DEALT WITH IN THE PRESENT AVORK. 
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hare PaLxjarctic affinities, and 14 are Oriental or have Oriental affinities. The s])ecies occurring 
in the Palixsarctic llegion or exhibiting Palsearctic affinities, less 11 with Oriental affinities, are 71 
in number, thus showing a preponderance of 5 Pahiearctic to 1 Oriental. 
The relative proportion of PaUvarctic and Oriental species occurring in the area dealt with here 
may be tabulated as follows : — 
Paliuarctic. Oriental. 
China, i^orth o 1 
Corea 5 1 
Japan Islands 3 1 
China, Yang-tze watershed 2 25 
As has been stated, there are 3 Oriental to every 2 Palsarctic species in the Island of Kiushiu, 
without deducting from the latter 5 species which exhibit Oriental affinities. It would seem, 
therefore, that this portion of Japan, and probably the Island of Shikoku, together with the 
Yang-tze watershed, belong strictly to the Indo-Chinese section of tlie Oriental Region, and the 
remainder of the area to the Pakicarctic Ilegion — thus rendering the Manchurian Subregion 
unnecessary so far as the llhopalocera are concerned. 
Ancient Swokd-uilt. (X.W. Japan.) 
