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fouiid only in Java, and even seem to be confined to its 

 western portion, In a week I oLtained no less than 

 twenty- four species of binls, wLieli I hud not found in 

 tlie east of the island, and in a fortnight tliis number 

 increased to forty species, almost all of whieh are peculiar 

 to the Javanese fauna. Large and handsome bntterfhes 

 were also tolerably abundant. In dark ravines, and occa- 

 sionaEy on the roadside, I capturetl the fwiperb Papilio 

 arjuna, whose wings seem powdered with grains of golden 

 green, condensed into bands and moon-shaped spots ; while 

 the elegantly-formed Papilio coon was soDJetimes to be 

 fouud tl uttering slowly along the sliady pathways (see 

 figure at page 1'29). One day a boy brought me a b«tter- 

 lly between his fingers, perfectly unhurt. He had caught 

 it as it was sitting with wings erect, sucking up the hcjnid 

 from a muddy spot by the roadside. Many of tiie tines t 

 tropical butterflies have tMs habit, and they are genemlly 

 so intent upon their meal that they can be easily a]>- 

 proached and captured. It proved to be tiie rare and 

 curious Chai-axes kadenii, remarkable for ha^ang on each 

 hind %ving two curv^ed tails like a pair of caUiper.s. It was 

 the only specimen I ever saw, and is still the only repre- 

 sentative of its kind in English collections. 



In the east of Java I had suffered from the intense heat 

 and drought of the diy season, whieh had been very 

 inimical to insect life. Here I had got into the other 

 extreme of damp, wet, and cloudy weather, which was 

 equally unfavourable. During the month wliieh I spent 

 in the interior of West Java, I never had a really hot fine 

 day throughout. It rained almost every afternoon, or 

 dense mists came down from the mountains, winch equally 

 stopped collecting, and rendered it most difficult to dry my 

 specimens, so that I really liad no chance of getting a fair 

 sample of Javanese entomology. 



By far the most interesting incident in my visit to Java 

 was a trip to the summit of the Pangerango and Gedeb 

 moimtainsj the former an extinct volcanic cone aboub 

 10,000 feet high, the latter an active crater on a lower 

 portion of the same mountain range. Tchipanas, about 

 four miles over the Megjunendong Pass, is at the foot of 

 the moimtain. A small cuuntiy house for the Governor- 



