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Sandhurst. Torquay.

Dec. 29. 1880.

To A. R. Wallace, Esq.

My dear Sir,

In your last work, "Island Life",¹ wonderfully interesting, both for its facts & reasoning — at p. 433, § "Himal. Types of Birds & Butt^s. in the Celebes", you say: "Exactly parallel cases are two butterflies of the gen. Dichorrhagia and Euripus, wh. have very close allies in the Himalayas, but nothing like them in any intervening country."

It may perhaps interest you to know that Euripus Halitherses (D. & W.² pl. 41) is sent me, in some number, from Malacca, wh. in Kirby's Catal.³ is marked "Ind. bor." But Kirby⁴ assigns another species to Malacca, viz. E. Euploeoides (Felder).⁵

I am, my dear Sir, |Yours very truly | P. H. Gosse⁶ [signature]