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nificent though common moth, Nyctalemon Hector, and the 

 remarkable clear-winged or black-spotted Hestia Lynceus. 



In the immediate neighbourhood of Labuan there are two 

 small islands : one entirely covered with jungle down to the 

 water's edge ; the other formerly jungle-grown, but now for 

 the most part cleared for cocoa-nut plantations, but stUl 

 retaining a small patch of the virgin forest. I paid a visit to 

 the latter, and soon discovered that it abounded in the most 

 magnificent of the jungle species ; for the island, although 

 small, is nearer to the mainland than Labuan, and, in the 

 tangled jungle which has been allowed to remain, the most 

 exquisite dragon-flies vie with the butterflies in beauty. 

 Moreover, a walk under the boughs of the great trees which 

 overhang the beach, and som-etimes impede the passage at 

 high water, gives ample employment for the net, the jungle 

 species coming constantly out and skirting this open space. 

 Here I was sure to meet with species, without difiiculty, 

 which in Labuan I might have searched for all day in vain, 

 such as the beautiful species of Papilio with imderwings as 

 though inlaid with mother-of-pearl — Papilio Bathycles, and 

 the variable P. Euripylus ; or the brilliantly variegated 

 P. Agamemnon. Here, also, a not uncommon insect was 

 Certhosia Cyane, whose wings are elegantly scalloped and 

 richly coloured; or the handsome Iphias Glaucippe, a large, 

 orange-tipped species, not uncommon in China. Many long 

 rows and sails I made to this rich locality ; and thinking that 

 the other island, Pulo Pappan, might be equally rich, I 

 went with my net to visit it, but alas ! I only saw, in all its 

 verdurous depths, two butterflies, both the commonest species 

 of Danais and Terias; and was the more vexed, on my 

 return, to learn that the morning had been remarked in 

 Labuan as one singularly favourable to Lepidoptera, which 



