488 L. de Niceville & Dr. L. Martin — Butterflies of Sumatra. [No. 3, 
Upper Burma, and by Colonel C. T. Bingham at the top of Mooleit 
mountain and at a lower elevation in the Dannat Range, both 
in Middle Tenasserim, Burma. The Burmese and Sumatran speci¬ 
mens in our collection quite agree, and would probably be called 
var. amarantha , Mitis, by the describer, who gives Darjiling as the 
habitat of that form. In Sumatra it is very rare, occurring only at 
Soengei Batoe and on the Central Plateau, Dr. Martin in thirteen 
years collecting only obtained ten specimens, of which seven were 
captured in June and July, and one each in January, March, and October. 
All these specimens shew but little variation in colouring and markings. 
The single female Dr. Martin possesses has the ground-colour slightly 
lighter than in the male, more brown than black, the spots on both 
wings are larger and more yellow, in the male they are whitish, and 
the anal area is pale yellow instead of dark yellow as in the male. 
Dr. Martin gives the expanse of his male specimens as 1*8 to 2'4, of 
the female 23 inches, hence they average somewhat less than specimens 
from the Eastern Himalayas. Since the above was in type I have seen 
Heer P. C. T. Snellen’s note on this species in Tijd. voor Ent., 
vol. xxxviii, p. 26 (1895), in which he calls P. chrysorrhcea a small local 
variety of P. belladonna. 
526. Delias glauce, Butler. 
Snellen as belisama. Hagen as belisama, and belisama , var. glauce. 
Wallace as belisama. Staudinger as belisama. Kirby as belisama. 
Grose Smith. The true D. belisama of Cramer, is, I believe, confined 
to Java, while D. glauce takes its place in Borneo and Sumatra. It 
is common on the Central Plateau round the Battak kampongs, where 
it frequents the red flowers of the “ Datap ” trees (Erytlirina indica, 
Lam.), according to Dr. Hagen. Dr. Martin has obtained a few 
specimens also from Soengei Batoe and even from Bekantschan, where 
they may perhaps have been carried by one of the frequent heavy 
storms that occur in the mountains. The female is very melanic in its 
colouring, as the white areas on the upperside of both wings in the 
male are very greatly reduced in the female. It occurs most commonly 
from May to July, but it flies in every month in the year. 
527. Delias hypareie, Linnaeus. 
Hagen. Wallace. Common over the whole of our area, even on 
the Central Plateau, mostly in orchards near houses, as the species 
of Viscum on which the larva feeds grows very frequently upon fruit- 
trees, especially on Anonaceae. If flies throughout the year, but is most 
abundant in May. The larva is yellow and hairy; the pupa is dark 
