8/172 Hist._ for March, 1859, says, "amongst these larger islands which are connected with the middle palaeotropical region, none offers forms so different from the continent and other islands as Ceylon. It might be considered the Madagascar of the Indian region. We not only find there peculiar genera and species, not again to be recognised in other parts; but even many of the common species exhibit such remarkable varieties, as to afford ample means for creating new nominal species," p.280.The difference exhibited between the insects of Ceylon and those of Hindustan and the Dekkan are noticed by Mr.Walker in the present work, p.ii.ch.vii, vol.i.p. 270. |