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 collecting, and rendered it most difficult to dry my specimens, so that I really had no chance of getting a fair sample of Javanese entomology.
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, about four miles over the Megamendong Pass, is at the foot of the mountain.

A small country house for the Governor-General and a branch of the Botanic Gardens are situated here, the keeper of which accommodated me with a bed for a night.

There are many beautiful trees and shrubs planted here, and large quantities of European vegetables are grown for the Governor-General's table.