416 L. de Niceville & Dr. L. Martin — Butterflies of Sumatra. [No. 3, 



Selesseh to Namoe Oekor, and as high as Soengei Batoe ; is a true 

 butterfly of the forest, settles on leaves with spread wings, and 

 has a decidedly weaker flight than Limenitis and JEuthalia. The sexes 

 differ very much in size, the female being always much larger than 

 the male ; often extremely small males are found. It is not a common 

 butterfly. 



187. Limenitis albomarginata, Weymer. 



L. albomarginata, Weymer, Stet. Ent. Zeit., vol. xlviii, p. 5, n. 3, pi. ii, fig. 2, 

 male (1887). 



L. albomarginata, Martin, Einige neue Tagschmetterlinge von Nordost- Sumatra, 

 pt. 2, p. 7, n. 7 (1895). 



L. hageni, Staudinger, Iris, vol. v, p. 452 (1892) ; idem, id., I.e., vol. vii, p. 342 

 (1894). 



Padang, "West Sumatra, Weymer. Staudinger. This species is 

 a very distinct local race of the Himalayan and Assamese L. danava, 

 Moore. It occurs only in Sumatra, and in our area is found only on the 

 Central Plateau, from whence every year a large number of males 

 were brought by the collectors, once only a single female, which 

 Dr. Martin has described (1. c.). As the sexes of this as well as 

 of other butterflies are produced in about equal numbers, it shews 

 clearly the skulking habits of the female that it should be so exces- 

 sively rare in collections. The same sex of L. danava is almost 

 equally rarely seen iu India. 



188. Limenitis daraxa, Doubleday and Hewitson. 



Doherty records this species from Larut Hill, Perak, Malay Penin- 

 sula, and describes L. agveya from the same hill, but found at 3,000 feet 

 lower elevation ( Journ. A. S. B., vol. lx, pt. 2, p. 176 (1891). L. daraxa 

 is much rarer in our area than the preceding species, and occurs in the 

 (same locality. Never more than two or three specimens are captured in 

 one year. 



189. Limenitis bockii, Moore. 



L. bockii, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1881, p. 308. 



Moore. Hagen as dudu. Grose Smith as dudu and bockii. Moore 

 describes this species from Sumatra, and as allied to L. dudu, West wood, 

 from North-Eastern India, differing in being smaller, with a broader 

 transverse white band. The size is unimportant, I possess smaller 

 specimens of L. dudu than of L. bockii ; but the discal band is certainly 

 broader, especially so on the fore wing. The i-arest of all the species of 

 Limenitis in our area, of which Dr. Martin has received during all the 

 period he was in Sumatra not more than ten specimens, nearly all of 



