a SO [Ixxxi 
tibus altis. Restiones varios, inter quos LR. giganteus, edit. 
Penicillis in dorso lilacinis.” This and (2) on the same piece 
of paper. Burchell was at “ Mountain Station” on Dec. 19, 
1814. 
(7) An unknown larva which Dr. Jordan and Sir George 
Hampson believe to be a Lasiocampid. ‘“ 20.10.14.” The 
locality at this date was Mossel Bay. 
All the above localities are in the south of Cape Colony 
between Mossel Bay and Cape Town, “ Mountain Station ” 
and ‘ Krombeks-river Station” being to the N.E. of St. 
Sebastian’s Bay. The former is in the Lange Berge, and 
Burchell determined its latitude as 33° 58’ 14” 8. 
The method of preservation now so abundantly justified by 
the persistence of larval pattern and colouring for ninety 
years, is carefully described in “Travels in the Interior of 
Southern Africa” (vol. i, pp. 469—473. London, 1822). 
Burchell much wanted to preserve a large Puff Adder which 
had been killed near Klaarwater, on Nov. 19, 1811, by one of 
his Hottentots. In the absence of bottles, kegs, and spirits, 
“the idea was at last imagined of drying the skin, on the same 
principle, and in the same manner, as would have been done 
with a large leaf... . The whole process was extremely 
simple, and consisted merely in cutting it open, along the 
under part, entirely from the head to the point of the tail, 
and stripping off the skin, which was found to separate with 
the greatest facility. All the flesh was cut away as closely as 
possible to the head, which was left entire. The skin was 
then spread flat on a sheet of large strong paper, and placed 
between a number of other sheets to absorb the moisture. It 
was put into the press, leaving the head out so as not to be 
crushed, and kept there till perfectly dry ; taking care every 
day, or every other day, to remove the sheets that had _ be- 
come damp, and replace them by an equal quantity of dry 
paper; but the skin itself was never separated from that 
sheet to which its inner side had adhered. ... The skin 
requires no antiseptic preparation, nor any varnish to be 
applied to it! nor is any gum, or paste, at all necessary for 
making it adhere to the paper; a certain glutinous property 
of its own being sufficient for that purpose. . . . The 
paper used for this purpose was a strong white cartridge-paper, 
