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Bombyces there are upwards of thirty species in Japan, the Japanese 

 specimens of which are almost exactly similar to British examples of 

 those species, and several others are represented by forms or by species 

 very closely allied to them. Not less than ninety British species of 

 Noctuae occur in Japan, and the majority of these are exactly identical, 

 whilst others are but little modified, and nine other Japanese species 

 represent British ones. Of the Geometrae, eighty British species 

 occur in Japan, and nearly all these are identical with the home 

 productions. 



In addition to those already mentioned, the following two papers, 

 also by Mr. Leech, will be found useful to entomologists interested in 

 the Asiatic distribution of British species of Lepidoptera : 



" On Lepidoptera Heterocera from China, Japan, and Corea " 

 (" Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist." [6], xix. and xx.). 



" Lepidoptera Heterocera from Northern China, Japan, and Corea " 

 ("Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.," 1898, pt. iii.). 



