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One of my collectors brought in an Agarista, 

 similar to the one with an orange spot in the hind- 

 wings from Fergusson and Goodenough Islands. 

 This insect seemed a trifle different, the orange patch 

 on the underwings being slightly more conspicuous, 

 and to me the spot appeared to vary somewhat in 

 shape. 1 



The common Nyctalemon (black, bronze and bluey- 

 white) occurred on St. Aignan, though so far from 

 the mainland. It took after the Queensland insect in 

 being very " coppery " in colour. 



I stayed at St. Aignan some three months, and then 

 took the cutter Calliope to Rossel Island at the ex- 

 treme end of the Louisiades group. This place had 

 rather a bad reputation in the South Seas because of 

 the wreck there once of a ship with a Chinese crew. 

 The natives kept the Chinese as prisoners on the wreck 

 and ate them one by one, quite after the manner of 

 the Cyclops with the followers of Odysseus. 



My New Guinea boys were very much perturbed 

 at the thought of going to Rossel Island, because 

 it bore such an evil reputation. The Government 

 ketch Murua was at the time anchored at St. Aignan, 

 on its way thither to quieten some tribes who had 

 been desolating other villages, killing man, woman, 



1 Immetalia saturata meeki, Roths., Nov. Zool., 1896, p. 82, 

 described from Fergusson. The specimens from St. Aignan do 

 not differ from those obtained on Fergusson and Goodenough. 

 K. J. 



