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were found on Chimborazo (13,353 feet), and on Cayambe up to 

 14,000 feet. Dragonflies were seen higher than 12,000 feet on 

 Pichincha and Cotocachi. 



Of the Hymenoptera, the Ants only have been worked out, by 

 Mr. Peter Cameron, but the collection included a large number 

 of Bees belonging to more than a dozen different genera. 



Messrs. Godman and Salvin, who have examined the Lepi- 

 doptera, report that twenty-nine species of Butterflies were 

 obtained at elevations of 7000 feet and upwards, one of which 

 Pieris xanthodice attains a higher altitude (9000 to 15,000 feet) 

 than was observed in the case of any other butterfly.* A figure 

 of this species is given on p. 357. 



Amongst the Moths, Mr. H. Druce has recognised examples 

 of twenty-three genera, some of which, as Cidaria and Scordylia, 

 were found at an elevation of 13,300 feet, while the loftiest 

 position at which moths were actually obtained was on the very 

 highest point of Guagua Pichincha (15,918 feet). This moth 

 was also the smallest of any taken in Ecuador. 



Amongst the Diptera, Mosquitos were found above 7000 feet 

 at one spot only, the elevation of which was 9000 feet. Spiders 

 were met with on the summits of Corazon and Pichincha, and at 

 other nearly equally elevated positions. 



Crustacea were by no means numerous, but a small Amphi- 

 pod, Hyalella inermis, of which a figure is given (vol. i. p. 361), 

 is remarkable as having been captured in pools round about the 

 Hacienda of Antisana (13,300 feet), and no Amphipod appears to 

 have been hitherto obtained elsewhere at so great an elevation. 



A pretty little Snake, Coronella Whymperi, named by Mr. 

 Boulenger (vol. ii. p. 130) in honour of the traveller, and figured 

 (p. 131), was found on Milligalli at an elevation of 6200 feet. Of 

 this genus it will be recollected we have a representative in our 

 English Coronella loevis, or, as Mr. Boulenger terms it, Coronella 

 amtriaca. The new species, however, in appearance comes 

 nearer to Coronella decorata, Giinther, from Mexico. 



Two small Frogs (Prostherapis Whymperi and Hylodes 

 Whymperi) have likewise been described as new by Mr. Boulenger. 



* Colici8 alticola, however, a new species described by Messrs. Godman 

 and JSalvin, and figured (p. 804), is stated to have been taken on the west side 

 oi Antisana at the height of 10,000 feet. 



