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species of crotaliiie snake {TTalys acutus). This was 

 found at Wu-suili, about tliree days' journey from the 

 bungalow, which place has now attained an unen- 

 viable notoriety for anti-European riots. Having 

 completed my series of them, I refused to purchase 

 another specimen from a Chinese collector, and he 

 thereupon threw it among my children, who were in the 

 verandah, witli the charitable intention that one of them 

 might be bitten. I am happy to say that his design 

 was frustrated, as the poisonous reptile was promptly 

 killed before it had time to do any harm. While here, 

 one of my collectors was bitten on the thumb by a 

 small red and black snake. His arm swelled very 

 much, and on sending him to Kiu-kiang Dr. Under- 

 wood found it necessar}^ to amputate his thumb. He 

 resumed his work as soon as he was able, but one day 

 had the misfortune to hit the still unhealed wound 

 against a branch. This caused it to bleed so much 

 that he witli difficultv reached the l^uno-alow, where he 

 nearly fainted, and he had to be sent down a second 

 time, in a chair, to Kiu-kiang for treatment. 



In addition to formini^ these collections I had a 

 large number of the larvae and pupas of Lepidoptera 

 under observation, and found that procuring suitable 

 food for the former occupied a good deal of time. 



Xear this place is a celebrated manufactory of china, 



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