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Show 1881.] OF A M U R L A N D , N O R T H CHINA, A N D JAPAN. 859 MURRAY. List of Japanese Butterflies. Ent. Mo. Mag. July 1876, p. 33. A compilation from various sources, in which Mr. Murray shows that he shares my views as to the validity of many of Mr. Butler's species. W . B. P R Y E R . List of Rhopalocera of the Chekiang and Kiangsoo provinces, China. Ent. M o . Mag. Aug. 1877. A list of 86 species, with an account of a visit to the Snowy Valley near Ningpo, where many new species were found. The novelties in this collection were described partly by Butler and partly by Moore. The collection, with many additional species from other parts of China, is now in Mr. Godman's museum. B U T L E R . Journal of the Linnean Society, Zool. vol. ix. p. 50. 1862. A list of the Diurnal Lepidoptera collected by Mr. Whitely at Hakodadi. B U T L E R . Cistula Entomologica, vol. ii. p. 281 (June 1878). On Butterflies from Japan collected by Mr. Fenton. Describes several new species. B U T L E R . Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 5, vii. (March 1881). Describes a number of new species, and gives a list of 130 species collected by Maries in the district of Nikko, Japan, now in the British Museum. O. J A N S O N . Cistula Entomologica, vol. ii. p. 153 (May 1877). Describes the new species in Mr. Jonas's collection, of which a complete set is now in Mr. Godman's museum. O. J A N S O N . Cist. Ent. vol. ii. p. 269 (June 1878). Remarks on Japanese Butterflies, and descriptions of five new species figured on plate 5 (uncoloured). With regard to the geographical limits of this paper, I have determined to exclude Southern and Western China-the first because its climate and fauna is tropical rather than palsearctic, and because our knowledge of the Butterflies is infinitesimal. It is extraordinary that out of the great number of Englishmen who for nearly a century have resided at various ports on the coast of China, not one has ever studied Lepidoptera scientifically, and no traveller has ever collected more than a few specimens in any one place, so far as I am aware. Nearly as much was known by Donovan 90 years ago of the insects of South China as we know now ; and there is perhaps hardly another place in the world of equal interest and with half the facilities for travel which has been so much neglected by naturalists. Of Western China we know nothing except from the travels of that excellent and intrepid naturalist the Abbe David. It is much to be deplored that his extensive collections of insects have lain unnoticed for so long in Paris. M. Oberthiir, of Rennes, has done much to give an idea of their novelty and interest. It is evident, however, that this fauna must be studied in connexion with that of Sikkim, |