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XVIII. THE LEPIDOPTERA OF THE ISLE OF PINES, 



BEING A LIST OF THE SPECIES COLLECTED ON 



THE ISLAND BY MR. J. L. GRAF AND MR. G. A. 



LINK, SR., IN 1910 AND 1912-1913. 



By \V. J. Holland. 



The present paper is the first of a series of lists in which it is pro- 

 posed to enumerate the species of insects belonging to various orders, 

 which were collected upon the Isle of Pines by the party of gentlemen, 

 who went thither in the spring of 1910 in the interest of the Carnegie 

 Museum, and by Mr. G. A. Link, Sr., during his stay upon the island 

 from the spring of 1912 to the beginning of June, 1913. IMr. Link 

 was a member of the party which made collections in 1910, but the 

 entomological specimens, which were brought home at that time, 

 were principally assembled by Mr. J. L. Graf. They consisted chiefly 

 of Lepidoptera and Odonata. Mr. Link during his stay of more than 

 a year upon the island devoted himself almost entirely to collecting 

 birds, as is stated by Mr. W. E. C. Todd in his paper upon the avifauna 

 of the island, which is published in this volume of the Annals. Inci- 

 dentally he gathered specimens of such insects as he encountered at 

 times when he was not otherwise engaged. The specimens in the 

 possession of the Carnegie Museum are under the circumstances the 

 result of more or less desultory collecting, and seem scarcely to ade- 

 quately represent what must be a rather rich fauna, if we are justified 

 in drawing conclusions from what we know of the wealth of insect-life 

 which is found in Cuba. The lepidoptera, upon which the writer is 

 now reporting, are, however, the first taken on the island which have 

 been systematically listed, and the following pages may lay foundations 

 for more complete lists in the future. 



A brief visit to the United States National Museum about the 

 middle of May, 1916, afforded an opportunity to look over the collec- 

 tions from the Antilles, which are there preserved, and acknowledg- 

 ment is due to the various gentlemen in charge and particularly to 

 Mr. August Busck for the very kind assistance which he accorded the 

 writer in facilitating access to the Lepidoptera contained in that 



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