NOTE ON THE INSECTS OF SUKKER- 

 TOPPEN. 



BY L. J. W. JOYNER. 



OWING to the loss (together with 

 note-books) of my collection of in- 

 sects, of which a very fair number 

 had been captured, no attempt at 

 any list, much less a classification, 

 can be made. The field appeared to 

 offer good opportunity to the en- 

 tomologist during the prevalence of 

 the brief heat of summer. Though 

 coleopterous insects were expected 

 in some abundance, a most careful 

 search revealed only a few speci- 

 J mens. On the other hand, many 

 species of the order Diptera simply swarmed, and more than 

 one species of the genus Culex ; but a single species of mos- 

 quito, considering the swarms in which they occurred, would 

 have been quite sufficient to arouse the keenest interest of an 

 average or casual observer. Acting on the principle of " Live 

 and let live/' I always make a point of never disturbing a 

 mosquito at his meal ; but in Greenland I was absolutely brutal 

 and unreasonable. Most of us can testify to the fact that, in 

 spite of the cooler climate, and the consequent harder con- 

 ditions of their life up there, these mosquitoes were by no 

 means slothful. Some of the flies, too (particularly when one 

 was busy fishing), left one's face smeared with so many verti- 

 cal lines of clotted blood that it had to be scraped before recog- 



