On the Lepidoptera collection created by Petar Novak, stored in Natural History Museum in Split

In this work we will present the Lepidopterological collection which is stored in Natural History Museum Split created by Petar Novak for exhibition purposes of Museum. Aside from Lepidoptera, contains other orders insects including Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Orthoptera, Odonata, Hymenoptera, and Diptera await taxonomical revaluation. The material was collected first half 20th century, mostly around Kaštela near Split. 273 specimens belonging to 143 species. Rhopalocera are presented with five families 36 species, while Heterocera 21 107