O4. AN EXPEDITION TO MOUNT BATU LAWI. 
average jar measures 2 ft. 9 in. in height and some 5 ft. in cireum- 
ference; they hold about 23 gallons so that some 800 gallons in all 
were awaiting consuimption! ‘Tama Kuling wanted our party to 
stay for this great feast, but as they talked of being drunk for a 
week or more I decided against it, though by doing so it became 
difficult. to get coolies enough to follow; our boats’ crews being in- 
sufficient to carry food and baggage over the land journey. As men- 
tioned before, from the kuala Madihit two routes to Batu Lawi 
offered, one to the Adang villages and then south to the mountain, 
the other up the Madihit and then due east for an indefinite number 
of days—some said three, others ten. ‘The majority of the Adang 
people were expected at the feast, so it was regarded as useless to 
expect to get coolies from their houses, besides the rumours of un- 
pleasant feeling between them and the Dayaks with me, which we 
had heard down-river, were confirmed here, so we decided on the 
Madihit route. Tama Kuling himself naturaliy could not leave 
all his guests to accompany us, so he deputed an elderly Kalabit, 
Penribut by name, to take charge of us. He was the head of the 
furthest house up the Madihit and was said to know the way at 
Batu Lawi. I went up the hill behind the house in the evening 
(800 ft.) and enjoyed a fine view of the surrounding hills though 
we were not high enough up to see the lofty mountains of the 
interior. In the evening we all warmed up over two bottles of gin 
Gay contribution) and one jar of tuach (from Tama Kuling). 
The Kalabits seemed a little apprehensive and uncertain of our 
intentions when we arrived, but night time saw us all on quite 
friendly terms. ‘Tama Kuling expects Penribut and his men to 
come in to-morrow as they have been invited to the feast. We 
kept it up to a late hour that night and when I woke next morning 
some of the “ hard cases” were still at it. 
May 16th: (Temp. in house 7.30 am. 74°). The collectors 
and I went off collecting this morning into the jungle on the hill 
behind the house, two with guns and others with butterfly nets. I 
was lucky enough to find a Lycaenid butterfly (Allotinus nivalis) in 
the act of attending an. Homopterous larva. The Museum collectors 
had reported this phenomenon on several occasions before from 
different places and I communicated the substance of their obser- 
vations to the Entomological Society of London,* but I had not 
then been able to make the observations myself. I first saw the 
butterfly cross my path and allight on the upperside of a twig, per- 
haps three feet from the ground, then it walked slowly round to the 
underside of this twig and approached a small whitish “ mouldy ”— 
looking larva (Homopterous?), on which were standing two very 
‘small black ants apparently feeding. ‘The butterfly, when close 
enough, stood there protruding its tongue gently on to the larva, 
*Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1910. pp. xxxviii-xli. ‘‘A Lycaenid in attendance 
on an Homopteron’”’ and ‘‘A further note on a Lycaenid in attendance on an 
Homopteron.”’ 
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