﻿than 
  seventeen 
  butterflies, 
  including 
  such 
  conspicuous 
  forms 
  

   as 
  Papilio 
  erechtheus, 
  Don., 
  and 
  macleayanus, 
  Charaxes 
  sem- 
  

   jyronius, 
  F., 
  Hypolimnas 
  holina, 
  etc. 
  No 
  butterfly 
  has 
  been 
  

   observed 
  as 
  yet 
  in 
  the 
  so-called 
  Sub-Antarctic 
  Islands 
  of 
  New 
  

   Zealand 
  — 
  the 
  Auckland, 
  Campbell, 
  Antipodes, 
  and 
  Macquarie 
  

   groups 
  — 
  though 
  it 
  is 
  just 
  possible 
  that 
  in 
  the 
  first-named 
  

   islands, 
  which 
  possess 
  a 
  rich 
  and 
  varied 
  Flora 
  of 
  surpassing 
  

   interest, 
  one 
  or 
  more 
  indigenous 
  species 
  may 
  be 
  found. 
  This 
  

   is 
  at 
  any 
  rate 
  the 
  opinion 
  of 
  Mr. 
  G. 
  V. 
  Hudson, 
  who 
  visited 
  

   the 
  Auckland 
  Islands 
  in 
  November 
  1906, 
  and 
  who 
  writes 
  

   as 
  follows 
  : 
  " 
  No 
  butterfly 
  was 
  seen 
  on 
  the 
  islands 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  but 
  it 
  

   would 
  be 
  an 
  unwarranted 
  assumption 
  that 
  no 
  butterfly 
  exists 
  

   there 
  ... 
  I 
  consider 
  that 
  the 
  existence 
  of 
  a 
  Satyrid 
  butterfly 
  

   on 
  Auckland 
  Island 
  allied 
  to 
  Erehia 
  or 
  Argyrophenga 
  is 
  

   probable, 
  but 
  I 
  do 
  not 
  think 
  it 
  likely 
  that 
  any 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  

   genus 
  Vanessa 
  occurs 
  there 
  ... 
  I 
  always 
  kept 
  a 
  very 
  sharp 
  

   look-out 
  for 
  butterflies, 
  but 
  none 
  were 
  seen, 
  although 
  on 
  

   several 
  occasions 
  the 
  weather-conditions 
  for 
  their 
  appearance 
  

   were 
  highly 
  favourable." 
  

  

  We 
  commence 
  our 
  survey 
  of 
  the 
  islands 
  of 
  the 
  tropical 
  

   Pacific 
  with 
  the 
  Ladrones, 
  from 
  which, 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  I 
  can 
  ascertain, 
  

   only 
  four 
  butterflies 
  have 
  been 
  definitely 
  recorded, 
  these 
  being 
  

   an 
  endemic 
  AteJla 
  {egestina, 
  Godt.), 
  Danaida 
  plexifpus 
  , 
  and 
  two 
  

   species 
  of 
  Euploea; 
  one 
  of 
  these, 
  E. 
  {Nipara) 
  eleutho, 
  Q. 
  et 
  G., 
  

   being 
  represented 
  throughout 
  Polynesia 
  by 
  several 
  well-defined 
  

   races. 
  From 
  the 
  widely 
  scattered 
  Caroline 
  Islands, 
  some 
  at 
  

   least 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  elevated 
  and 
  bear 
  a 
  most 
  luxuriant 
  vegeta- 
  

   tion. 
  Semper 
  records 
  a 
  fairly 
  rich 
  butterfly 
  fauna 
  of 
  twenty- 
  

   three 
  species, 
  nearly 
  all 
  of 
  well-known 
  Indo- 
  Australian 
  forms, 
  

   and 
  including 
  two 
  Papilios, 
  alphenor, 
  Cr., 
  and 
  agamemnon, 
  L. 
  

   Mr. 
  G. 
  F. 
  Mathew 
  has 
  also 
  recorded 
  from 
  Ponape 
  Island, 
  a 
  

   curious 
  dwarf 
  race 
  of 
  Melanitis 
  leda 
  under 
  the 
  name 
  M. 
  

   ponapensis. 
  Danaida 
  plexippus 
  has 
  also 
  found 
  its 
  way 
  to 
  the 
  

   Carolines, 
  and 
  Pagenstecher 
  records 
  it 
  from 
  the 
  Marshall 
  

   Islands 
  ; 
  but 
  it 
  has 
  apparently 
  been 
  unable 
  to 
  establish 
  itself 
  on 
  

   the 
  low 
  coral 
  islands 
  of 
  the 
  Gilbert 
  and 
  EUice 
  groups, 
  from 
  

   which 
  the 
  only 
  recorded 
  butterflies 
  are 
  Euploea 
  distincta, 
  Butl., 
  

   and 
  E. 
  eleutho, 
  Precis 
  villida, 
  and 
  the 
  fine 
  form 
  rarih, 
  Esch., 
  of 
  

   Hypolimnas 
  holina. 
  In 
  the 
  lofty 
  and 
  luxuriant 
  Fiji 
  Islands 
  

  

  