Excerpt from Rhopalocera Malayana: A Description of the Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula This would point out to the student that he is dealing with a number of distinct local races, or, as might be better expressed, local phases of one dominant form or species. Through this cause the enumeration of a local fauna, such as of the Malay Peninsula, is necessarily narrow in principle, and lacks the philosophical breadth which raises descriptive Entomology to a true biological standard. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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