32 VOYAGE TO BATCHIAN. [chap, xxiii. 



Buprestidae, green rose-cliafers (Lomaptera), and long-horned 

 weevils (Anthribidte), were so abundant that they rose up 

 in swarms as I walked along, filling the air with a loud 

 buzzing hum. Along with these, several fine Longicorns 

 were almost equally common, forming such an assemblage 

 as for once to realize that idea of tropical luxuriance which 

 one obtains by looking over the drawers of a well -filled 

 cabinet. On the under sides of the trunks clung numbers 

 of smaller or more sluggish Longicorns, while on the 

 branches at the edge of the clearing others could be 

 detected sitting with outstretched antennae ready to take 

 flight at the least alarm. It was a glorious spot, and one 

 which will always live in my memory as exhibiting the 

 insect-life of the tropics in unexampled luxuriance. For 

 the three following days I continued to visit this locality, 

 adding each time many new species to my collection— the 

 following notes of which may be interesting to entomo- 

 logists. October loth, 33 species of beetles; 16th, 70 

 species ; 17th, -17 species ; 18th, 40 species ; 19th, 56 

 species — in all about a hundred species, of which forty 

 were new to me. There were forty-four species of Longi- 

 corns among them, and on the last day I took twenty- 

 eight species of Longicorns, of which five were new to me. 

 My boys were less fortunate in shooting. The only 

 birds at all common were the great red parrot (Eclectus 

 grandis), found in most of the Moluccas, a crow, and a 



