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Respecting the FRUHSTORFER COLLECTION 

 of BUTTERFLIES from lAVA Island. 



Very fine specimens, many types of EuRYTELLA, Ergolis, Euthalia. 



The Lycaenidae are very fine represented by about 1,300 specimens with about 150 types- 



The Java Collection is represented by 3 Cabinets with walnut pannel doors, containing 

 120 drawers with glass bottom. 



Georges Talbot 



The well known entomologist and explorer the Dr L Martin — Diessen, one of the best 

 connoisseurs of the Indo-Malayan Fauna — writes in "Iris" of Nov- oOth. H)22 : 



"Fruhstorfer devoted more than three years to entomological research in every part of 

 Java that island paradise, and he declared that his stay at Java had marked the beginning of 

 his success as a collector" — a career which, at the outset, he had found full of difficulty — and 

 that "the years spent in that island had been the happiest of his life and the most active, the 

 most memorable of his youth" Those who know Java, that earthly paradise, will sympathise 

 with him. FRUHSTORFER'S KNOWLEDGE OF THE FAUNA OF JAVA HAS NEVER 

 BEEN EXCELLED and even the Dutch who, after all, have possessed and exploited the island 

 for more than three hundred years have never produced anyone who could be compared 

 with him He was the first to recognize the remarkable difference which exists between the 

 fauna of the western part of the island where the rainfall is abundant and that of the dry 

 eastern part, and during those years he discovered a large number of new species and varieties 



The collection he formed at Java remained his most cherished possession. It was kept 

 separate, and was never amalgamated with the rest of his Indo-Malayan collection. There 

 was something touching in his love for all the creatures of that island which, compared with 

 those of the same group in the other islands, he always declared to be the most beautiful, the 

 most finely shaped and the most gorgeously coloured of all. 



His enthusiasm may have been justified in many cases, but it is difficult for anyone not 

 possessing his intimate knowledge of the Malay Archipelago to judge or to express an opinion. 



It was at Java that he discovered the only known specimen of gauroides, a species of 

 Elymnias which closely mimics an Ideopsis. No other specimen has ever been caught, either 

 by him or by anybody else. It is possible that this specimen belonged to a species which has 

 since become extinct and that Fruhstofer caught one of the last existing specimens; or perhaps 

 this animal may eventually be found to be an extremely rare dimorphous female of one of the 

 known species". 



Dr. L. Martin. 



