iv PREFACE. 



In 1885 he visited Marocco, the Canary Isles, and Madeira, where his entomological 

 acquisitions were most satisfactory. The year following he went to Corea and Japan, 

 having previously engaged Mr. A. E. Pratt to collect insects in North Syria. The 

 expedition to Eastern Asia was eminently successful as regards the entomological results, 

 but it was attended by many unpleasant incidents connected with his travels. 



Early in April he arrived at Foochow, in Eastern China, where a houseboat was 

 placed at his disposal, which enabled him to explore a good deal of the country through 

 which the rivers Min and Yuen-fu flow. He then journeyed north to the Snowy Valley, 

 near Ningpo, residential accommodation and entertainment being obtained at a Buddhist 

 Monastery in the neighbourhood. 



Nagasaki, in Kiusbiu, the southern island of Japan, was reached next, and here he 

 chartered a small native-built vessel, in which he cruised among the smaller isles and 

 touched at various places on the southern and western coasts of Kiusbiu. 



In June he took passage by steamer to Corea and landed at Fusan, where cholera 

 was prevalent, and as a result of this he was detained and otherwise inconvenienced at 

 each place that he visited during the following two months. At Gensan insects were 

 found in some numbers, and his assistant Mr. Gaston Smith was left there to collect for 

 the remainder of the season ; but he himself returned to Nagasaki at the end of June 

 and thence travelled through Japan, arriving at Hakodate in Yesso, the northern island, 

 on August 5th. Whilst in Yesso he made excursions to Nemoro and the Kurile Isles, but 

 insect-life was not sufficiently in evidence to induce him to remain long away from 

 Hakodate, where a fine assortment of Lepidoptera was obtained during the time he spent 

 there. 



At the end of September he arrived at Yokohama, and whilst there he purchased 

 nearly the whole of the entomological collection belonging to the late Mr. Henry Pryer. 

 Arrangements were also made for natives to collect in Corea, Kiusbiu, and Yesso the 

 following season. 



The late Mr. Lionel de Niceville joined Mr. Leech in an entomological expedition 

 to the North-west Himalayas in 1887. On this occasion the work was carried on chiefly 

 in Kashmir and among the glaciers of Baltistan, the outcome of their united efforts 

 being a valuable collection of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera and some other Natural History 

 objects. Mr. H. McArthur was sent out to the NAY. Himalayas in 1888, and returned 

 there again in 18811, having visited the Malay Peninsula during the winter months. He 

 worked Lahoul and through Ladak up to the Karakoram with grand results. In 1891 

 Capt. Blades Thompson Mas engaged to revisit some of the localities in which 

 Mr. McArthur had previously collected. 



