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and nearly all of them have a wide range, from the 
Himalayas through the mountains of Upper Burmah to the 
valley of the Yang-tse-kiang. This is evident from a com- 
parison of the list of Chinese. butterflies in Leech’s recently 
completed and most valuable work,* with the lists of Hima- 
layan and Malayan butterflies given in my paper on the 
Butterflies of Sikkim,+ where we find that, out of 477 species 
in China, excluding the Hesperiide and a few others which 
are quite abnormal in their distribution— 
145 belong to thirty-four genera which are highly charac- 
teristic of, and twenty-four of them absolutely con- 
fined to the sub-region. 
84 belong to thirty-six genera characteristic of the Indo- 
Malay region generally, of which two genera, 
Euthalia and Neptis, contain thirty-three species, 
leaving only fifty-one species to the remaining thirty- 
four genera. 
107 belong to genera of North Temperate type, but most 
of these (perhaps more than half) are confined to the 
highlands of East Tibet, which more properly form 
part of the North Temperate region. 
45 belong to genera such as Danais, Ypthima, Melanitis, 
Charaxes, Junonia, etc., which are common to the 
Ethiopian region, and 
96 belong to cosmopolitan genera. 
Out of the first category eight genera, all monotypic, are 
peculiar to China, namely, Mandarinia, Callarge, Palao- 
nympha, Isodelma, Timelaa, Amblopala, Davidina, and 
Sericinus. Luehdorfia is found elsewhere only in Japan. 
Besides these, the following genera only are not found in 
the Himalayas :— 
Acropthalmia, which occurs in the Philippines. 
Midea inthe United States. 
Polycena in Central Asia. 
Melanargia in Europe and West Asia. 
Phengaris in the Naga Hills. 
* The Butterflies of China, Japan, and Corea. London, 1892-94, by 
J. H. Leech. 
+ Elwes on the Butterflies of Sikkim, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1888, p. 269. 
