262 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
18th; Port Dixon, Feb. 19th; Port Swettenham (expedition to 
Kwala Lumpur and Semangko Gap), Feb. 20th-28rd ; Penang, 
Feb. 24th-25th; Pulo Way, Feb. 27th-March 38rd; Colombo, 
March 7th-12th; Aden, March 20th—21st ; Suez, March 26th. 
After entering the Mediterranean we went to Naples, and 
after a short stay there cruised to the Riviera, eventually getting 
to Gibraltar on April 26th, and to Cowes on May 3rd. 
The greater part of the time available in port I spent in 
collecting insects. By this means a good number of specimens 
were obtained, including species of Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera, 
Diptera, Orthoptera, Coleoptera, Heteroptera, and Homoptera, 
the two first-named groups forming the bulk of the collection. 
It is only natural that, when landing for the first time in a 
tropical country, one should feel quite overpowered by the wealth 
of life in every form, the consequence being that many objects of 
the greatest interest either pass unnoticed, or else, if noticed, 
only in the most perfunctory manner. It is entirely otherwise 
at sea, where almost everything that alights on board can be 
either captured or observed, and some creatures, seemingly of 
feeble flight, boarded us at considerable distances from the 
shore. Thus, a moth of the “Thorn” family and a ‘‘ Snout” 
were seen on board far out at sea off the Algerian coast on 
Nov. 25th. A dragonfly, two small moths, two locusts, and a 
beetle joined us in the Red Sea, and when still over one hundred 
miles from Colombo a ‘‘Skipper”’ butterfly came on board. 
When rounding Dronga Head a butterfly (Belenois taprobana) 
appeared on deck, and again, when we were quite four hundred 
miles from Ceylon en route for Pulo Way, a Sphingid moth 
(Cherocampa theylia) was captured. In the Straits of Malacca I 
had quite an exciting evening (Jan. 25th), quite a number of 
large Cicadas boarding us and making a great noise as they flew 
up against the deck-awnings; two species of Macroglossa and 
other moths also came on board that evening, as well as a large 
beetle. We also had visits from birds—Larks, Chaffinches, and 
a Starling accompanying us in the Mediterranean to Port Said— 
and quite a number of spring migrants joining us on the journey 
home. House-Sparrows came on board when we were rounding 
Ushant, quite forty miles from land, on May Ist. 
It would be tedious to go through the numerous delightful 
