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7. Beating the foliage of trees and shrubs. 8. Collecting from barks and from under stones. 9. Nocturnal collecting by lamp (normal light). 10. Singling (over land and sea, especially on the coral banks at ebb). The collected material comprises almost all groups of arthropods. However, the comparatively short time and the prevailing draught much hindered us to secure large series of each group. The number of samples is important even in quantitative aspects and the orthopteran material seems to be significant. The marine groups are also rich in specimens. Our base-camp was set up at Ukunda, some 50 km south of Mombasa. This locality was Ideal for shorter trips lasting for half a day or a day, as well as for the longer ones taking up 2-3 days. This basecamp proved to be very useful especially for the erection of the BERLESE apparatuses and for the MOCZARSKY-WINKLER bags, for these could continuously extract the animals. Our collectings may be grouped around four major collecting sites. I. Likoni

—Nwabungu coastal area: This coast is rather densely populated, nevertheless, at the southernmost point we found larger stretches of woods and a comparatively less disturbed gallery woods at the tributary of the river Mwachena, at other placed less frequented scrubby areas in the coastal line. The banks of the river also proved to be useful collecting sites. The coastal belt with the occasional showers were very useful places too with its fresh vegetation. A significant part of the material was collected in the environs of the Diani Persian Mosque. The coastal belt was alternately sandy and rocky, here and there with small coral reefs. The latter emerges from the sea at ebb-time, when the caverns and crevices harbouring a rich flora and fauna then can be approached. 11. Kwala and environs (Shimba Hills National Park): This wooded hilly region rising up to 300-400 m above sea level might have been a good hunting ground for animals, had it not been for the draught. Consequently, all our efforts were rewarded by rather moderate results. Only the soil samples taken in the lowermost parts of the valleys and the occasional sittings yielded a richer fauna. in. Tsawo (West) National Park: On leaving the coastal region and proceeding inland the area is becoming gradually drier, green trees only rarely break the scenery; the only green patch of land was near the gate around the Mzima springs. Collectings were successful only around these springs and some small lakes, as well as in the environs of two tourist centres, the Kilanguni Lodge and the Ngulia Lodge. Here too we mostly restricted ourselves in taking the soil samples. IV. Amboseli National Park: Although it is a small territory, the animal-life is rather rich here. It lies at the foot of the Kilimanjaro, so it is understandable why its rich vertebrate fauna differs from many others. We saw herds of gnus, some numbering as many as one thousand specimens, several hundreds of zebras, a number of pairs of lions, gepards, rhinoceros, giraffes all indicating and suggesting a one-time very rich fauna of East Africa. We had opportunity to collect mostly around the Amboseli Lodge tourist centre, the shore of the near-by lake and the water-courses communicating with the lake. But owing to the limited length of time allowed we rather invested our energies in securing as many various samples as we possibly could, and here and there we could single some specimens. Many of our samples were extracted back in Geneva, for this opportunity here too, we should like to thank Dr. B. HAUSER. We were fortunate enough to have been able to bring out all the collected materials. The majority of the specimens will be deposited, after elaboration, in the Hungarian Natural History I Museum, Budapest, but some representatives specimens will also be passed over to the Museum D'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, and some duplicate specimens to the National Museum, Nairobi. List of localities No. 1. Ukunda, sea shore. 16. DC. 1985. - Berlese-, Nematoda- and Tardlgrada-samples from decaying debris and litter, accumulated at base of baobab trees. Sandy soil. No. 2. Ukunda, sea shore. 16. DC. 1985. - Berlese-, Nematoda- and Tardigrada-samples from digging out roots of grassy vegetation, near to sea shore.