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I obtained three species, one I think new. This group is eminently 

 beautiful. They fly with the greatest rapidity of any Papilios ; the 

 eye can scarcely follow them ; in fact, they much resemble in habit the 

 humming Sphinxes, and hover over flowers, or more frequently over 

 damp places on the ground, with a constant vibration of the wings. 

 P. Antiphates is the only species of the Protesilaus group, and is not 

 very common. The grand P. Memnon flies very rapidly, and seldom 

 settles. P. Iswara, and another species allied to P. Helenus, but 

 I think new, have an undulating flight, very like that of the South 

 American Morphos, or even sometimes approaching that of the large 

 Noctuidae, and they rest with the upper wings deflexed over the lower. 

 The beautiful P. Polydorus flies weak and low, exactly like P. iEneas 

 and allied species in South America. Then there are the elegant 

 white and black marked species, P. Delessertii, P. Leucothoe, P. Nox, 

 and a very fine species allied to Coon, which (if it is not P. Neptunus, 

 Guer., of which I have no description) is quite new. But my greatest 

 treasure among the Papilios was a magnificent green and gold pow- 

 dered species, which (if it is not P. Crino or P. Brama) is also new. 

 If we add to the above, Papilio Epius, P. Demolion, P. Pammon, and 

 P. Tetrarchus, we have a series which for variety of form and colour- 

 ing, as well as for size and beauty, no country can surpass. 



But though we may claim for the Eastern Papilionidae, and also for 

 the Pieridae, a superiority over those of America, it is far different in 

 other groups. The Euplaeas, though very beautiful, cannot compete 

 with the exquisite Heliconidse, to which they are so closely allied ; 

 neither have I yet met with any Nymphalidae here which can compare 

 with the Epicalias, the Callitheas and the Catogrammas of the Amazon. 

 I obtained, however, several fine species of Charaxes and Adolias. 

 The Cyllo Lowii of Borneo also occurs at Malacca, and the lovely 

 little long-tailed Lycaenidae are the only group that at all compete with 

 the Erycinidae of America. 



Turning now to the Coleoptera, the most remarkable feature is the 

 almost total absence of those hosts of elegantly varied Longicorns 

 which so delighted me at Singapore. The beetles altogether were 

 exceedingly small and scarce, requiring the most persevering search 

 to find any at all : yet they were very different from those of Singa- 

 pore, and (principally through the persevering efforts of Mr. G. Rappa, 

 a gentleman of Malacca, who spent a month with me in the jungle, 

 and accompanied me to Mount Ophir) I was enabled to add 260 spe- 

 cies to my already extensive collection. 



The Therates dimidiata of the Singapore jungle was replaced at 

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