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LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



Oriental Regiojis : 

 Asia, exdudijig India, South Chitia, Indo- China, and the- 

 Philippines and Indo-Malayan Islands. 



As some of the books which must be discussed here trench 

 upon the Indo-Malayan region proper, it is better to group 

 them under a more general heading. 



Persia. 

 A little book by Bienert, called " Lepidopterologische 

 Ergebnisse einer Reise nach Persien in den Jahren 1858 und 

 1859 " (Leipzig, 1870) gives an outline of the subject. 



Tnrhestan. 



Erschoff's work on the Lepidoptcra obtained by Fedchenko, 

 and published in the official reports on the expedition, con- 

 tains coloured figures of many new and interesting species ; 

 but, except the Latin diagnoses, the book is printed entirely in 



Russian. 



Central Asia, &-r. 



The first six volumes of Romanoff's fine work, *' Memoires 

 sur les Lepidopteres," published by H.LH. the Grand Duke 

 Nicholas Mikhailovitch Romanoff, are devoted chiefly, though 

 not exclusively, to monographs on the Lepiaoptera of outlying 

 portions of the Russian Empire and the adjoining territories. 

 The most important of these is vol. iv. (1890), wb.ich is 

 entirely occujjied by an essay by Groum-Grschima'ilo on " Le 

 Pamir et sa Faune Lc[)idopterologique." 



Auinrland. 



There are two interesting works on the lepidoptera of this 

 district, both ilustrated with coloured plates : Mcnetries' work 

 on the IcpiJopiera, published in Schrenk's '• Reisen und 



