VI 
FASCICULI MALATENSES 
pheasant on more than one occasion, but we did not come across it ourselves. 
The most interesting specimen obtained was a small Ploceid belonging to a 
genus ( Chlorura ) hitherto only known from the mountains of the Sunda 
Islands and the Phillippine highlands. Altogether, the Batang Padang mount- 
ains, which had previously been explored by Mr. L. Wray of the Perak Museum, 
would undoubtedly yield a rich harvest to any ornithologist who was prepared 
to stay at elevations exceeding three hundred feet for some considerable time, 
and who would be content with quality rather than quantity in his collection. 
With the exception of butterflies, which were very numerous, and amongst 
which were several Tenasserim forms and also a fine new Prioneris , the insects 
were not particularly striking, though small and inconspicuous forms were 
enormously abundant. Among the beetles, red and black Malacoderms of 
various genera were especially noticeable, while a magnificent new species of 
the Longicorn Lysinda, a moth and several Diptera were evidently members 
of the same mimetic association. Dragon flies of all families were very scarce, 
and not more than three species were even observed. The collections of 
invertebrates, so far as they have been worked out, show that the fauna, as 
might be expected, is largely made up of species that are also found in 
Tenasserim on the one hand and the mountains of Borneo and Sumatra on the 
other, while the Burmese element, which is so marked in the lowland fauna 
of the Patani States, is almost absent. 
We stayed at Telom from January 1 6th to 28th, 1902. 
Selangor 
Kuala Lumpur. Kuala Lumpur is the capital of the State of Selangor 
and the administrative centre of the Federated Malay States. While Annan- 
dale was in Upper Perak and the Siamese States, I spent some three months 
in the town, but, with the exception of a few insects captured at light, no 
collections from this locality are included in the present report. The town is 
situated in the midst of a thickly populated mining district, and there is no 
considerable area of jungle nearer than five or six miles. At Batu, about 
seven miles away, there are large limestone caves similar to those at Biserat, 
and a few spiders and other Arthropods, including species of Scutigera , were 
collected there, as well as the ‘ moon snake,’ Coluber taeniurus. 
Semangko Pass. I spent a week in May, 1902, at this locality, which is 
exceptionally well situated for zoological collecting. It is a rest-house on the 
border between Selangor and Pahang, on the main watershed of the Peninsula, 
at a height of two thousand seven hundred feet. On either side the mountains 
rise steeply to over five thousand feet, and the whole country for miles 
