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FOLIA ENTOMOLOGICA HUNGARICA ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK LV 1994 p. 335-346 Zoological Collecting by the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Korea. No. 126. A Report of the Collectings of the Eighteenth Expedition with special reference to the autumnal Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) fauna L. Peregovits and L. Ronkay Zoological Collecting by the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Korea. No. 126. A Report of the Collectings of the Eighteenth Expedition with special reference to the autumnal Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) fauna. - A detailed report on the zoological collecting trip to the Republic of Korea in 1993, the complete list of localities and the annotated list of the collected Noctuidae material are given. INTRODUCTION Within the framework of the joint research project of the Center for Insect Systematics (CIS) and the Hungarian Natural History Museum (HNHM) for the systematic and zoogeographical study of the Lepidoptera fauna of the Korean peninsula (and the adjacent islands), the second expedition was carried out between 19th October-3rd November, 1993. We planned to study the Noctuidae and Arctiidae material in the collections of the CIS and the Laboratory of Insect Taxonomy, Department of Entomology, Agricultural Sciences Institute, Suweon and taking collecting trips in the north-eastern and southern mountainous parts of the Republic of Korea, including island Cheju-do. The CIS in Chuncheon was our basis in the first week, where we worked in the collection during daytime and visited different places for collecting at the evenings in the vicinity of the city. We had the opportunity to stay five days in island Cheju and study the autumnal arthropod fauna in different regions of the Halla-san, including the higher forest zone inside the Halla-san National Park. Returning from Cheju, we had three days for field work in the Paekun-san region at the southern edge of the peninsula. The weather conditions were rather bad during the first two weeks: in the first period the days were sunny and relatively warm but the temperature was fallen rapidly just after the sunset and the open, cloudless evenings with full moon turned regularly to frosty nights. The flight of the nocturnal insects was relatively intensive at the twilight and in early evening but reduced quickly and almost stopped about two hours after the sunset; only sole specimens came to the light.