INDEX. 



Accipiter ruhricoIUst 393 



Action of crabs on coral mud flats, 25 



Agaridid^, members of, mimicked by 



other Lepidoptera» 173 

 Agassiz, Prof., on coral reefs 33, 40; 



on Tortuga and Florida llcefs, 37 

 Agrostemma montanum^ 78 

 Albino, Senhor, his kindness, 416 



Alefuros cf Bum, 392, S.li 

 Alexander the Great, 178, 194 ; grave 



of, 260 

 Amadina hisularls, 422 

 AmhiJ-anak, a form of mair age in fhe 



Lampongs, 15 J ; in Passumah Lands, 



IDG 



Amhhjpodia eumolpiis^ 137 



Ainboina, anival in, 288; first im- 

 pressions of, 288; vi^it interior of, 



289 ; people of, 290; churches in, 



290 ; salubrity of, 298; kindness of 

 the Captain of the Chinese in, 288, 



. 297 ; Resident of, 288 

 Arr.esiajuven's, mimicking in, 139 



Amherdia nobilis, 9 

 Amnosia decom^ 172; habits of, 173 

 Amnesia eitdamia, new species. 275 

 Amorpliojyhalhis titannmj 10,175; great 



tubers of, 227 

 Anacropora f orbed, new genus and 

 species of corals from Keeling 



Islands, 44 

 Anaphfdin jaranicaj2\0i saxatiliSy 210 



Anak Dalom^ roiuance of, 158 

 Anchors, three, dredged up at Menado, 



486; list of organisms 



them, 496 

 Anjer, visit to, in 1878, 



Smida Straits from, 11 ; 



last look of, 488 

 Anous stolidii3, 32 

 Antelope, Suniatran, 172 

 Antennarii, 23 

 Anthracocerus convexn^j 252 



Anthers, two forms of, in Melastoma^ 



229 

 Antltropomorphous apes, resemblance 



of the Kubus to the, 243 



35 



adhering to 



1 1 ; view of 

 stay at, IGl ; 



236; 



88, 



AntJius mediusy 459 



Ants inhabiting Myrmecodia and JTy- 



nophfjtumy 79 ; fit species of Rafflesi' 



acesBy 206 ; milking winged Rtmip- 



teray 251 

 AppJas nero, note on coloration of sexes 



of, 130 ' 

 Apis dorsata, habits of, 478 

 Aprosmidiis huruensis^ 393^ 

 Aiahida Hills, 1 

 Arachis Ju/pngfea, 392 

 Arhorophlla personata, 172 

 Argus pheasants, 130; habits of, 131 

 Arms of Timorese, 463 

 Aru, touch at, 300 

 Ai t, unknown to the Kubus, 



among Timor-laut islanders, 317 

 Artaxa simulans, mimicry of, 173 

 Artistic taste among Solorese, 285 

 Ai'focarpus tnciisa, 331, ^.^S 

 Arundina speciosa, fertilisation of, 



91-94, 96 

 Asparagus racemosuSy 471 

 Adictopterus armatuSj 215 

 Attack on our house at Patunaba, 460 



Babirnsa in Buru, 407 ; native account 



of its habits, 407 

 Badui, curious race of people in Java, 



102, 103 



Bagiiala, Bay of, 290 



Jkdai, the, a Lampoug institution, 140 ; 



descii]>tion of, 141 ; er[uivalcnt of in 



Burn, 394 



Balik g»mp«» superstitions attaching to 



this trej, 228 

 Ball, foot-, in the Lampongs, 149 

 Baluai of Amboina, 293 

 Bauhinia, great beauty of, 252 

 Bautanj, Sultan of, 144; influence of, 



in the Lampongs, 144; roads in, 52; 



Sundunese in, 52 ; rice cultivation in, 

 52 



Banteng, in Java, 116 



Bauda, birds in, 287 ; calls at, 286 



Biusia sp., corollas of, 233 



Bastian, Prof., on AVak olo-Buruese, 402 



