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according to the postal regulations of the country; that is well 
worth the small extra charge. It is as well to carry with you from 
England labels, good string, brown paper and sealing wax, since it 
is often difficult to get these things, especially brown paper. By 
adopting these precautions I have never lost a consignment, and 
have had but one box seriously damaged in the post. Surely when 
the cost of a long voyage is considered, it is unwise in the extreme 
to be in any way mean in the after treatment of one’s captures. By 
sending home frequent small consignments the risk of loss or damage 
is divided. The brass dropping-bottles for chloroform supplied by 
Messrs. Watkins and Doncaster are very convenient. A reserve of 
chloroform 1 should be carried in larger metal bottles, but care should 
be taken not to Jill them too fully or the expansion of the fluid in 
the tropics is apt to burst the bottles. Forceps and other special 
apparatus should be carried in duplicate. 
Very nearly all the insects taken in the voyages herein described 
have been added to the Hope Collection in the University Museum 
at Oxford, and the note-books relating to them will ultimately go 
into the Hope Library. 
Naturally in a rapid tour of this kind, much of the time spent in 
towns, there was small probability of turning up anything new, but 
it is hoped that some of the observations made (even on the commonest 
species) may throw a glimmer of light on some of those questions of 
Bionomics which are now attracting the attention of naturalists. 
I. INDIA. 
Simla, lat. 31° N., alt. 7200 ft. 
In reference to the seasonal variation of many species it may be 
remarked that at Bombay on October 2nd and 3rd there was heavy 
rain, the tail-end of the monsoon. It was held to be a very late 
season, the rain had lingered and the cold weather was delayed. 
My collecting at Simla was confined to a riding expedition along 
the old Hindustan-Tibet road. This is an excellent riding-path, 
patted down as it is by the bare feet of the natives and the great 
pads of the camels so as to afford a smooth surface such as is seldom 
seen in mountain roads. The track follows the watershed of the 
Sutlej and Jumna, cut at one time on the hot and dusty, almost 
treeless, southern side of the mighty ridge, where the terraced slopes 
1 Chloroform bought at the best druggist in Car&cas would scarcely kill large 
moths; apparently it had been diluted with alcohol. 
