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Show 1891.] THE NAGA AND KAREN HILLS AND PERAK. 257 Wolseley came along and got me bullocks, and we went on together for a stage. Then m y drivers ran away, and m y cook and I had to drive the carts ourselves, and as I have no gift at all for bullock-driving it took us eight days to reach Mogouk. There were no insects all the way but a few dry-country species such as Antigonus, and one or two Neope bhima at 2000 to 3000 feet. Mogouk is a lovely place, but no Butterflies, so I came to Bemardmyo and found it just as bad. No Lepidoptera or shells. The few Butterflies taken (Zophoessa sura and yama quite common) were all Naga-Hill species except a curious Cellerebia (?) with a sex-mark as in Ypthima (Y. narasingha), which is very scarce. No sign of any Chryso-phanus. No Ilerda but brahma. Bemardmyo is a drearv place in the midst of a vast fern-pasture, stuck all over with charred stumps; for all this country was high forest twenty years ago, and there were no natural meadows, and no flowers, only grass and fern. " The high peak here is 7500 feet, and there are two others nearly as high. The nearest bit of forest is four miles from Bemardmyo, and nearly all above 6000 feet, so that collecting is weary work. I thought that I had come just at the right time, for the grass-burning was over, the grass just springing, and the first showers had fallen. W e had two weeks of bright weather, but since then it rains every day from 9 to 3, clears off at 5, and the nights are clear, cold, and windy, bad for Moths. For the last ten days I have been doing well in beetles, but there are no flower-haunting species like Cetonias. The Moths are just beginning to come out, but there are no Butterflies nor any hope of them. "The forest is singularly fine, full of tree-ferns, better than anything in the Naga Hills, aud the trees are nothing like so much buried in moss and orchids ; so the climate must be much drier than that of Kohima, though the rainfall, 70 inches (at Mogouk 110), is nearly as large. To-morrow I leave for the low country in the Shan State of Momeit; I hope I may come back alive, for the authorities have solemnly warned me against going. All my men have been almost constantly sick, and Longchung has quite broken down, so I leave him here. I have not been very strong myself, so I hope the long voyage to Sumatra will set me up again. This is a desperately expensive country : fowls are 2 to 4 rupees each, and coolies get 1| rupees a day each. At Bemardmyo I luxuriate on commissariat bread and beef, and every one both civil and military has been very kind. " You ask me about the Llimantopterus dohertyi which you described in the Trans. Ent. Soc. The first specimen with the tails quite filiform ( ? ) I caught crawling out of an ant's nest iu the ground. I dug the nest open, but did not find any more. The others were all I think taken flying in broad daylight along the road from Kohima to Kegwema at 5000 to 6000 feet, usually in the morning. They flew heavily and slowly; I noticed a slight offensive smell, much as in Histia flabellicornis. With regard to that superb Campylotes (C. desgodinsi, var. splendida, Elvves), I hardly ever saw such a conspicuous insect; it shone in the jungle like a little fire. I got it in the PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1891, No. XVII. 17 |