40 [tebruai-y, 



One specimen, perhaps slightly immature. The sparsely, con- 

 spicuously punctate, alutaceous, glabrous upper surface distinguishes 

 this species from all the allied forms, the following excepted. It is 

 possible that the vestiture of the upper surface is abraded. 



(To he continued.) 



A short criticism of a paper on Bornean Rliopaloccra by Mr. J. C. Moidton. — 

 Mr. Moulton has kindly sent me a copy of a paper published in the Sarawak 

 Museum Journal, Vol. ii, No. 6, 1915, entitled "The Butterflies of Borneo, 

 with notes on their geographical distribution, and keys for identification," 

 The first three pages, numbered 197-199, contain many inaccuracies, and to 

 prevent entomologists interested in the butterflies of the country from being 

 misled as to facts, I think it well to make the following corrections and remarks. 

 Mr. Moulton commences with " The earlier lists of Bornean butterflies appeared 

 between 1887 and 1896 . . . ." This is not the case. The first list of Bornean 

 butterflies was published by Mr. Herbert Druce in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1873, 

 and contained an account of a portion of the large collections sent to this 

 country by Mr., afterwards Sir, Hugh Low, with descriptions of new species and 

 two coloured plates. A few lines further on Mr. Moulton writes : " The present 

 writer [Mr. Moulton] continued the work by publishing a part on the Lycaenidae, 

 300 species . . . ." thus entirely ignoring two previously pviblished papers by 

 myself, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1895 and 1896, on the same subject — the first 

 bringing the number of Bornean species of this family [71] as recorded by 

 Mr. Herbert Druce to about 220, and the second increasing this total to about 

 262. The 1895 paper consists of pages 556-627, and four coloured plates ; the 

 1896 paper, pp. 650-683, with three coloiu-ed plates. The first paper includes 

 descriptions and coloured figures of some 58 new forms, whilst the second 

 contains descriptions and figures of some 19 new forms — the Arhopalae by 

 Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker. On p. 199 Mr. Moulton writes: "More general 

 works, like .... and Staudinger's ' Schmetterlinge das Inseln Philippinischen,' 

 etc., contain references to Bornean species, but they are too well known to 

 need mention." Staudinger never published a book with such a title. 

 Mr. Moulton probably intends to refer to the work of that name published 

 by G. Semper, 1886-1892. Mr. Moulton then proceeds to give what he calls 

 the " Bibliography," which is, of covu-se, very incomplete, and principally 

 enumerates paj^ers by J. C. Moulton and E. Shelford. 



I have not seen the lists published by Messrs. W. B. Pryer and D. Cator 

 in the British North Borneo Herald in 189-1, and by Mr. E. Bartlett in the 

 Sarawak Gazette, 1896. Both these publications appear to be newspapers, and it 

 is to be regretted that any entomologist at the latter end of the nineteenth 

 century should publish desci-iptions of new insects in periodicals of this kind. 



Mr. Moulton would deserve the gratitude of his fellow-workers if he would 

 either re-puljlish these lists in some entomological magazine, or collect and 



