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



Kumaon to Assam and in Burma, also recorded from Java. Dr. Martin 

 in "Einige neue Tagsclimetterlinge von Nordost-Sumatra," pt. 2, p. 7, 

 (1895), records G. cyanee from Burma, but probably in error, as far as 

 I know it is confined to N.-E. Sumatra. All the species of Ghersonesia 

 in Sumatra occur only in forests, and unlike true Gyrestes never go to 

 roads or moist places, but keep to low bushes and rest on the underside 

 of the leaves. They fly weakly and are easily captured. Nearest to 

 the sea, plentiful near Laboean, appears G. rahria, Moore. Higher up, 

 from Namoe Oekor to Bekantschan, occurs the small G. peraka, Distant. 

 From Bekantschan to the Central Plateau fly G. cyanee and G. nicevillei, 

 Martin. C. intermedia, Martin, is confined to the North-Western limits 

 of our area, as all the specimens were obtained from the Gayoe col- 

 lectors. G. rahria and C. cyanee are the common species, G. peraka 

 and G. intermedia are very rare, and the most beautiful and distinct 

 C. nicevillei is the rarest of all. 



250. Kallima bcxtoni, Moore. 



Snellen as paralecta. Hagen as paralecta. Both sexes of this 

 species were originally described from Sumatra; it occurs also in the 

 Malay Peninsula at Perak and Sungei Ujong, and again in Borneo. 

 The apex of the forewing in the female is not produced into a long 

 point in this species as it is in many others. I was incorrect in stating 

 in the Gazetteer of Sikhim, p. 146, n. 226 (1894) that the Sumatran 

 Kallimahke the Javan K. paralecta, Horsfield, has a yellow-banded male 

 and a bluish-white-banded female, both sexes being alike in this parti- 

 cular. When writing the paragraph in question, I had yellow males 

 and bluish-white females unly from Sumatra, so came to the perhaps 

 natural conclusion that the phenomenon which is unique in the Javan 

 occurs also in the Sumatran species. Since then I have obtained both 

 sexes of both the Sumatran species of Kallima, and find that the 

 opposite sexes of each are alike. K. btixtoni is always a rare insect in 

 Deli occurrino- from Selesseh to Bekantschan. It is very fond of 

 imbibing the sap from wounded trees. The Malay and Javan collectors 

 call it "Koepoe Bandera, the Flag Butterfly," as its red and blue 

 colours resemble the same colours in the Dutch tricolour. 



251. Kallima spiridiva, Grose Smith. 



K. spiridiva, Grose Smith, A Naturalist's Wanderings, p. 274(1885); K. spiridion, 

 Grose Smith and Kirby, Khop Ex., pi. Kallima i, figs. 1, 2, male (1892). 



Grose Smith. Female differs from the male only in the hindwing 

 on the upperside being paler, more brown ; and in the forewing having 

 the apex produced into a somewhat short point, half the length of that 



