I soon got to know every hole and rock and stump, and came up to each with cautious step and bated breath to see what treasures it would produce.

At one place I would find a little crowd of the rare butterfly Tachyris zarinda, which would rise up at my approach, and display their vivid orange and cinnabar-red wings, while among them would flutter a few of the fine blue-banded Papilios.

Where leafy branches hung over the gully, I might expect to find a grand Ornithoptera at rest and an easy prey.

At certain rotten trunks I was sure to get the curious little tiger beetle, Therates flavilabris.

In the denser thickets I would capture the small metal-blue butterflies (Amblypodia) sitting on the leaves, as well as some rare and beautiful leaf-beetles of the families Hispidae and Chrysomelidae.
I found that the rotten jack-fruits were very attractive to many beetles, and used to split them partly open and lay them about in the forest near my house to rot.