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INSECTS COLLECTED. 
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We were now busy packing up our first collection of 
insects to send to England. In just two months we had 
taken the large number of 550 species of Lepidoptera, 
of which more than 400 were butterflies, 350 beetles, 
and 400 of other orders, making in all 1300 species of 
insects. 
Mr. Leavens decided on making the Tocantins trip, 
and we agreed to start in a week, looking forward with 
much pleasure to visiting a new and unexplored dis- 
trict. 
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