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Show m MB. O.S1-.V.N ON OENWBOI-raRA VICTOR!*. 01'. 7> No. ,3. Hi-U*" 'r^SS'S^ Hi* and "***£££££ ScTof I'^ecipUou, sand-t n f S s'oml B O O to high, and are entered from the .«•»«.*. AT-Bmh-rSng lowered down from the top by ropes. N., ULD ^^cs^ftalnableeave. on the Semhak-on K , ^ & C g b B S ctntrv^h ITaUed foroefas son.e of the head-hunting tribes are hostile. Nn 1<5 Some caves at W A L E I G H - W A L E I G H , Kinoram River a tri^-j;-0?rB„»Son R-s»r«^xz watershed; these were visited some years aao uy Frank Hatton. No 16 M A N T A N A N I . These caves are situated in a group of unmLli k HandTof that name, about 20 miles off the north-west fnf Borneo Both white and black nests are taken the coilec- ^ beLg in the haul of two Borneo tribes who collect in alternate seasons. I have now enumerated all those caves that are known at present Doubtllss this vast territory contains others perhaps richer than Ses and in the course of time, when the country is more fully explored w shall be able to fix their position definitely on the map of British North Borneo. 6. A Note on Ornithoptera victoria?, Gray. By OSBERT SALVIN, M.A., F.R.S. [Received February 7, 1888.] (Plate IV.) At the meeting of the Society held on the 1st of March last the pleasure of exhibiting a male specimen of an Ornithoptera, from the island of Maleita, one of the Solomon group. This specimen Mr. Godman and I considered to belong to the male of the long-known 0. victorice, the description of which was based upon a female example obtained by J. Macgillivray, but of which the locality was not recorded. The females, of which specimens were also exhibited, from Maleita Island agree with the type, hence our determination of the male. The male and the underside of the female have since been figured by Mr. Henley G. Smith, on the first plate of his new work ,rRhopalocera Exotica,' the male having been described in the June number of the ' Annals and Magazine of Nat. Hist.' of last vear (1887). . . ,. Mr. Woodford, the enterprising naturalist who captured these specimens, has since returned to England, bringing with him a large |
