JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



Vol. JLXXI. Part II. — NATURAL SCIENCE. 

 No. I.— 1902. 



I. — A List of the Butterflies of Hongkong in Southern Chioia, and the food- 

 })lants of the larvse. — By Lionel de Nic:6ville, F.E.S., C.M.Z.S., &G. 



[Received 1st September ; Read 6th November, 1901.] 



The Butterflies of Southern China appear to have been largely 

 neglected by modern Entomologists, though a considerable number of 

 the larger species were known to the ancients. For instance, Linnaeus 

 and Fabricius described many species from " China," many of these 

 and a few others were figured by Drury, Cramer, Herbst and Donovan 

 at the end of the eighteenth century. In 1861 Wallengren described 

 two new species and mentioned a third obtained during the voyage 

 of the frigate " Eugenie " which touched at Hongkong ; in 1862 Felder 

 described four species and mentioned a fifth captured by the officers 

 of the frigate "Novara" which visited the island; in 1886 Rober 

 described two new species of Lycsenidm from Hongkong ; while in 1899 

 Kirby recorded five species from thence. The first list of the butter- 

 flies known to occur in Hongkong was compiled by Messrs. Sydney B. 

 J. Skertchly and James J. Walker, and is published in a little book 

 entitled "Our Island.. A Naturalist's Description of Hongkong" 

 by Mr. Sydney B. J. Skertchly, F.G.S., M.A.L (1893). This list 

 embraces 116 species. Of these I have omitted from the present list 

 Ideopsis daos, Boisduval, Amathusia phidippus, Doubleday, and Fandita 

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