the very finest butterfly of the genus; and a large black wasp-
like insect, with immense jaws like a stag-beetle, which has been
named Megachile Pluto by Mr. B. Smith. I collected about a
hundred species of beetles quite new to me, but mostly very
minute, and also many rare and handsome ones which I had already
found in Batchian. On the whole I was tolerably satisfied with my
seventeen days' excursion, which was a very agreeable one, and
enabled me to sea a good deal of the island. I had hired a roomy
boat, and brought with me a small table and my rattan chair.
These were great comforts, as, wherever there was a roof, I could
immediately instal myself, and work and eat at ease. When I could
not find accommodation on shore I slept in the boat, which was
always drawn up on the beach if we stayed for a few days at one
spot.

On my return to Batchian I packed up my collections, and prepared
for my return to Ternate. When I first came I had sent back my
boat by the pilot, with two or three other men who had been glad
of the opportunity. I now took advantage of a Government boat
which had just arrived with rice for the troops, and obtained
permission to return in her, and accordingly started on the 13th
of April, having resided only a week short of six months on the
island of Batchian. The boat was one of the kind called "Kora-
kora," quite open, very low, and about four tons burthen. It had
outriggers of bamboo about five feet off each side, which
supported a bamboo platform extending the whole length of the
vessel. On the extreme outside of this sit the twenty rowers,
while within was a convenient passage fore and aft. The middle
portion of the boat was covered with a thatch-house, in which
baggage and passengers are stowed; the gunwale was not more than