CATALOGUE OF BUTTEEFLIES. 1 55 



CATALOGUE OF BUTTEEFLIES COLLECTED 

 IN BURMAH 



By Lt.-Ool. 0. H. E. Adamson, O.I.E., 



UP TO THE END OF 1 895, AND PRESENTED BY HIM TO THE 



MUSEUM OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF 



NORTHUMBERLAND, DURHAM, AND 



NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE. 



KEMAEKS. 



The following Catalogue is the result of some twenty-eight 

 years residence in various parts of Burmah ending in 1895. 

 During this time I visited almost every part of Upper and 

 Lower Burmah, and for the last twenty years of these I 

 occupied much of my spare time in making a collection of 

 Burmese Butterflies. Nearly every specimen in my collection 

 has been caught by myself, and so there can be no doubt 

 as to the correct identification of localities. 



Of the species enumerated in the Catalogue there are not 

 more than half a dozen which I have not personally captured. 

 As to the arrangement, I have generally followed that adopted 

 by Mr. Moore in his "Lepidoptera Indica" in so far as his 

 book has been pubhshed. 



Burmah, with regard to insect life, may be properly divided 

 into three zones — the Lower, the Central, and the Upper. 

 The Lower Zone comprises the deltas of the Irrawaddy, 

 Salween, and Sittang rivers, and includes what was generally 

 known as British Burmah previous to 1886, with the exception 

 of Arracan. The Central Zone includes the dry plains which 

 lie in the valleys of the Irrawaddy and Chindwin rivers ; and 

 extends roughly from the twentieth degree of north latitude 

 to the Tropic of Cancer. The Upper Zone includes Arracan 

 and all the northern portion of Upper Burmah, as well as the 

 hilly country between Arracan and the Irrawaddy Valley. 

 The fauna of the Central Zone is different in many ways from 



