ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. Ill 



BTotes upon a siiisill oolleotioii of ItllOPAI.OC'KRA made 

 by Kov. IJ. C IIoiir.v in the l!«Iand of Hainan, together 

 with descriptions of some apparently new species. 



BY REV. W. J, HOLLAND, M.A., PH.D. 



Oakland, Pittsburgh, Pa. 



I am* indebted to my esteemed friend, Rev. B. C. Henry, for tlie 

 privilege of adding to my collection a number of specimens of the 

 lepidopterous insects of Hainan collected by him upon the occasion 

 of a visit to the island in January of the past year. Between fifteen 

 and twenty years ago the late Robert Swinhoe visited Hainan and 

 made extensive collections, principally of the birds and mammals, 

 devoting but little attention to its insect fauna. Aside from a paper 

 by Mr. F, Moore in the " Proceedings of the Zoological Society of 

 London" for 1878, giving a list of the lepidoptera collected by Mr, 

 Swinhoe and a few incidental references to specimens taken by 

 Swinhoe and contained in the collection of Mr. Moore, I have failed 

 to discover anything bearing directly upon the entomology of the 

 country. The island is still to a great extent terra incognita to the 

 entomologist. The list of the species taken by Mr. Henry, which 

 follows, reveals, as might be expected, that the fauna of Hainan is 

 cjosely allied to that of the adjacent mainland. Unfortunately Mr. 

 Henry's efibrts to gain a knowledge of the lepidoptei-a of this inter- 

 esting region were interrupted by a violent attack of illness, and the 

 accidental loss of part of his collecting material. 



Family NYMPHALIDiE Swainson. 



Subfamily UANAIN.E, Bates. 



Geuus DAIVAIS Latr. 



1. Danais Aglea Cram., Pap. Exot. iv, t. 377, E. ; Marshall aud DeNicevillc, 

 Butt. India, Burmah and Ceylon, vol. i, p. 38, PL. vr, fig. 7. 



Several specimens, % and 9 • 



2. Danais Gaulaina Moore, .Vun. aud Mag Xat. Hist, series iv, vol. xx, 

 p. 43 (1877). 



One poor 9 . 



3. Danais L.ininiace Cnua., Pap. Exot. I, t. 59. D. E. ; M. and DeX. Butt. 

 India, B. and Ceylon, vol. i, p. 47. 



Several specimens % and 9 • 



4. Danais Oenntia Cram., Pap. Exot. III. t. 206. C. D. : Distant, Khop. 

 Malay, p. 18, tab. ii, fig.'*. 2 and 3. JI. aud DeN. 1. c. p. 52 (Dmiais PleJiippiis 

 auctorum, nee. Linnteus). 



Numerous specimens. 



