5116 Zoology of Borneo. 



Carabidae and Cicindelidse ... 70 species. 



Buprestidae 100 „ 



Elateridae 125 „ 



Cleridae 41 „ 



Cetouiadae 22 „ 



Thus it will be seen that the Rhyncophora are more than a fourth, 

 and the Longicorns a seventh, of all the Coleoptera, while the 

 Geodephaga are only a fourteenth, and the Cetoniadae a nineteenth. 



On the whole the Coleoptera may be said to contain a few very 

 large and a few very handsome species, a large number of moderate, 

 size and of very varied and elegant forms, while the great mass of 

 them are small and obscure. These remarks will also apply, in a 

 great measure, to the Hymenoptera, Hemiptera and Diptera. The 

 Orthoptera, however, are more truly tropical in appearance, containing 

 many large, singular and beautiful insects. 



The diurnal Lepidoptera are comparatively few and uninteresting, 

 most of the species being also found in Java and Malacca: there are, 

 however, a few striking exceptions among the larger species ; Papilio 

 Payeni, Bois., P. Neptunus, G-uer., a new species allied to P. Codrus, 

 and the magnificent Ornithoptera Brookiana, are the most remarkable; 

 and there is also a sufficient sprinkling of the small Lycaenidae and 

 Erycinidae to show that many other fine things may be expected when 

 the interior shall be better known. 



In the nocturnal species I have been more successful, though I only 

 found one spot where they could be obtained : this w T as a cottage at 

 an elevation of 1000 feet on a mountain ridge, surrounded by jungle 

 and fruit trees. Here, on dark wet nights, they came to a lamp in the 

 verandah, so plentifully as sometimes to keep me incessantly employed 

 for several hours : I have taken as many as 200 specimens and 120 

 species in one night ! but such occasions were rare, and I would often 

 pass a week or ten days without obtaining a dozen specimens. On 

 dry and fine nights there were none, neither on wet nights, if it was 

 moonlight ; but I do not remember one occasion on which it was both 

 dark and wet that I did not obtain a very plentiful harvest. Some of 

 the Noctuas and Geometrae are very beautiful, and many present 

 singular forms of antennae, palpi and legs, not observed in European 

 species. 



I will now say a few words as to my future plans. The two years 

 which I have now spent in the East 1 consider as, in a great measure, 

 preliminary or preparatory to the main object of my journey, which is 

 to investigate the less known islands of the Eastern part of the Archi- 



