1900. ] INSECTS OF THE ‘‘ SKEAT EXPEDITION.” 869 
A large proportion of the insects mentioned in this paper have 
been identified by comparison with specimens preserved at Oxford 
in the Hope Department of the University Museum, to the 
officials of which I offer my thanks for the ready help which 
they have given me. I cannot conclude without expressing my 
personal gratitude to the Siamese Government for the kindness 
and generosity with which it treated us throughout: to the officials 
at Bangkok and Singora who arranged for our reception in lower 
Siam: to the Malay Rajas through whose territory we passed, 
without whose aid the Siamese Malay States are practically a closed 
country to Europeans: and to Luang Phrom, Commissioner of 
Patani, to Kun Rhat Wan Hussein, and to the other gentlemen 
who accompanied us as agents of the Siamese Government ; at 
whose hands I received much personal kindness, and whose assist- 
ance and advice made it possible to travel in such a country with 
physical comfort and with some degree of celerity. 
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