In the Aranez, five species— 
Lycosa clarki. 
Lycosa ordosa. 
Evippa douglasi. 
Pardosa shansia. 
Pardosa sowerbyi. 
ab WwW DN H 
In the Siphonaptera, three species— 
I. Ceratophyllus subcecatus. 
2. Neopsylla anoma. 
3. Vermipsylla dorcadia. 
In the case of the two new species of Acari, Mr. Hirst has been unable to 
publish descriptions, but he hopes to do so later. 
The chief interest attached to the collection is the locality in which it 
was made. No previous collections have been made in the same district. 
Most of the species are representative of very widely distributed genera. 
On the return journey from Lan-chou Fu to T’ai-yiian Fu, Mr. Grant 
and I made a collection of butterflies and dragonflies. This was forwarded, 
with the mammals, to the Smithsonian Institution. A description of this 
journey and the country where these insects were most prevalent appears in 
another chapter so it need take up no space here. At the end of the present 
chapter appears a list of the butterflies. I received no report on the collection 
from the Smithsonian Institution, and have been forced to make up the list 
myself, trusting largely to memory, and to the coloured plates and descriptions 
in Leech’s ‘‘ Butterflies of China.”’ 
In northern Shensi where the climate is dry and vegetation scarce, 
butterflies and dragonflies are comparatively rare, while scarcely any were 
seen west of Ching-ning Chou in Kansu. In the mountains of Shansi 
butterflies are plentiful and the marshes and rivers of the plains in the same 
province support many species of dragonflies. _ Nowhere however, on the line 
of march, were either of these orders seen in such quantities as in the loess 
valleys of eastern Kansu and central Shensi. 
Whether any of the species collected in these localities are new I cannot 
say. 
Specimens of a fresh water crab were obtained by me in the mountain 
streams south of Hsi-an Fu in Shensi and also near T’ai-pei-ch’éng in eastern 
Kansu. They belong to the genus Fotamon. 
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