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<p>[Page 53]</p><p>was more agreeable than the last one. We had more rain and therefore less heat and fewer flies, which had been a real plague the previous year. There aren’t many mosquitos here, and even roaches, which were abundant in Singapore and reputedly also in Liverpool, are far and few in between. This summer we have a lot of the most beautiful butterflies here, and this has reawoken my collector’s heart. I’ve already collected a small boxful and maybe H. will show some interest later on. In Australia, there are very many different butterfly species that fly at different times of the summer. The first to show up are something like Cabbage Butterflies with pretty patterns on the underside of their wings; then come the Danaides, Foxes etc and, in the middle of summer, the Scarce Swallowtails and the Papilios. Each species flies in large numbers, quite unlike anything I’ve seen in the tropics or in Europe. Just like the butterflies, so the other insects such as bugs, dragonflies, etc. They always come in very large numbers and it’s unbelievable how fast all animals breed in Australia. I had heard of caterpillars</p>