Travel Reference
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In the east of Java I had suffered from the intense heat and drought of the dry season,
which had been very inimical to insect life. Here I had got into the other extreme of damp,
wet, and cloudy weather, which was equally unfavourable. During the month which I spent
in the interior of west Java, I never had a really hot fine day throughout. It rained almost
every afternoon, or dense mists came down from the mountains, which equally stopped col-
lecting, and rendered it most difficult to dry my specimens, so that I really had no chance of
getting a fair sample of Javanese entomology.
Calliper butterfly
By far the most interesting incident in my visit to Java was a trip to the summit of the
Pangerango and Gedeh mountains; the former an extinct volcanic cone about 10,000 feet
high, the latter an active crater on a lower portion of the same mountain range. Tchipanas,
