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of elm, and the maiden-hair tree, with occasional small clumps of bamboo, 

 usually as yard plants, or in the cemeteries of the rich, where also may 

 occur a (evf pines and the Cryptomeria japonica. There is little, there- 

 fore, to give a forest clothing to the country, but if one climbs any of the 

 many-storied pagodas which occurred from time to time and takes a look 

 over the country, the abundance of the mulberry as seen in profile and the 

 few trees noted about the hamlets and cemeteries makes the country look 

 fiiirly well forested. 



This region, as stated at the outset, had not been reached by the 

 Boxer movement, and we felt perfectly safe in going about alone and with 

 no knowledge of the language. We took all our provisions with us, and 

 were not dependent on the Chinese for anything, except some birds or 

 game which our " Laodah " got for us. 



This trip through the interior offered opportunities to study other 

 forms of insects, especially mosquitoes. I collected at Hainingsome very 

 interesting mosquitoes, including a rare species of Anopheles (A. Sinensis 

 va?n(s), as determined by Mr. Coquillett. The nights were spent on the 

 canal in the boat, and we were bitten a good many times by these 

 Anopheles. They were very difficult fellows to catch; in other words, the 

 boat was open, and they would fly out before morning, but I managed to 

 get a number of specimens. Mosquitoes, however, instead of being 

 abundant, as one would have supposed in an open country devoted to rice 

 culture and under water much of the year, and intersected with canals, 

 which are permanent waterways, were very little in evidence, and, in point 

 of fact, except at Haining, we were not troubled by them at all. 



Mann : Did you find anybody who knew anything about entomology.? 



Marlatt : Tiiere is in Shanghai a Mr. A. Arthur, an Englishman, 

 formerly connected widi the Kew Gardens, and now in charge of the 

 Botanical Garden, and of all the street reservations and cemeteries, etc., 

 belonging to the European portion of Shanghai. He knew a little as a 

 gardener would about insects. 



Mann : No native entomologists? 



Marlatt : No native entomologists. A missionary. Dr. Barchet, 

 who acts as interpreter for the American Legation, and lives near Shanghai, 

 is an amateur botanist of some note, and has collected and studied the 

 plants of this region for twenty-five years in connection with a German 

 botanist. Dr. Faber, who is to be credited with much of our knowledge of 



