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obliged to wade up it or jump from rock to rock to get at 

 them. I went with him one day, but found that the 

 stream was far too rapid and the stones too slippery for 

 me to do anything, so I left it entirely to him, and all the 

 rest of the time we stayed in Batchian he used to be out 

 all day, generally bringing me one, and on good days two 

 or three specimens. I was thus able to bring away with 

 me more than a hundred of both sexes, including perhaps 

 twenty very fine males, though not more than five or six 

 that were absolutely perfect. 



My daily walk now led me, first about half a mile along 

 the sandy beach, then through a sago swamp over a cause- 

 way of very shaky poles to the village of the Tomore 

 people. Beyond this was the forest with patches of new 

 clearing, shady paths, and a considerable quantity of 

 felled timber. I found this a very fair collecting ground, 

 especially for beetles. The fallen trunks in the clearings 

 abounded with golden Buprestida? and curious Brenthidte 

 and longicorns, while in the forest I found abundance of 

 the smaller Curculionidse, many longicorns, and some fine 

 green Carabidae. 



Butterflies were not abundant, but I obtained a few 

 more of the fine blue Papilio, and a number of beautiful 

 little Lycsenidae, as well as a single specimen of the ■\'ery 

 rare Papilio Wallacei, of which I had taken the hitherto 

 unique specimen in the Aru Islands. 



