﻿In 
  Pitcairn 
  Island, 
  though 
  a 
  good 
  many 
  moths 
  were 
  taken 
  

   during 
  the 
  day 
  I 
  was 
  on 
  shore 
  there, 
  not 
  a 
  single 
  butterfly 
  was 
  

   seen; 
  the 
  inhabitants 
  without 
  exception 
  declared 
  that 
  none 
  

   were 
  found 
  on 
  the 
  island, 
  and 
  did 
  not 
  recognise 
  any 
  of 
  the 
  

   species 
  that 
  I 
  showed 
  them. 
  Twenty 
  years 
  or 
  more 
  after 
  my 
  

   visit 
  to 
  this 
  remote 
  spot, 
  Mr. 
  M. 
  J. 
  Nicoll, 
  in 
  the 
  " 
  Valhalla," 
  

   had 
  the 
  same 
  experience. 
  He 
  remarks 
  (" 
  Three 
  Voyages 
  of 
  a 
  

   Naturalist," 
  p. 
  213) 
  — 
  " 
  We 
  saw 
  no 
  butterflies, 
  but 
  there 
  were 
  

   many 
  small 
  moths, 
  and 
  one 
  species, 
  Plutella 
  maculipennis 
  " 
  

   (which 
  I 
  also 
  noticed 
  on 
  Pitcairn) 
  " 
  was 
  most 
  abundant." 
  

   The 
  apparent 
  absence 
  of 
  Hypolimnas 
  holina 
  from 
  this 
  beautiful 
  

   and 
  fertile 
  little 
  island 
  is 
  the 
  more 
  remarkable, 
  as 
  I 
  saw 
  plenty 
  

   of 
  the 
  Malvaceous 
  undershrub 
  which 
  is 
  the 
  ordinary 
  food- 
  

   plant 
  of 
  the 
  larva 
  growing 
  there; 
  and 
  the 
  Natural 
  History 
  

   Museum 
  at 
  South 
  Kensington 
  possesses 
  several 
  specimens 
  of 
  

   the 
  butterfly 
  from 
  the 
  desolate 
  Elizabeth 
  or 
  Henderson 
  Island, 
  

   more 
  than 
  100 
  miles 
  to 
  the 
  eastward. 
  It 
  has 
  even 
  probably 
  

   reached 
  the 
  most 
  remote 
  outlier 
  of 
  Polynesia, 
  Easter 
  Island, 
  as 
  

   a 
  butterfly, 
  captured 
  by 
  Mr. 
  and 
  Mrs. 
  Scoresby 
  Eoutledge 
  

   during 
  their 
  visit 
  to 
  that 
  most 
  interesting 
  spot 
  in 
  1914, 
  can 
  be 
  

   only 
  that 
  species 
  from 
  their 
  description 
  of 
  the 
  insect, 
  and 
  was 
  

   entirely 
  unknown 
  to 
  the 
  natives. 
  Unfortunately 
  the 
  single 
  

   specimen 
  was 
  lost 
  during 
  transmission 
  home. 
  From 
  Caroline 
  

   Island, 
  a 
  small 
  atoll 
  nearly 
  500 
  miles 
  north 
  of 
  Tahiti, 
  the 
  

   Eclipse 
  expedition 
  of 
  1883 
  have 
  recorded 
  Melanitis 
  leda, 
  form 
  

   taitensis, 
  and 
  Hifpolimnas 
  holina, 
  form 
  holdeni, 
  Butl. 
  

  

  Little 
  or 
  nothing 
  is 
  known 
  of 
  the 
  insects 
  of 
  the 
  other 
  small 
  

   coral 
  islands 
  in 
  the 
  equatorial 
  region 
  of 
  the 
  Pacific, 
  but 
  when 
  

   we 
  come 
  to 
  the 
  large 
  and 
  lofty 
  islands 
  of 
  Hawaii 
  and 
  its 
  satellites, 
  

   we 
  find 
  a 
  fairly 
  rich, 
  varied, 
  and 
  isolated 
  Flora 
  and 
  Fauna 
  of 
  the 
  

   highest 
  interest, 
  which 
  are 
  now 
  almost 
  as 
  well 
  known 
  as 
  those 
  of 
  

   any 
  region 
  of 
  equal 
  extent 
  in 
  the 
  Tropics. 
  Including 
  our 
  Pieris 
  

   rapae, 
  which 
  has 
  been 
  accidentally 
  brought 
  over 
  from 
  North 
  

   America, 
  and 
  is 
  now 
  common 
  and 
  sometimes 
  destructive, 
  and 
  

   two 
  American 
  Lycaenids 
  purposely 
  introduced 
  in 
  order 
  to 
  cope 
  

   with 
  the 
  plague 
  of 
  that 
  universal 
  tropical 
  shrub 
  Lantana 
  

   camara, 
  the 
  Hawaiian 
  butterflies 
  number 
  nine 
  only. 
  Two 
  of 
  

   these 
  are 
  endemic 
  species, 
  Pyrameis 
  tammeamea, 
  Esch., 
  by 
  far 
  

   the 
  grandest 
  development 
  of 
  the 
  Vanessid 
  type, 
  and 
  the 
  little 
  

  

  