p. 113 (1893), B. makuta was always given as a 

 synonym of B. crisia, and Mr. Moore in that work does not give his 

 reasons for separating them. 



86. Eritbs elegans, Butler. 



Hagen. The rarest of the tliree Sumatran species of the genus. 



87. Erites Argentina, Butler. 



Grose Smith as maclura [sic]. Hagen. Somewhat rare. 



88. Erites angttlaris, Moore. 



Hewitson as madura [sic], var. The commonest species of 

 the genus occurring in Sumatra. E. medura, Horsfield, is confined, as 

 far as our present knowledge extends, to Java and Palawan in the 

 Philippines. All the species of Erites are true forest butterflies, and 

 they are not only found in the large virgin forests, but also in younger 

 jungle with plenty of grass under foot. At an elevation of 1,200 feet 

 they disappear. On the wing they remind one of Bagadia, as they also 

 have a very weak flight, and often settle with closed wings. It is a 

 very interesting fact that in such a relatively small area as are the 

 districts of Deli, Langkat, and Serdang, three quite distinct species of 

 this rather small genus should be found. {Confer de Niceville, Jouru. 

 A.-S. B., vol. lxii, pt. 2, p. 1 (1893). 



89. Melanitis ismene, Cramer. 



Hewitson as Gyllo leda. Snellen as Gyllo leda. Hagen as leda and 

 ismene. Distant as leda and ismene. The dry-season form (ismene) and 

 wet-season form (determinata, Butler), occur together at the same time 

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