514 Sarpjeon N. Manders' catalogue of the 



there myself, and can only say that it is an unhealthy 

 hill station at an altitude of about 7000 ft. The country 

 round about is mountainous and covered with thick 

 forest, and I should certainly select this as my head- 

 quarters if I had the good luck to spend a season 

 collecting in the Shan States. It lies just north of the 

 Euby Mines, and can be reached without any difficulty 

 from Mandalay. 



Koni lies at an altitude of 4500 ft. in the centre of the 

 Phwayla Plateau, and is close to the newly-made road 

 leading from Meiktila in Upper Burma to the Shan 

 States. The railway will also very possibly take the 

 same route. The Phwayla Plateau is an extensive open 

 down country, mostly under cultivation, but otherwise 

 covered with short turf, bracken fern, and fir-trees 

 {Pinus longifolia). The change from the dense forest 

 lying between the Burma plains and this plateau is very 

 remarkable. The former is essentially tropical ; the 

 latter reminds one immediately of the English South 

 Downs. Such plateaux are not uncommon ; they are to 

 be met with in the interior of the Khasia and jynteah 

 hills, and one has lately been discovered at Haka, in the 

 Chin country. Such plateaux look healthy enough, but 

 Koni was dreadfully unhealthy on account of the fever, 

 and has since been abandoned by British troops. Few 

 butterflies are obtainable there, but Micros were very 

 numerous, and I was fortunate enough to take several 

 new to science. 



Fort Stedman lies about thirty miles due east of Koni 

 and Mone, the capital of the Shan States, almost due 

 east of Fort Stedman, at a distance of a hundred miles. 

 Fort Stedman is situated on rising ground close to the 

 village of Maingsouk, on the eastern shore of the Eulay 

 Lake. It is a lovely spot, and would that I had the good 

 fortune to visit it once again. Immediately behind the 

 fort rises the Sintoung range of hills, running up to 

 5000 ft., and everywhere covered with dense forest. The 

 western shore is also enclosed by a lofty range of hills, 

 everywhere intersected by deep ravines running up from 

 the water's edge, and filled with dense jungle. The 

 elevation is 3200 ft., and the flora is mostly tropical, 

 though our experiments in growing English vegetables 

 were surprisingly successful. The inhabitants are lake- 

 dwellers, and spend the greater part of their lives on 



