284 FIREFLIES 



palanquin, on foot, and in canoes, more than nine hundred 

 miles. 



1 These fireflies are not seen in the interior except in two or 

 three localities, where portions of the original forest still cover 

 the mountains on which old towns were built. I have seen 

 them at Vohilena, a hill about fifteen hundred feet high, near 

 the valley of the Mananara river, in North Im&rina. 



