138 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
it cleared after holding us up for four hours, and our passage 
through the beautiful Inland Sea was not spoiled. Before we 
reached Nagasaki we passed through miles of heavily clouded, 
yellowish sea, due, so our captain said, to the presence of fish- 
spawn, an explanation which very few of us regarded as satis- 
factory. 
July 2nd in Hong Kong. After visiting Canton and Macao 
I devoted the rest of my too short stay to working the Peak and 
Happy Valley for Lepidoptera. On my way up to the hotel I 
had seen several Papilio polytes flying near the cathedral, and 
was very hopeful of a good time with the net, which I certainly 
had. Near the Peak I took the following, mostly at flowers of 
Lantana : 
Papilio demoleus, L., dissimilis, L., paris, L., polytes—one 
very fine female of the form cyrus, F.; also Danais similis, L., 
abundant, plexippus (genutia, Cram.), Huplea midamus, L., 
common, Mycalesis mineus, L., Lethe confusa, Auriv., Ypthima 
avanta, Moore, Ergolis ariadne, L., Cupha erymanthis, Drury, 
Junoma almana, L. (Asterie), Neptis uwrynome, Westwood (san- 
gaica, Moore), Neptis columella, Argynnis hyperbius, Joh., Sym- 
brenthia hippoclus, Cr., Zemeros fleygas, Cram., Abisara echerius, 
Stoll., Zizera maha, Kollar, Terias hecabe, L., Notocrypta feis- 
thamelit, Boisd., Parnara bada, Moore, Caltoris colaca, Moore, 
and contigua, Mabille. 
The following also occurred near the Peak : 
Euproctis flava, Fab., Syntomis Muirheadi, Feld., Clelea 
sapphirina, Walker (quite a gem), Chrysartona stipata, Walker, 
Hyposidon talaca, Walker, Problepsis delphiuria, Guen., the fine 
Emerald Agathia lycenaria, Koll., Sauris olivacea, Warren, 
Craspedia propinquaria, Leech, Idea ? pallida, Warr., Scirpo- 
phaga patulella, Wlk., Cnaphalocrocis medinalis, Guen., and 
Heortia vitessoides, Mocre. 
Near the Happy Valley I took at flowers of Lantana camera, 
Danais limniace, Cram., similis, L., plexippus (genutia, Cram.), 
Euplea midamus, L., Ergolis ariadne, L., Junonia orithya, Linn., 
Ganoris canidia, Sparr., Papilio helenus, L., polytes, L., sar- 
vedon, L., agamemnon, L., paris, L., common, but difficult to 
get in good condition, and bianor, Cram. 
July 14th, at Manila; ashore for two or three hours only. I 
netted several Junonia almana, L., (Asterie) lemonias, L., Danais 
chrysippus, L., and a few Zinckenia fascialis, Cram. 
July 21st, at Port Darwin; ashore for a couple of hours. 
Terias hecabe, L., Elodina perdita, Misken, Hypocista wrius, F. 
(not unlike our Cenonympha pamphilus), Danais affinis, F., a 
small Skipper, Padraona Walkeri, Heron, and two Lycenids, 
Lycenesthes ? species which agree with two unnamed examples 
in the National Collection taken at Port Darwin by Commander 
Walker. 
