3 1907 



A List of a Collection of Lepidoptera 

 from Formosa. 



BY 



T. Miyake. 



Zoological Institute, Science College, Tokyo Imperial University. 



The Formosan Lepidoptera noted upon in this communication is a part 

 of the entomological collection, which was shown in the 5th Industrial 

 Exhibition held at Osaka in 1903 and which was later presented to the 

 Tokyo Imperial University by the Formosan Government Language School 

 at Taipe. The collection was made mostly in the northern part of the 

 island in 1902. 



The insect fauna of Formosa, presenting as it does to a great extent a 

 tropical character, includes a rich assortment of forms allied to or indentical 

 with those of several other faunistic regions. Thus, together with those 

 which are certainly peculiar to the island, there are found in no small 

 number such elements as may be said to belong to the Japanese, Chinese, 

 Philippine and Indian, and even to the Australian and African, insect 

 fauna. This miscellaneous character offers great difficulty to the work of 

 indentification, especially for one who like myself does not stand within 

 reach of all the important literature bearing on the subject. Although the 

 collection before me can not be said to be a very extensive one, I believe I 

 have been able to make several additions to the list of Formosan Lepido- 

 ptera as has hitherto been known to us from the reports of A. R. Wallace 

 and F. Moore,* A. G. Butler! and others. 



In the following list I have given to each species, so far as seemed 

 practicable, the Japanese names, thinking they might prove of use to col- 

 lectors. 



* P. Z. S. pp. 355-365 (1866). 



t P. Z. S. pp. 8ic-8i6 (1S77) . PP- 666-691 (1880) ; A. M. N. H. (5) pp. 5C-52 (1S83). 



