﻿CXI 
  

  

  over 
  a 
  vast 
  area 
  in 
  the 
  tropical 
  regions 
  of 
  the 
  Old 
  World, 
  and 
  

   throughout 
  the 
  Pacific 
  islands 
  to 
  Tahiti, 
  but 
  apparently 
  it 
  

   has 
  not 
  yet 
  reached 
  the 
  Marquesas 
  or 
  the 
  Hawaiian 
  groups. 
  

   Pyrameis 
  cardui, 
  whose 
  migratory 
  habits 
  are 
  so 
  well 
  known, 
  is 
  

   perhaps 
  the 
  most 
  widely 
  distributed 
  butterfly 
  in 
  the 
  whole 
  

   world, 
  the 
  only 
  continent 
  from 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  entirely 
  absent 
  being 
  

   South 
  America, 
  where 
  it 
  is 
  replaced 
  by 
  the 
  closely 
  allied 
  P. 
  

   carye, 
  Hubn. 
  In 
  the 
  Old 
  World 
  it 
  ranges 
  from 
  Arctic 
  Lapland 
  

   and 
  Siberia 
  to 
  the 
  Cape 
  of 
  Good 
  Hope, 
  and 
  is 
  to 
  be 
  met 
  with 
  in 
  

   the 
  most 
  desert 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  most 
  fertile 
  regions; 
  it 
  has 
  

   established 
  itself 
  in 
  the 
  remotest 
  islands 
  of 
  the 
  Atlantic, 
  except 
  

   those, 
  which 
  like 
  Fernando 
  Noronha 
  and 
  South 
  Trinidad, 
  are 
  

   satellites 
  of 
  South 
  America 
  ; 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  Indian 
  Ocean 
  we 
  meet 
  

   with 
  it 
  even 
  in 
  the 
  Maldive 
  atolls. 
  In 
  the 
  Australian 
  region 
  

   the 
  distribution 
  of 
  its 
  form 
  kershawii, 
  McCoy, 
  extends 
  all 
  over 
  

   Australia 
  and 
  to 
  New 
  Zealand, 
  the 
  New 
  Hebrides, 
  and 
  New 
  

   Caledonia, 
  the 
  Loyalty 
  Islands 
  being 
  the 
  most 
  eastern 
  locality 
  

   in 
  which 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  observed 
  by 
  me; 
  and 
  the 
  same 
  form 
  

   reappears 
  far 
  to 
  the 
  north-east 
  in 
  the 
  Hawaiian 
  Islands. 
  

  

  Precis 
  villida, 
  which 
  under 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  " 
  Albin's 
  Hampstead 
  

   Eye," 
  has 
  in 
  some 
  unaccountable 
  manner 
  figured 
  as 
  a 
  British 
  

   butterfly 
  in 
  the 
  works 
  of 
  our 
  older 
  entomologists, 
  has 
  a 
  wide 
  

   distribution 
  in 
  the 
  Indo-Pacific 
  region 
  from 
  the 
  Chagos 
  atoll 
  

   to 
  Tahiti, 
  and 
  from 
  the 
  Caroline 
  Islands 
  to 
  New 
  Zealand; 
  

   becoming 
  more 
  highly 
  coloured 
  as 
  we 
  go 
  eastward, 
  and 
  its 
  

   brightest 
  form 
  {taitica, 
  Feld.) 
  is 
  found 
  in 
  Samoa 
  and 
  the 
  Society 
  

   Islands. 
  Lampides 
  hoeticus 
  has 
  a 
  wider 
  range 
  than 
  any 
  other 
  

   member 
  of 
  its 
  great 
  family, 
  as 
  it 
  occurs 
  in 
  all 
  the 
  warmer 
  

   regions 
  of 
  Europe 
  and 
  Asia, 
  throughout 
  Africa, 
  the 
  Malay 
  

   Archipelago, 
  and 
  Australia. 
  In 
  mid-Atlantic 
  it 
  has 
  reached 
  

   Ascension 
  and 
  St. 
  Helena, 
  and 
  the 
  Mascarene 
  and 
  Seychelles 
  

   Islands 
  in 
  the 
  Indian 
  Ocean 
  ; 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  Pacific 
  I 
  have 
  found 
  it 
  

   in 
  the 
  New 
  Hebrides, 
  New 
  Caledonia, 
  and 
  Tahiti, 
  while 
  Dr. 
  

   Perkins 
  records 
  it 
  as 
  common 
  in 
  the 
  Hawaiian 
  Islands. 
  It 
  is 
  

   possible 
  that 
  human 
  agency 
  has 
  been 
  a 
  factor 
  in 
  the 
  wide 
  

   distribution 
  of 
  L. 
  hoeticus, 
  as 
  its 
  larva 
  feeds 
  on 
  the 
  unripe 
  seeds 
  

   of 
  cultivated 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  wild 
  leguminous 
  plants, 
  and 
  in 
  some 
  

   localities, 
  as 
  in 
  Mauritius, 
  it 
  does 
  great 
  damage 
  to 
  garden 
  peas. 
  

  

  I 
  have 
  purposely 
  left 
  Hypolimii.as 
  holiiia 
  to 
  the 
  last, 
  as 
  it 
  is 
  

  

  