5662 Quadrupeds. 



it. I have also two new Theclae, two Satyri and two Erycinides. The 

 best of my captures in the Diurnes is a Catagramma, very peculiar 

 and rich in its colours, unlike anything figured by Hevvitson, and as 

 handsome as the finest of those figured in his work : it somewhat 

 approaches Lyca. The next finest thing is a Eurygona, likewise the 

 handsomest of its genus, being crimson ! with black border. I have 

 now three Eurygona? here. Coleoptera are very scarce : in Longicorus 

 two or three new species, — one grand thing being a new species of 

 Anisocerus, nine lines long. 



The birds and monkeys of this upper river are very interesting. 

 I am living, too, in the midst of a nation of Indians not yet reclaimed 

 from the purely savage state, — they are the Caishanas, a very quiet, 

 harmless tribe. There are about 300 of them : some of their houses 

 are about a mile from the village, but the greater part live two days' 

 journey up the river Trenantins : they have no warlike weapons, and 

 do not practice tattooing; they use, however, the Zarabatana and 

 Urari poisons. The journey hither, although accomplished by 

 steamer, is no very light matter, for they neither embark nor dis- 

 embark passengers, and give but a very small allowance for luggage, 

 as the vessel is very small, and almost entirely taken up by an elegant 

 cabin and saloon for twenty passengers. The voyage was an agreeable 

 change to me, after sixteen months' very close work ashore. As to 

 the river I could see no difference in it ; after passing the mouths of 

 the vast tributaries, Japura, J urn a, and Jutahi, no difference was per- 

 ceptible in its breadth : a dead, level country, — perfectly uninterrupted 

 wall of luxuriant light-green forest, with its inextricable maze of lianas, 

 creepers, — one matted, interwoven web, binding together slender 

 feathery palms and gigantic forest trees. The village here is a miser- 

 able little affair of some twenty rickety huts and three or four houses 

 of a rather more decent appearance, one of which was immediately 

 given up to me. T purpose staying and working here for a few weeks, 

 by which time I shall be able to pronounce on the relations of the 

 Fauna with that of other districts. I shall then return to Ega. 



Henry Walter Bates. 



Dr. Leach and the Elephant. — Mr. Spence Bate delivered a lecture at the Ply- 

 mouth Institution and Devon and Cornwall Natural History Society, his subject being 

 the life of Wm. Elford Leach, M.D. In the discussion of the lecture Mr. I. Prideaux, 

 a very intimate friend of Dr. Leach's, gave the following reminiscence, as he stated, 

 of his distinguished neighbour. Although of such a lively and sensitive temper, 



