1890.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 69 



News, especially those who have not had the pleasure of reading 

 Dr. Wallace's work will be interested in it, and that Entomo- 

 logical News is chiefly devoted to this kind of literature I take 

 pleasure in quoting the following passage: " While collecting on 

 the island of Borneo what occupied me most was the great abun- 

 dance of moths which, on certain occasions, I was able to capture. 

 As during the whole eight years' wanderings in the East I never 

 found another spot where these insects were at all plentiful, it 

 will be interesting to state the exact conditions under which I 

 here obtained them. On the one side of the cottage there was 

 a verandah looking down the whole side of the mountain, and to 

 its summit on the right all densely clothed with forest. The 

 boarded sides of the cottage were whitewashed and the roof of 

 the verandah was low and whitewashed. As soon as it became 

 dark I placed my lamp on the table against the wall and with pins, 

 insect-forceps, net and collecting-boxes by my side, sat down 

 with a book. Sometimes during the whole evening only a soli- 

 tary moth would visit me, while on other nights they would pour 

 in in a continual stream, keeping me hard at work catching and 

 pinning till past midnight, as they came literally by thousands. 

 These good nights were very few. During the four weeks that 

 I spent altogether on the hill I only had four really good nights, 

 and these were always rainy, and the best of them soaking wet, 

 but wet, rainy nights, were not always good, for a rainy moon- 

 light night produced next to nothing. All the chief tribes of 

 moths were represented, and the beauty and variety of the species 

 was very great. On good nights I was able to capture from a 

 hundred to two nundred and fifty moths, and these comprised on 

 each occasion from half to two-thirds that number of distinct 

 species. Some of them would settle on the wall, some on the 

 table, while many would fly up to the roof and gave me a chase 

 all over the verandah before I could secure them. 



(To be continued.) 



Note. — By a slip of the pen I quoted Mr. Blanchard incor- 

 rectly in the April News. Corymbitey crassus is the female of 

 divaricates, and 7wt as I there stated of inflatus. — G. H. Horn. 



