CHAP. 3cv]n.] OF CELEBES. 279 



Of these my own collection contains 16 species from 

 Celebes and 15 from Borneo ; but whereas no less than 

 14 are confined to the former island, only two are peculiar 

 to the latter. The Nyniphalidte are a very extensive 

 group, of geuemlly atrong-winged and very bri^^lit-coloured 

 butterEies, very abundant in the ti-opics, and represeoted 

 in our own country by our Fritillaries, our Vanessa.**, and 

 our Purple-emperor. Some months ago 1 drew up a list of 

 the EiUiteru species of this group, including all the uew 

 ones discovered by myself, and arrived at the following 

 comparative resulte : — 



Spcain of SymphalidB. ^^j, pecuWspociet 



JaiTB ... 70 23 33 



Borneo. . . 62 . . . . . 15 . , . . . 2S 



Oekbes ... 4$ ..... 35 ..... 73 



The Coleoptera are so extensive that few of the graups 

 have yet been carefully worked out. I will therefore refer 

 to one only, which I have myself recently studied— the 

 GetoniadjB or Rose-chafers,—^ group of beetles whicli, 

 owing to their extreme beauty, have been much sought 

 after. From Java 37 species of these insects are known, 

 and from Celebes only 30 ; yet only 13, or 35 per cent, are 

 peculiar to the former island, and 19, or 63 per cent., to the 

 latter. 



The result of these comparisons is, that although Ce- 

 lebes is a single large island with only a few smaller ones 

 ciosely grouped around it, we must really consider it as 

 forming one of the great divisions of the Archipelago, equal 

 in rank and importance to the whole of the Moluccau or 

 Philippine groups, to the Papuan islands, or to tlie Indo- 

 Malay islands (Java, Sumatra, Borneo, and the Malay 

 peninsula). Taking those faruliies of insects and binW 

 which are best known, the foUowiug table shows the com- 

 parison of Celebes with the other groups of islands : — 



Indo-Malay rogion 

 Philippine group 

 Celebe^i . . . 

 Molaccan grotip 

 Timor group . 

 Papnau group 



PAriLTOSTDiE ASP HAWIH, FARR^^ 



Per cent of iwuliar Per tent of peculiar 



gpeoii'J. Species. 

 , 56 ....... S4 



. 66 ....... 73 



. 69 fiO 



.52 . 62 



.42 47 



. 64 ..... . 74 



