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down timber, insects were comparatively scarce, with the 

 exception of butterflies, of which I formed a very fine 

 collection. The manner in which I obtained one fine 

 insect was curious, and indicates how fragmentary and 

 imperfect a traveller's collection must necessarily be. I 

 was one afternoon walking along a favourite road through 

 the forest, with my gun, when I saw a butterfly on the 

 ground. It was large, handsome, and quite new to me, 

 and I got close to it before it flew away. I then ob- 

 served that it had been settling on the dung of some 

 carnivorous animal. Thinking it might return to the 

 same spot, I next day after breakfast took my net, 

 and as I approached the place was delighted to see the 

 same butterfly sitting on the same piece of dung, and 

 succeeded in capturing it. It was an entirely new species 

 of great beauty, and has been named by Mr. Hewitson 

 Nymphalis calydona. I never saw another specimen of 

 it, and it was only after twelve years had elapsed that 

 a second individual reached this country from the north- 

 western part of Borneo. 



Having determined to visit Mount Ophir, which is 

 situated in the middle of the peninsula about fifty miles 

 east of Malacca, we engaged six Malays to accompany us 

 and carry our baggage. As we meant to stay at least a 

 week at the mountain, we took with us a good supply of 

 rice, a little biscuit butter and coffee, some dried fish and 



