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ETHNOLOGICAL NOTES. 
Service, they went to the foot of the hill and built a 
new house there. This place is called Sibuti, on account 
of a certain bamboo, called “ buti ” by the Dayaks 
(= Malay muti), which grew there in abundance; and 
the present village of Quop now occupies this site. 
S’Mara was appointed Pengara and in his time the 
Mission station was founded at Quop by the Rev. 
Chambers (circ. i860). This Pengara was succeeded 
by S'Nganyah who was made Orang Kaya. S'Jauu 
succeeded him as Orang Kaya and was himself succeeded 
by S’Ngirin who was appointed by Mr. Maxwell at 
Quop. (The usual custom being for the new Orang 
Kaya to come to Kuching to receive his appointment). 
He was succeeded by the present Tua Kampong S'Diboi , 
w'ho has not yet been made Orange Kaya. There have 
thus been six “ chiefs ” of Quop since its foundation 
(1840-50). 
[From notes supplied by the Revd. Ah Luk, of the 
S.P.G. Mission, Quop .] 
An Insect Omen. 
Dr. Haddon* has published a list of the “ Omen 
Animals of Sarawak ” and in it mention is made of some 
insect omens observed by the natives of Sarawak. I give 
the following note as it is not mentioned in his list. 
I happened to be asking a Sea-Dayak (one Pengulu 
Ayoom of Busong, Rejang), the Dayak names for some 
moths which I wms showing to him in the Museum. 
He pointed to some humming-bird haw 7 k-moths 
{Macroglossum spp.) and said they were called “ buia 
babi,” explaining the name thus: if one of these moths 
came into a Dayak house and was caught, they would tie 
a piece of string to it and then throw 7 it down the stairs 
of the house ; if then it fell with a kind of a thud it 
would be regarded as a good omen and they w 7 ould 
certainly get a pig that day; but if it made a kind of 
crackling noise, it would be regarded as a bad omen and 
a pig-hunt w r as certainly of no use that day. According 
to the Dayak this was the only kind of moth that could 
be used for this omen, although I showed him several 
drawers containing many different kinds. 
* Head-hunters, Black, White and Byown, by A. C. Haddon, Sc. D. 
F.R.S., 1901, pp. 384-385. 
