ALBERT

Description: Part of the butterfly collection of Mr. P. Zondervan, who died in a Japanese camp, was saved from destruction during the Japanese occupation and the post-war troubles and finally came into my hands. The material is for the greater part still in an excellent condition and contains many interesting forms. The number of specimens is small, as it was Mr. Zondervan\'s habit to mount only one pair of any new species he collected. The bulk so remained in papers and these all got lost.\nHere follows an account of some interesting Pieridae.\nAppias (paulina) urania (Wall.) Tachyris urania, Wallace, "Eastern Pieridae", Trans. ent. Soc. 6 (3) 3 (1867), Tondano, mountains of N. Celebes (\xe2\x99\x82).\nAppias urania, Martin, D. ent. Zeits. Iris, 91, 1919. 1 \xe2\x99\x82, Tondano, 17.7.1939, 1 \xe2\x99\x80, Tondano, 9.1937; 1 \xe2\x99\x82, var. albata Hopff., Tondano, 22.12.1939.\nThe \xe2\x99\x80 seems to be very rare, though it shows up in rather good numbers in other places of the paulina area in the favourable season, which is at the end of the wet monsoon.\nIt would have been waste of paper to mention these captures, were it not that Mr. Zondervan captured another \xe2\x99\x82 specimen of the paulina complex which is so deviating from the above that anybody first seeing it would conceive it as belonging to a distinct species. It represents the leis (Hbn.) group of paulina (Cram.) in the Celebes district, just as urania Wall., together with some local races from the Lesser Sunda Is., is the general representative in the Archipelago. In other words, there has been some overlapping in Celebes, and one more species duplex must be added to the

Description: As a result of a trip which I made to S. and C. Celebes in the middle of the year 1936 I am now much pleased to describe a new Brahmaea form, which was sent in by a native collector in one male specimen only. Though abundantly different from Continental species one is forced to see at once the very near relationship between this new form and Brahmaea hearseyi White, as a subspecies of which I will describe it here.\nBrahmaea hearseyi celebica nov. subspec. (figs. 1 and 2). \xe2\x99\x82. Small (wing length 58 mm only). Upperside: groundcolour light greyish buff as in typical hearseyi marked with unsharp brown undulated lines and dark spots much like in that subspecies, but different in the following points: the undulated area of fore and hind wings is filled up with dull uniformous light greyish buff between the undulated lines, whereas typical hearseyi shows a more vivid buff and is bordered basally with a thin white line at each interspace; the inwardly directed points of the undulated lines, which are sharp in hearseyi, are blunt or even rounded in celebica; the marginal parts of both wings are monotonous greyish, but the subapical part of the forewing shows an ochraceous border outwardly and backwardly of the big flat ocellar spot, which ochraceous border is followed inwardly by a faint white zigzag line beneath the elongate deep black apical spot; the white dentate lines which divide the big apical ocellar spot of hearseyi into some 7 parallel bands are reduced to faint white vein spots in celebica but the thin black line of the basal part of that ocellus which runs parallel to the white lines in hearseyi, is threefold and continuous in celebica;