694 Longicornia Malay ana. 



Menado, Tondano. Northern Celebes is much more 

 wooded and has a better climate than the South, yet 

 my nearly four months collecting there did not pro- 

 duce many Coleoptera. I am inclined to believe that 

 in all forms of life Celebes is really deficient in variety of 

 species, although it produces a number of very curious 

 and interesting forms. 



Sula Islands. These were visited by Mr. Allen, who 

 devoted himself chiefly to birds. Being a small outlying 

 portion of the Celebes group of islands, these are probably 

 poor in species of insects. 



Lomhock. A volcanic island, with a very dry climate 

 and thorny vegetation. I spent two months there, but 

 finding it almost barren in insects, devoted myself chiefly 

 to bird collecting. 



Flores. A volcanic island, but much larger and more 

 fertile than Lombock. Mr. Allen spent between two and 

 three months here, but obtained very few insects. 



Timor. This large island is the poorest in the whole 

 Archipelago for insects, owing to the dryness of the cli- 

 mate and the almost entire absence of forest. I spent 

 more than four months there, and the small number of 

 Longicorns obtained fully represents its comparative 

 productiveness. 



Bouru. I was two months in this island, but it was the 

 wet season, and I was obliged to employ men to cut down 

 the forest or I should have got scarcely any Longicorns. 

 The country consists in a great part of open grassy hills 

 with a scattered vegetation, and is decidedly inferior 

 entomologically to Batchian. 



Ambnyna. My insect collections here were almost all 

 made during three weeks spent at a new plantation in 

 the middle of the island, in January 1858. Here were 

 several acres of newly cleared jungle, and by searching 

 daily among the stumps, trunks and branches, I obtained 

 nearly three hundred species of beetles, of which about 

 fifty were Longicorns. 



Ceram. This large island seemed to me very deficient 

 in all forms of animal life. My collections were made at 

 many points on the south coast, and Mr. Allen collected 

 at Wahai on the north coast. To few places have I de- 

 voted more time and trouble, and the number of species 

 obtained must be held fully to represent its comparative 

 productiveness. 



