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assume that a systematic collection would bring to light other 

 facts of an interesting nature, and demonstrate clearly that the 

 insect fauna of one island or group is only more or less the reflex 

 of another. In his valuable paper on " The Gilbert Islands,"* 

 Mr. C. M. Woodford says, in endeavouring to account for the 

 insect fauna he found there : 



" Of the insect fauna, the scorpions, spiders, most of the beetles, 

 Evania appendig aster, the ants, the blatta, and the earwig, were 

 most probably conveyed to the islands by ships. 



" The remaining insect fauna, comprising the butterflies, eleven 

 moths, three species of hymenoptera, one of the hemiptera, the 

 locusta and the dragon-flies, were probably wind-borne, and I 

 think that such of then) as are not of almost cosmopolitan range 

 most probably reached the group through the Marshalls. 



" Of the two species of butterflies, Junonia vellida is generally 

 distributed throughout the Pacific Islands, but Hypolimnas rarick, 

 so far as I know, although found in the Marshalls, does not extend 

 further to the south-east than the Gilbert Group." 



The eleven species of moths taken by Woodford during his 

 visit to the Gilbert Islands in 1884 weref : (1) Chwrocampa 

 erotoides, (2) Cephonodes hylas, (3) Deiopeia pulchella, (4) Pro- 

 denia retina, (5) Amy no, oeto, (6) Heliothis armigera, (7) Catephia 

 linteola, (8) Archcea melicerte, (&) Remigia translata, (10) Marasmia 

 creonalis, and (11) Chloanges suralis. The latter insect was 

 described by Mr. Butler as a new species, under the name of Mar- 

 geronia woodfordi, but he has since identified it with Chloanges 

 suralis of Zeller. 



Of these Mr. Woodford remarks j : " Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 

 10 may be said to be cosmopolitan, extending throughout the 

 East generally, and to the more remote islands of the Pacific from 

 Australia to Tahiti. 



" No. 2, Cephonodes hylas, is also found in West Africa, South 

 Africa, Natal, North India, Moulmein, More ton Bay, and Japan. 

 Being a very handsome and conspicuous insect, it would not be 

 likely to escape observation ; but I never observed it in the 

 Solomons nor in Fiji, so that its range into this group was most 

 probably through the Marshalls. 



" No. 9, Remigia translata, is recorded from Ceylon, and from 

 the Marshall Islands. I also met with this insect in the Ellice 

 Group. 



* Loc. cit., p. 349. 



fGeogr. Journ., vi., 4, 1895, p. 348; also Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5), 

 xv., pp. 238-241. 



I Geogr. Journ., vi., 4, 1895, pp. 349-350. 



