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ctiuiitry at Koltii-tljiiwa. My favourite resort was the susiny 

 ])iithways, bordcreil by second growth f'oreHt of some size, 

 where niuiiy attmi'tive Miissfeinlas, eiiphiirbiareoiis trees and 

 shrubs, and thick clumps of the aromatii^ ami brightly varie- 

 gated Lantandi were always in flower. 



The Lmkina was one of the greatest favourites of mutii kimls 

 of insects ; beetles, bees, and butterflies were always present by 

 scores ; and I observed that they visited the different coloured 

 florets (|uite iudiscmuiuately. Of the last the swaHuw-tailed 

 species — PapiUo hramUf themw^ arychSf arjunUf and a hjvely 

 black-and-white species which is known as Papilio saturmts 

 —were specially abundant, but difiicult to secure, as they were 

 greatly persecuted by all the other species feeding on it^ — the 

 P/erklm and the dmgon-flies being their worst enemies* 

 They constantly sailed round and round in a timid way, as if 

 watching for. an opportunity to swoop in, but were often so 

 driven off that for half an hour at a time I have seen them 

 unable to make one successful visit. The beautiful taih,-d 

 Loxurasnml Apkufefis were also in abundance, wliile Hifjmhjimim 

 (momahi frcf|uen ted the thick jungle, Iloating out at intervals 

 into the open. ''This species offers the most remarkable 

 ease known amoug butterflies of a reversal of the usual sexual 

 colouring, the nude being always dull brown and the female 

 glossed with rich blue . . . The brilliant blue gloss causes the 

 female to resemble or mimic MitpJna midamm" (Wallace). 

 Mr. Butler ha.s shown me in the British Museum, however, 

 males with nearly as much blue as the females. It is 

 singular that no male of this species is yet known from Java. 

 Specimens in the British Museum^ named by Mr. AVallace ns 

 males of -4nowa/a,are not from Java, Undoubted males from 

 Malacca and lionieo have broad patches of blue towards the 

 border of the front wingi. The female Anomala from Java has 

 more blue than the specimens of the same sex from Borneo, 

 and it is not improbable that the Java male may have more 

 bkie than the Bornean. What appears to be a female, named 

 HijpolijmmsxmUmeana by ^Ir. Bulkir from * Indiai' corresponds 

 with the male K mmmaJa (of Wallace's description) in the 

 British j^lusoimi from Borneo. The Eupltea which these si>ecies 

 mimic is common to Indo-JIaliLHia. 



From Kotta-djavva I moved further westward to (Tunung- 



