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three in the afternoon, and it took me six hours' work at 

 home to pin and set out all the specimens, and to separate 

 the species. Although I had already been working this 

 spot daily for two months and a half, and had obtained 

 over 800 species of Coleoptera, this day's work added 32 

 new ones. Among these were 4 Longicorns, 2 Carabida?, 

 7 Staphylinidse, 7 Curculionidse, 2 Copridse, 4 Chrysomelidse, 

 3 Heteromera, 1 Elater, and 1 Buprestis. Even on the 

 last day I went out, 1 obtained 16 new species ; so that 

 although I collected over a thousand distinct sorts of 

 beetles in a space not much exceeding a square mile 

 during the three months of my residence at Dorey, I 

 cannot believe that this represents one half the species 

 really inhabiting the same spot, or a fourth of what might 

 be obtained in an area extending twenty miles in each 

 direction. 



On the 22d of July the schooner Hester Helena arrived, 

 and five days afterwards we bade adieu to Dorey, without 

 much regret, for in no place which I have visited have 1 

 encountered more privations and annoyances. Continual 

 rain, continual sickness, little wholesome food, with a 

 plague of ants and flies, surpassmg anything I had before 

 met with, required all a naturalist's ardour to encounter ; 

 and when they were uncompensated by great success in 

 collecting, became all the more insupportable. This long- 

 thought-of and much-desired voyage to New Guinea had 



