A List of the Butterflies of Borneo 



with Descriptions of 



New Species. 



By R. Shelfokd, m.a., f.l.s., 

 {Curator of the Sarawak Museum). 



Part I. 



(DanaintE to Amathusiin^:). 



Only three lists of the butterflies of Borneo that can pre- 

 tend to any completeness have been published hitherto. One 

 by Messrs. Distant and Pryer appeared in the " Annals and 

 Magazine of Natural History" 1887; another by Messrs. 

 Pryer and Cator in the " British North Borneo Herald" of 

 1894 — a list remarkable for the number of nomina nuda con- 

 tained in it, and a third by Mr. E. Bartlett in the " Sarawak 

 Gazette" of 1896, reprinted in the " Zoological Note- Book of 

 Sarawak" by the same author. All three lists are now out 

 of date and many new species have been described even since 

 the compilation of the last one ; for example Mr. Bartlett 

 records only 139 Lyctenidre, whereas the number of species 

 of this family now known from Borneo just exceeds 300. Con- 

 sequently 1 feel justified in adding to the literature on Bornean 

 Lepidoptera, especially as I do not expect that many more 

 discoveries of new species will be made in the future in an 

 island that has been so well explored faunistically as Borneo ; 

 in short, this list has some claim to completeness and 

 finality. 



A few new species are described for the first time, and as 

 considerable trouble has been taken in consulting all available 

 literature on Oriental butterflies and as most of the specimens 

 have been referred to Dr. A. G. Butler and Mr. F. A. Heron, of 

 the British Museum, and by these well-known authorities de- 



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