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and varied here than anywhere else in the Archipelago. 

 I first met with them on a cutting in the road, where 

 a hard clayey bank was partially overgrown with mosses 

 and small ferns. Here, I found running about, a small 

 olive-green species which never took flight ; and more 

 rarely a fine purplish black wingless insect, which was 

 always found motionless in crevices, and was therefore 

 probably nocturnal. It appeared to me to form a new 

 genus. About the roads in the forest, I found the large 

 and handsome Cicindela heros, which I had before obtained 

 sparingly at Macassar ; but it was in the mountain torrent 

 of the ravine itself that I got my finest things. On dead 

 trunks overhanging the water and on the banks and foliage, 

 I obtained three very pretty species of Cicindela, quite 

 distinct in size, form, and colour, but having an almost 

 identical pattern of pale spots. I also found a single 

 specimen of a most curious species with very long antenna?. 

 But my finest discovery here was the Cicindela gloriosa, 

 which I found on mossy stones just rising above the water. 

 After obtaining my first specimen of this elegant insect, I 

 used to walk up the stream, watching carefully every 

 moss-covered rock and stone. It was rather shy, and 

 would often lead me a loner chase from stone to stone, 

 becoming invisible every time it settled on the damp 

 moss, owing to its rich velvety green colour. On some 

 days I could only catch a few glimpses of it, on others I 



