INDEX. 



Accipiter rubricollis, 393 



Action of crabs on coral mud flata, 25 



Agaristidas, members of, mimicked by 

 other Lepidoptera, 173 



Agassiz, Prof., on coral reefs 3G, 40 ; 

 on Tortuga and Florida Reefs, 37 



Agrostemma montanum, 78 



Albino, Senlior, his kindness, 416 



Alefuros cf Burn, 392, 334 



Alexander the Great, 178, 194 ; grave 

 of, 260 



Amadina insularis, 422 



Ambil-anak, a form of mair age in the 

 Lampongs, 15 1 ; in Fassumah Lands, 

 196 



Amhlypodia eumnlpus, 137 



Amboina, arrival in, 288 ; first im- 

 pressions of, 288; visit interior of, 



289 ; people of, 290; churches in, 



290 ; salubrity of, 298; kindness of 

 the Captain of the Cbinese in, 288, 

 2a7 ; Resident of, 288 



Air.ssiajuven's, mimicking in, 139 

 Amher$tia nobilis, 9 

 Amnosia decora, 172 ; habits of, 173 

 Amnosia eudamia, new species. 275 

 Amorphophallvs Utanum, 10,175; great 



tubers of, 227 

 Anacropora forbesi, new genus and 



species of corals from Keeliug 



Islands, 44 

 Anaphnlis javanica, 210; saxatilis, 210 

 Anak Dalom, romance of, 158 

 Anchors, three, dredged up at Menado, 



486; list of organisms adhering to 



them, 496 

 Anjer, visit to, in 1878, 11; view of 



Sunda Straits from, 11; stay at, 161; 



last look of, 488 

 Anous stolidus, 32 

 Antelope, Sumatran, 172 

 Antennarii, 23 

 A nthracoeerus convexus, 252 

 Anthers, two forms of, in Melastoma, 



229 

 Anthropomorphous apes, resemblance 



of the Kubus to the, 243 



36 



Anthits medius, 459 



Ants inhabiting Myrmecodia and IIi/- 



nophytum, 79 ; at species of Hafflesi- 



aceiB, 206 ; milking winged Remip- 



tera, 251 

 Appiae nero, note on coloration of sexes 



of, 130 

 Apis dorsata, habits of, 478 

 Aprosmictus huruensis, 393 

 Arabida Hills, 1 

 Arachia liypogsea, 392 

 Arhorophila personata, 172 

 Argus pheasants, 130; habits of, 131 

 Arms of Timorese, 463 

 Aru, touch at, 300 

 Alt, unknown to the Kubus, 236; 



among Timor-laiit islanders, 317 

 Artaxa simulans, mimicry of, 173 

 Artistic taste among Solorese, 285 

 Artocarpus inciaa, 334, 438 

 Arundina speciosa, fertilisation of, 88, 



91-94, 96 

 Asparagus racemosus, 471 

 Astictopterus armatms, 215 

 Attack on our house at Fatunaba, 400 



Babirusa in Buru, 407 ; native account 



of its habits, 407 

 Badui, curious race of people in Java, 



102, 103 

 BagUHla, Bay of, 290 

 Ualai, the, a Lanipung institution, 140 ; 



desorij)tion of, 141 ; equivalent of in 



Buru, 3J4 . 

 Balih sumpa, superstitions attaching to 



til is tree, 228 

 Ball, foot-, in the Lampongs, 149 

 Baluai of Amboina, 293 

 Bauhinia, great beauty of, 252 

 Bantam, Sultan of, 144 ; influence of, 



in the Lampongs, 144; roads in, 52;. 



Sundanese in, 52 ; rice cultivation in, 



52 

 Banteng, in Java, IIG 

 Banda, birils in, 287 ; calls at, 286 

 Baeeia sp., corollas of, 233 

 Bastian, Prof, on \Vak>Io-Buruese, 402 



