CHAP. V. WALKS IN THE LANES OF MACIIACIIL 117 



an almost perfect stillness reigned — the air was scarcely dis- 

 turbed by the noiseless flight of the gigantic moths, and the 

 gentle twittering of the little birds making snug for their long 

 night. 



Our rooms became a museum, and sometimes almost a mena- 

 gerie. Aided by a troop of willing helpers, never a day passed 

 without acquiring things that had not been seen before ; ^ for 



"The Almighty Maker has throughout 

 Discriminated each from each, by strokes 

 And touches of his hand, with so much art 

 Diversified, that two were never found 

 Twins at all points." 



In these pursuits I was much assisted by the tambo-keeper, 

 who interested himself in furthering our work. He introduced 

 me to Cyclopium cyclopuni, the only fish in the interior — a high- 

 bred fish, with a string of names that a Duke might envy ; ^ and 

 was the means of procuring the first Ampliipod collected in 

 Ecuador. '' Senor Antonio, ^^ I said to him one day, " Mr. James 

 Orton, M.A., Professor of Natural History in Vassar College, 

 New York, observes ^ that the only crustacean found in the 

 interior ' is a small cray-fish abounding in the filthy, stagnant 

 waters about Quito. ^ Now couldn^t you raise a crab or a shrimp, 

 or something of that kind, for it is very sad to think that there 

 are no crustaceans in Ecuador." The good man did not know 

 whether I was speaking in jest or in earnest, so I set to work 

 with my pencil to enlighten him, and invented forms which it 



1 One afternoon we made an excursion to a ^a«.eci?Zo on Corazon, and b^at the 

 bushes into an old umbrella. So far as they are determined, everything obtained 

 was new. The following species are included in the Supplementary Appendix. 

 Coleoptera : — Cercometes Andicola, Olliff (p. 58) ; Fandeletius argentatus, Olliflf 

 (p. 62) ; Aphthona Ecuadoriensis^ Jacoby (p. 85) ; and Biholia viridh, Jacoby 

 (p. 86). Khynchota : — Margus tibialis, ffarmostes Corazonus, H. montivagus, 

 Diomjza variegata, and Lygus excelsus (pp. 113-4). Most of these species were 

 obtained only at this locality. 



2 See iSiqop. Ax)p., pp. 137-9. 3 In The American Naturalist, 1872, p. 650. 



