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Wolseley came along and got me bullocks, and we went on together 

 for a stage. Then my drivers ran away, and my cook and I had to 

 drive the carts ourselves, and as I have no gift at all for bullock- 

 driving it took us eight days to reach Mogouk. There were no 

 insects all the way but a few dry-country species such as Antigonus, 

 and one or two Neope bliima at 2000 to 3000 feet. Mogouk is a 

 lovely place, but no Butterflies, so I came to Bernardmyo and found 

 it just as bad. No Lepidoptera or shells. The few Butterflies 

 taken (Zophocssa sura and i/ama quite common) were all Naga-Hill 

 species except a curious Cellerebia (?) with a sex-mark as in Yptlxima 

 {Y. narasinglia), which is very scarce. No sign of any Cliryso- 

 phanus. No Ilerda but hrahna. Bernardmyo is a dreary place in 

 the midst of a vast fern-pasture, stuck all over with charred stumps; 

 for all this country was high forest twenty years ago, and there were 

 no natural meadows, and no flowers, only grass and fern. 



" The high peak here is 7500 feet, and there are two others nearly 

 as high. The nearest bit of forest is four miles from Bernardmyo, 

 and nearly all above 6000 feet, so that collecting is weary work. T 

 thought that I had come just at the right time, for the grass-burning 

 was over, the grass just springing, and the first showers had fallen. 

 We had two weeks of bright weather, but since then it rains every 

 day from 9 to 3, clears off at 5, and the nights are clear, cold, and 

 windy, bad for Moths. For the last ten days I have been doing well 

 in beetles, but there are no flower-haunting species like Cetonias. 

 The Moths are just beginning to come out, but there are no 

 Butterflies nor any hope of them. 



"The forest is singularly fine, full of tree-ferns, better than 

 anything in the Naga Hills, and the trees are nothing like so much 

 buried in moss and orchids ; so the climate must be much drier than 

 that of Kohima, though the rainfall, 70 inches (at Mogouk 110), is 

 nearly as large. To-morrow I leave for the low country in the Shan 

 State of Momeit ; I hope I may come back alive, for the authorities 

 have solemnly warned me against going. All my men have been 

 almost constantly sick, and Longchung has quite broken down, so I 

 leave him here. I have not been very strong myself, so I hope the 

 long voyage to Sumatra will set me up again. This is a desperately 

 expensive country : fowls are 2 to 4 rupees each, and coolies get 1| 

 rupees a day each. At Bernardmyo I luxuriate on commissariat 

 bread and beef, and every one both civil and military has been very 

 kind. 



"You ask me about the Himaatopterus dohertyi which you de- 

 scribed in the Trans. Ent. Soc. The first specimen with the tails quite 

 filiform (?) I caught crawling out of an ant's nest in the ground. I 

 dug the nest open, but did not find any more. The odiers were all 

 I think taken flying in broad daylight along the road from Kohima 

 to Kegwema at 5000 to 6000 feet, usually in the morning. They 

 flew heavily and slowly; I noticed a slight offensive smell, much as 

 in Histia flahellicornis. With regard to that superb Gampylotes 

 (C desgoditisi, var. splendida, Elwes), I hardly ever saw such a con- 

 spicuous insect; it shone in the jungle like a little fire. I got it in the 



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