a rifle. These trees grew at about 7,000 feet. A pine, called P. taiwanensis, and Tsuga chinensis, were the other conifers he noticed, but the weather was so wet that he could not collect much. The most interesting plant he found was a species of Shortia, not so handsome as the Japanese species. The only other place in the world where this genus is found is in the mountains of North Carolina. This fact makes such a find of extraordinary interest, when the traveller knows enough to appreciate his discoveries himself.
On March 14th, after a wet night, we found the river difficult to cross, but got over without mishap, and at Shashi, a village half-way to Chip- chip, we turned off our former route to the east, ascending through a very pretty hilly country to a place called Suisha, at about 2,500 feet on the shore of a lake known as Lake Candidus, though I do not know by whom it was christened. The hills were here grassy and not rocky, with patches of virgin forest and cultivation, and I saw for the first time that very beautiful bird Urocissa cœrulea, a Magpie with blue back and long tail. I caught quite a number of butterflies that day, all quite Indian in type, of which the best was a Papilio like P. helenus. We put up for the night at a police station on the shore of the lake, where bananas, pine¬ apples and oranges all grow well. Next morning I had a walk through virgin forest, where I did some good collecting, getting a fine Graucalus and a hill partridge, Arboricola crudigularus, also an Anæctochilus out of flower but with beautiful leaves. After lunch we went on by road, and in eight or ten miles came to a village called Gyoshi, where we found a Japanese schoolmaster, named Terauchi, who was quite a good naturalist, and had a lot of birds and animals stuffed by himself. Among these were Swinhoe pheasants, the handsomest bird in the island, and a male Man¬ darin Duck, shot on Lake Candidus, as well as a large flying squirrel distinct from the one found at Arisan, with a red instead of a white breast. He had quite a lot of butterflies very well preserved in paper envelopes, among which I noticed a fine large black Papilio with broad red borders on the hind wings, and white antennæ, quite new to me (it has since been named P. horishanus), and a splendid Thaumantis very like the Chinese T. Howqua. Another very interesting butterfly which I should have much liked to carry off was a small species of Aulocera like A. brahminus of the Himalaya. Among the moths were a very fine specimen of Brahmea from Mt. Randai, probably new, a large Cossus -like species, an Attacus like Atlas, and a Saturnia near S. pyretorum. All this con¬ vinces me that an entomologist who will spend a year in collecting insects in Formosa, where Horisha seems to be one of the most favourable locali¬ ties, will reap a very rich harvest of unusual interest and novelty,
A little below this village was a field of sugar-cane nearly all in flower. After a mile over flat ground we suddenly came to a deep gorge into which we descended by a steep path to the bed of the river, which at this season was a wide expanse of sand on which lay many trunks of trees, washed down by the floods. This valley was the most tropical-looking scenery I had yet seen in the district, and in places reminded me strongly of the Tista valley in Sikkim. A narrow-gauge tramway from Horisha passes
through it. On emerging from a narrow pass in the gorge, we came out
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