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Northward from Ritabel, our village, the shore of the channel 

 was dotted with detached coral boulders, on each of which 

 several corpses reposed, whence the most fearful stench used 

 especially after rain, to come down the wind. Whether this, or 

 the ConvolvulaceiB and creeping Papilionacete that flowered in 

 abundance there, was the attracting cause I cannot say ; but 

 certain it is that these most pestiferous spots were our richest 



butterfly grounds. There A caught the new Hypolymnas 



forhesii, Terias laratensis, and among many others two different 

 species, Calliplcea visenda and Chanapa saeerdos — which it was 

 next to impossible to distinguish on the wing from their 

 mimicking each other — both new to science, while the lovely 

 Ptilopns tcallacn frequented in crowds the fig-trees that over- 

 hung this foetid shore. 



