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AN EXPEDITION TO MOUNT BATU LAWI. 
Hoaxylides tharis, Hub. 
A female from Limbang, June. Common in Sarawak 
and widely distributed over Indo-Malaya. 
Sithon nedymond, Cram. 
A fine female, Mt. Derian, alt. 4,500 ft., May 26th. This 
species is rare in Sarawak. Also found in Burma, Malay 
Peninsula, Sumatra and Java. 
Rapala varuna, Horsf. 
Limbang River and Madihit, May 16th, 21st, and June 
6th. Distributed over India and Malaya. 
Rapala pheretima, Hew. 
Limbang, June. Distributed over India and Malaya. 
Rapala xenophon, Fab. 
From Kuala Madalam, Limbang River to the Madihit, 
May 11th to 21st. Distributed over India and Malaya. 
Rapala barthema, Dist. 
Salindong, June 11th. Also occurs in the Malay Penin- 
sula, 
PAPILIONIDAE. 
Delias metarete, Bult. 
Two males from Madihit, May 21st, and Salindong, June 
12th. Principally found in mountainous districts in Sarawak. 
The species is confined to Malay Peninsula (including 
Lower Tenasserim), Sumatra and Borneo. 
Delias hermione, ni. sp. 
~ Mr. Shelford has sent me a manuscript description of this 
species based on a single specimen taken on Mt. Matang. He 
writes that it is the Bornean representative of Orphne, Wall. 
It will be fully described in the “ Butterflies of Borneo ” now 
in process of publication,* so the following brief description 
will suffice now. 
Male. Upperside. Milky white (as in D. cornelia, Vol- 
lenhoven), with narrow fuscous edging along costa apex and 
hind-margin in fore-wing; veins of fore-wing darkened. 
Underside. Fore-wing. Fuscous with greyish suffusion 
over basal half including the inner margin, two spots of same 
colour below costa and beyond cell three more exterior to those, 
and two small whiter spots between the first and second, and 
second and third median nervules, the latter linear and shghtly 
shifted inwards. Hind-wing. Dark fuscous with the follow- 
**°A List of the Butterflies of Borneo’’ Parts I. & Il. Nymphalide, by 
R. Shelford, published in the Journal of the Str. Br., Roy. Asiatic Society 1904- 
5, and Part I0l. Lycaenide by J. C. Moulton in the same publication 1911. 
Jour. Straits Branch 
