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much richer than in \'oi, this is also to be seen from the 

 collections we made tliirin*,' our one day's halt at Hura. Amou»^^st 

 the collections must be mentioned the capture of three species 

 of Telrapueumones (the first that we saw in Africa); at the 

 same place, and even at \'oi, we began to meet with Solpugi- 

 dae. 



Further, during three days, our way lay through the arid 

 Serengetti Plains (water had to be carried along with us) 

 coveretl in some places only with grass, in others also with 

 acacias. Commiphora, and near Taveta with baobabs as well. 

 We were going amidst numerous herds of Kongoni, Grant's 

 gazelles and Onjx heisa. Not so often we met with giraffes, 

 Waller's gazelles, elands, impalas, zebras and ostriches. The 

 involuntary speediness of our march (owing to absence of water) 

 compelled us to limit our collecting to halting-places. Mostly 

 we found beetles, cockroaches and scorpions (under fallen 

 trees). 



On the fifth day of our departure from Voi we reached 

 Taveta. This is a very small settlement situated at a distance 

 of 40 minutes walk from the riA'er Lumi. Formerly it stood 

 near the very river, but from fear of malaria the station was 

 afterwards transferred to a more safe place. We encamped 

 near the river on a lawn, from which before sunset and in 

 the morning there opened a beautiful view on the snowy sum- 

 mit of Kilima-Njaro (in the day-time all the upper half is 

 enveloped in clouds). Our halting-place was chosen near the 

 Taveta forest where we intended to collect for a few days. 

 The Taveta forest in fact represents the gallery forest of the river 

 Lumi widely expanded and differs from the ordinary gallery 

 forest in richness and width— it is like an oasis of a virgin, 

 tropical forest amidst surrounding plains. With a length of 

 10 miles the forest attains the width of 1V2 miles in some 

 places. Unfortunately the forest is too much traversed by nu- 

 merous foot-paths of the natives Wa-Taveta, whose villages 

 and banana-plantations are distributed in the forest. From 



