114 BUTTERFLIES OF BORNEO. 



Found in Sikkini, Assam, Tenasserim, Burma, Malay 

 Peninsula, Great Sunda Is., Bali, Banka. 



Sub-genus Dophla. 



178. Euthalia {Dophla) evelina, Stoll. 



Papilio evelina, Stoll, Cramer, Pap. Exot. V, p. 132, pi. 

 28, figs. 2, 2B. 



Sub-sp. E. evelina compta, Fruhst. 



Fruhstorfer divides the species into 1 1 races ranging 

 through India to Indo-China and the Malay Peninsula, 

 the Great Sunda Is., Nias, Philippines and Celebes. 

 The sub-species compta occurs in Burma, Tenasserim, 

 Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo. 



[The species is very partial to rotten fruit and I have 

 caught many specimens in mosquito-netting traps baited 

 with this butterfly delicacy.] 



Sub-genus Nora. 



The naturalist who attempts to clear up the confusion 

 in which this sub-genus is shrouded will have no easy 

 task to accomplish. In the past, species were described 

 from single male and female specimens in the most 

 reckless manner, whilst more modern authors appear 

 to have shirked a careful revision of the group yet have 

 not refrained from adding to the number of species in 

 it, and the result is — chaos. For my own part I can do 

 no more than give an annotated list of the species 

 found in Borneo ; still, such local lists are the necessary 

 preliminaries to an accurate revision of the entire group. 

 It may be remarked en passant that many of the cha- 

 racters whereby the sub-genus Nora can be distin- 

 guished from Euthalia in its restricted sense are rather 

 obscure e.g. the patch of glandular scales on the hind- 

 wing of the male is very variable and it occurs more- 

 over in many species of Euthalia ; in the absence of the 



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