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coffee, the butterflies have been deprived of their head-quarters in their favourite quiet woods. — vedana vcdanu. 
Frulist. (74 a) inhabits the Batu Islands near Nias off the south-west coast of Sumatra. Scheme of 
markings somewhat as in obscura from Mindanao, but the ground-colour purer Avhite, the subapical area 
somewhat more extended, upper surface of both wings without black-brown or velvety brown tinge, vedana 
is, nevertheless, one of the darkest forms of leuconoe. Of the original yellow colouring of the wings it. only 
retains a slight tinge, inclining to greenish on the forewing and a delicate yellow shade on the basal half 
of the hindwing. Upper surface of the forewing: The upper part of the cell and the areas between the 
cell-wall and the submedian densely scaled with black. The black patch at the submedian the size of a 
pea, distally strongly pointed. The black transverse band in the cell unusually broad. The black distal 
border very broad, hence the arrows of the postmedian band confluent near the radials and at the anal 
angle. — enganoensis Doh. differs from vedana principally in the broader black markings, which is parti- enganoensis 
cularly noticeable on the underside of the hindwing. Engano. Flies in April. 
H. electra, hitherto only known from Mindanao, where it occurs in two local races, differs from 
leuconoe chiefly in the apex of the forewing projecting as in lynceus. Both wings suffused with yellowish to 
the distal margin, the black cell-spot of the forewing does not extend to the costal border, nor posteriorly 
to the cell-wall. • —- electra Semp., of which only 5 and 4 have yet been brought to Europe, comes electra. 
from Taganito in East Mindanao, where it was observed from the end of May to the beginning of June. 
The $ bears more extended black spots on both wdngs than the U and approximates more to the leuconoe- 
type. — harmonia subsp. nov. is a local race discovered by Dr. Platen in South-East Mindanao, with harmonic. 
the upper surface of both wings essentially darkened and still broader' black bands. 
H. blanchardi inhabits Celebes and its satellite islands in a series of well separated races. On Muna 
and on the Tukan-Besi Islands off the south-east of Celebes much darkened forms occur, such as are 
also known from the Andamans, Pegu and New Guinea. All the forms of blanchardi have in common a 
broad valve, deeply excised distally and armed with 10—1*2 irregular serrate points. In the ■idea-group the 
proximal costal patch is much reduced, in the races from Celebes and the neighbourhood it is completely 
absent and the distal patch sometimes connects the costal and subcostal as a diffuse spot. The butterfly 
is everywhere common and in South Celebes they even frequented the villages, where they fluttered 
round the huts of the natives, hiding themselves in the bamboo thickets at night. Larva ringed with 
black and yellow, above the spiracles a broad, dull yellow lateral band, which is inteirupted by the black 
transverse bands. Head, venter and legs black, as well as the filiform appendages on segments 2, 3, 5 
and 11. — marosiana Frulist. (75 c) is characterized by a brown-green tinge, which sometimes covers the marosiana. 
surface of both wings and is most distinctly present in the The intraneural arrows very long and 
slender, only on the forewing sometimes widened. The black cell-spot of the forewing never reaches the 
costal margin. Both sexes show in side-light a bright violet reflection. South Celebes, especially the 
waterfall of Maros, where they often rested in copula on twigs in the woods and the pairs could be easily 
taken with the hands. Sometimes also they flutter round tall forest-trees, as I observed especially in the 
rainy season (January, February), when they are very rare, whilst from May to November they occur in 
great abundance. Valve with one very large dorsal tooth, whilst in blanchardi March. (= tondano blanchardi. 
Vollenh.) the distal part is uniformly dentate. — blanchardi is a lighter form, with the distal part of the 
cell and the median area of both wings pure vitreous white, the brown tinge confined to the basal part 
and the marginal area, the cell-spots much reduced. Under surface almost pure white, the intraneural 
streaks thin, without a trace of cuff-shaped widening, cell likewise only quite finely striped with brown. 
North Celebes, apparently rarer than marosiana, as it is never brought to Europe in any large numbers. 
Also at Toli-Toli I took but few examples in November—December. — garunda subsp. nov. I have garunda. 
hitherto thought that the East Celeban race should be united with kuehni from Bangkai. But as accord¬ 
ing to Kuhn’s figures (Iris 1887) the larvae differ considerably, I propose the name garunda for the 
form from the whole east of the island, which is much lighter especially in the $. The principal difference 
from marosiana and tondanci consists in the deep black instead of brown intraneural stripes and the more 
sharply defined distal border of both wings on a lighter ground. On the under surface of the forewing the 
brown dentate band is likewise replaced by a black one, the awl-shaped markings of the hindwing are 
much more delicate. Collected in Central Celebes in July and August by Doherty, at Bonthain by 
Ribbe and at Tombugo by Kuhn, everywhere common. Larva according to Kuhn varying locally, 
but in general similar to that of malabarica. Judging from a drawing of Kuhn’s, the larva of the East 
Celebes race bears on all the segments lateral red patches of equal size above the stigmata, but that of 
the island of Bangkai only six large anterior and posterior patches and two small dot-like ones in the 
middle of the body. Moreover in the latter the black rings predominate, in garunda the white ones. Pupa 
metallic golden with dark brown margins to the wing-cases and the abdomen, as well as rows of black 
dots. In January the caterpillar is very common, especially on rainy days. — djampeana Frulist. (75 c) djampeana 
closely approaches the preceding and differs in the still more pronounced black cell-spots, which in U? 
reach both the costal margin and the cell-wall, the intraneural stripes are broader, the cell-spot is nearly 
