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Sandhurst. Torquay,²

Dec. 29. 1880.

To A. R. Wallace, Esq.

My dear Sir,

In your last work, "Island Life",³ wonderfully interesting, both for its facts & reasoning — at p. 433, § "Himal[ayan]. Types of Birds & Butt[erflie]^s. in the Celebes", you say: "Exactly parallel cases are two butterflies of the gen[era]. Dichorrhagia and Euripus, wh[ich]. 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.⁴ pl[ate]. 41) is sent me, in some number[s], from Malacca, wh[ich]. in Kirby's Catl[ogue].⁵ is marked "ind. bor."⁶ But Kirby⁷ assigns another species to Malacca, viz. E[uripus]. Euploeoides (Felder)⁸.

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