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Murray. List of Japanese Butterflies. Ent. Mo. Mag. July 1876, 

 p. 33. 



A compilation from various sources, in which Mr. Murray 

 shows that he shares my views as to the validity of many of 

 Mr. Butler's species. 

 W. B. Pryer. List of Rhopalocera of the Chekiang and Kiangsoo 

 provinces, China. Ent. Mo. Mag. Aug. 1877. 



A list of 86 species, with an account of a visit to the Snowy 

 Valley near Ningpo, where many new species were found. The 

 novelties in this collection were described partly by Butler 

 and partly by Moore. The collection, with many additional 

 species from other parts of China, is now in Mr. Godmau's 

 museum. 

 Butler. Journal of the Linnean Society, Zool. vol. ix. p. 50. 

 1862. 



A list of the Diurnal Lepidoptera collected by Mr. Whitely 

 at Hakodadi. 

 Butler. Cistula Entomologica, vol. ii. p. 281 (June 1878). 



On Butterflies from Japan collected by Mr. Fenton. Describes 

 several new species. 

 Butler. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 5, vii. 

 (March 1881). 



Describes a number of new species, and gives a list of 130 

 species collected by Maries in the district of Nikko, Japan, 

 now in the British Museum. 

 O. Janson. Cistula Entomologica, vol. ii. p. 153 (May 1877). 

 Describes the new species in Mr. Jonas's collection, of which 

 a complete set is now in Mr. Godman's museum. 

 O. Janson. Cist. Ent. vol. ii. p. 269 (June 1878). 



Remarks on Japanese Biitterflies, and descriptions of five new 

 species figured on plate ^) (uncoloured). 



With regard to the geographical limits of this paper, I have deter- 

 mined to exclude Southern and Western China — the first because 

 its climate and fauna is tropical rather than palsearctic, and because 

 our knowledge of the Butterflies is infinitesimal. It is extraordinary 

 that out of the great number of Englishmen who for nearly a century 

 have resided at various ports on the coast of China, not one has 

 ever studied Lepidoptera scientifically, and no traveller has ever col- 

 lected more than a few specimens in any one place, so far as I am 

 aware. Nearly as much was known by Donovan 90 years ago of the 

 insects of South China as we know now ; and there is perhaps hardly 

 another place in the world of equal interest and with half the faci- 

 lities for travel which has been so much neglected by naturalists. 

 Of Western China we know nothing except from the travels of that 

 excellent and intrepid naturalist the Abbe David. It is much to be 

 deplored that his extensive collections of insects have lain unnoticed 

 for so long in Paris. M. Oberthiir, of Rennes, has done much to 

 give an idea of their novelty and interest. It is evident, however, 

 that this fauna must be studied in connexion with that of Sikkim, 



