Erebia ludlowi is discussed. Type locality "Kongobo Do-Re" should be "Kongbo, Dore" (N30° 25', E93° 48'), S. E. Tibet. Despite Warren's original description holotype is not deposited in N. H. M. The author could not trace where F. M. Bailey's main collection is deposited.

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This report demonstrates that the Black Swallowtail butterfly, Papilio protenor lays eggs with only visual stimuli. Female and male butterflies were released into a cage where yellow artificial flowers were placed. Peel of grapefruit was provided for oviposition. An artificial flower is shown in Fig.1 (a), (b). After four days, four mated females that antennae were cut were released into the cage where arrangement of artificial flowers is shown in Fig.2. Female butterflies laid eggs on the artificial flowers or the peel of grapefruit. Number of eggs laid by females is shown in Fig.3. A great many eggs are laid on the green artificial flowers in the experiment. These female butterflies lay eggs on the green plastic sheets with no oviposition stimulant. First female butterflies search for oviposition sites using visual clue. However, usually butterflies do not lay eggs with only visual stimuli. They need oviposition stimulant, chemical things to lay eggs. It is strange that the Black Swallowtail butterflies lay eggs on plastic sheets with no oviposition stimulant.

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Life cycle of Hypolymnas anomala, which does not inhabit Yaeyama Islands through the entire life stage, still remains unclear although it was frequently recorded as the wanderer species. I caught egg mass of this butterfly on the familiar host plant Piptrus arborescent on October 28, 2003 in Maesato, Ishigaki Island, and then succeeded in rearing of H.anomala larvae on the unfamiliar food plant Boehmeria niphonivera through the larval stage. Here I report the rearing records with some photographs.

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