Butterflies of the Oriental Region. Part 2 : Nymphalidae, Satyridae, Amathusidae

This volume represents the second part of Butterflies of the Oriental Region by Bernard D'Abrera, as he continues the series he commenced in 1971 on Butterflies of the World. It is devoted to the three families Nymphalidae, Satyridae and Amathusidae, with the Lycaenidae and Riodinidae to follow in Part III, expected to be published in 1985. The Oriental Region is essentially an Island Region and continues, because of this fact, to be a source of great attraction to Naturalists and Zoogeographers from every part of the globe.
The vast number of islands and archi- pelagoes provides an equally vast number of geographical races and forms for study, and in a sense these oraceshand forms swell the known number of taxa to a size comparable with that of the fabulous Neotropical Region. It is here in the Oriental Region, that the largest and most opulent papilionids and the most extravagantly coloured pierids fly, and where the danaids reach the very peak of their development not only in numbers of species and races, but also in size and sheer beauty of form.
It is from the Oriental Region, that the greatest wealth of butterfly history has been chronicled and such collecting localities as The Khasi Jainta Hills, the Nilghiris, Kand Corbet's Gap, Fraser's Hill, Langkawi, Tenasserim (perhaps the most famous of all), Nias, Gunong Gede, Lake Toba and the waterfall at Maros and Bonthain peak (in Sulawesi) have become legendary.