3804 Quadrupeds. 



throughout the Heliconiae and Satyri, of course the Erycinse, and I 

 think the Polyommati, from one species I have examined here. 



" The large Morpho allied to Hecuba is found in most places, but 

 everywhere excessively rare. It only appears in certain states of the 

 weather, — gleamy weather in January, February, June and July, — 

 and then only in places in the forest where trees have fallen, and rarely 

 descends from its usual height of 15 to 20 feet. Here I have watched 

 it till tired ; a long pole won't do, you cannot strike with sufficient 

 force and precision. Perhaps there are more than one species; — I 

 have seen it at Para, Satarem, Obydos, Ega, &c. 



" I have been very busy here, as I collect everything that does 

 not interfere with insect collecting. The commandant here has 

 procured for me two good Indians, who are now making a palm thatch 

 to my canoe, and in two days I am off to the river Cupare, a branch 

 river, which I hear is very rich ; two dead shells of the Anastoma 

 have been brought me from there. The country is everywhere hilly, 

 but the elevation not more than 800 or 1000 feet. The season is ap- 

 proaching, too, of abundance in turtle, fish, &c, and I hope to meet 

 with the Cybdeles, Callianirae, Timetes, Papilios, Diorhinae and Mega- 

 stomas of the Ega district on margins of rivers, as now is the season. 

 Here I have found only one Cybdelis, one common Timetis, the com- 

 mon brown Charaxes ? and Papilio Protesilaus, amongst the cloud of 

 yellows on the river margin. 



"H. W. Bates." 



Occurrence of the Reddish-gray Bat (Vespertilio Nattereri) in Suffolk. — As the 

 Editor of the ' Zoologist ' some time ago requested from his correspondents commu- 

 nications respecting the bats of this country — a request, by the way, which has not been 

 productive of any great visible effect, since for the last two years they seem to have 

 totally ignored the existence of such animals, — I make no apology for saying that an 

 adult male specimen of the reddish-gray bat {Vespertilio Nattereri) was obtained by 

 one of my brothers from a hole in a wall here, on the 5th of July last. I had never 

 to my knowledge seen this species here previously, nor am I aware that its occurrence 

 in Suffolk has hitherto been recorded, although it might have been almost safely pre- 

 sumed, from the circumstance of its having been met with in all the other eastern 

 counties, in which alone, singularly enough, it seems to have appeared. — Alfred New- 

 ton; Elveden Hall, Thetford, February 15, 1853. 



