344 Mr. R. Trimen’s Notes on the Butterflies of Mauritius. 
as one or more endemic species of existing birds, and its peculiar 
palm, ‘contains an entomological fauna of much interest, which 
probably includes some endemic species, and would, if duly in- 
vestigated, afford valuable data as to the eastward range of many 
African forms, as well as further evidence on the vewata questio 
of Indian affinities. 
In conclusion I will only remark as regards Bourbon and 
Mauritius, that the facts already placed on record afford the very 
strongest grounds for believing that those islands have received 
nearly all, if not the whole, of their Rhopalocera from Africa, 
through the intervening region of Madagascar. 
