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V. TJie moths of Burma. Part I. By Colonel Charles 

 SwiNHOE, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



[Read February 5th, 1890.] 



Plate VI. 



This paper is the first attempt yet made at a compre- 

 hensive list of the moths of the Burman region. Mr. 

 Moore has recorded two or three lists of Lepidoptera 

 from Tenasserim and Mergui containing some moths ; 

 and Mr. Butler has also recorded a few moths from 

 Moulmein. In Mr. Walker's catalogue of the moths of 

 the British Museum there are but three references to 

 Burma ; but Mr. Butler advised me to examine the 

 register of the moths from Archdeacon Clerk's collection 

 in the museum, and there we find that all the moths 

 recorded in Walker's catalogue as from the East Indies, 

 and from Hindustan, from Archdeacon Clerk's collection, 

 are from Moulmein ; and amongst them are no less than 

 93 of Walker's tj^pes. 



Before leaving India I had the opportunity of going 

 over the collections of moths of the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta, and of the Phayre Museum, Rangoon, and 

 took many notes concerning Burman moths; and through 

 the great kindness of Mr. Noble, the Curator of the 

 Phayre Museum, I have received for examination a large 

 series of Burman moths, carefully labelled with localities 

 and dates, and have thus been enabled to record a list 

 containing 662 species, including 7 new genera, and 107 

 new species. 



I have to thank Lord Walsingham, who has kindly 

 identified some of the Tineina, and has been so good as 

 to describe a new species of Grapholitha for this paper ; 

 and I have also to thank Mr. Warren for giving me for 

 publication his MS. descriptions of 4 new genera of 

 Pi/rales, and 4 new species represented in my Burman 

 collection. The types of all the new species will, as 

 usual, be presented to the British Museum. 



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