1895.] L. de Niceville & Dr. L. Martin— Butterflies of Sumatra. 505 



Snellen in Tijd. voor Ent., vol. xxxviii, p. 24, pl.i, fig. 3, male (1895), as 

 Tieris •panda, Godart, var. 



561. Hebomoia borneensis, Wallace. 



Grose Smith as glaucippe. Snellen as glaucippe. Hagen as glait- 

 cippe, var. sumatrana, Hagen ; and glaucippe, var. sumatrensis, Hagen. 

 Wallace as glaucippe. Distant as glaucippe. As will be seen above, 

 all authors have recorded this species as H. glaucippe, Linnaeus, except 

 Dr. Hagen, who in his first Sumatran paper calls it H. glaucippe, var. 

 sumatrana, and in his second paper H. glaucippe, var. sumatrensis. for the 

 reason that other local races have been named H. celebensis, Wallace, 

 H. borneensis, Wallace, H. philippensis, Wallace, and H.javanensis, Wallace 

 [nee javaensis, Hagen]. Hut Dr. Hagen's names cannot stand, as the 

 Sumatran race is identical with the Bornean one which has already been 

 named, and has the orange apical area on the upperside of the forewing 

 in the male reduced to a patch half as large as that found in true 

 H. glaucippe from North India, Burma, and the Malay Peninsula. 

 The South Indian and Ceylonese form strangely enough agrees with 

 the Javan, and should therefore be known as H. javanensis, Wallace. 

 IT. borneensis is rare in our area. Dr. Martin has only once at Namoe 

 Oekor captured a specimen himself, and Dr. Hagen records only two 

 specimens from Sumatra. These three specimens were observed by their 

 captors to settle quite suddenly on a low shrub with folded wings, having 

 descended from a high and rapid flight. From Selesseh, Bohorok, and the 

 outer ranges of the Battak mountains a few specimens have been ob- 

 tained, including two females only ; but on the western boundary 

 of our area it must be very common, as the Gayoe collectors brought 

 in hundreds of males. It flies from March to August, but is most abun- 

 dant in May, 



562. Nepheronia Valeria, Cramer. 



Wallace. Staudinger. Hagen. Semper as lutescens. N. valeiia 

 was originally described from a male from Java. N. lutescens, Butler, 

 was originally described from a male from Borneo. Wallace, while re- 

 taining the Bornean form under N. Valeria, says that the male has the 

 forewing rather more elongated than in the typical Javan form, with 

 a slightly concave outer margin. I have a large series of both sexes of 

 N. Valeria from the Malay Peninsula (called N. lutescens by Distant), 

 Sumatra, Nias, Java, and Borneo. I find both sexes in all localities 

 slightly variable, and I do not think it is possible to create (in the sense 

 of separating them off into local races with distinctive names) loc.il 

 races for them. N. Valeria is a very quick flying and restless insect, 



