aOO LLOYD S NATURAL HISTORY 



Sumatra, 



There is a Dutch work, Veth's " Midden Sumatra," which 

 includes a long article on the Lepidoptcra by Snellen (Leyden, 

 1880). 



Nias. 



This is a small island near Sumatra ; and the Butterflies are 

 described by Napoleon M. Kheil in his " Rhopalocera der 

 Insel Nias" (Berlin, 1884). It is a thin quarto, illustrated 

 by five photographic plates, which are much better executed 

 than photographic plates of insects usually are; for this mode 

 of illustration is rarely successful in the case of Lcpidoptera, 



A us fro - Mala) v? ii Region . 



Several members of the French exploring voyages during the 

 early part of the present century made considerable collections of 

 insects in this region. The most important of these, as regards 

 Lepidoptera, was that formed under Admiral Dumont d'Urville, 

 who was himself interested in Entomology. They furnished 

 materials for a volume on Lepidoptcra^ by Boisduval, published 

 in 1832 among the official reports of the " Voyage de 

 I'Astrolabe," under the secondary title of " Faune Entomo- 

 logique de I'Ocean Pacifique : Lepidopteres." The report 

 on the Entomological collections of the "Voyage de la 

 Coquille," by Guerin-Meneville, was published about the 

 same time. 



There is an important series of papers on the Lepidoptera 

 of the Eastern Islands of the Malay Archipelago by Dr. A. 

 Pagenstecher, in the "Jahrbuch des Nassauischen Vereins 

 fiir Naturkunde," published at Wiesbaden. 



Montrouzicr's " Essai sur la Faune de File de Woodlark, ou 

 Moiou," published in the " Annalcs de la Societc d'Agricul- 



