Dr. Papp Jenő szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 25/8-35. (Budapest, 1972)

height and also from 2300 m we have taken soil, mosa and lichen aamplea in order to extract mitea and Tardigrades. Juat Before twilight we had aome time to collect in a clearing below the uppermost borderline of the taiga foreat. We have already made reference to the rainy weather /first three days/ at Sam-zi-yan during our stay there. When the weather permitted we endeavoured to collect around the Hotel. Numerous footpaths led into the taiga forest and in turn we collected along each of them. Owing to the ever-pouring rain we pushed into the taiga at most to 400-600-800 m distances from the Hotel, nevertheless, we still had good glimpses of the undisturbed taiga and collected mainly Hematocera. Yarious speciea came forward aa we proceeded up the patha of the cloaed foreat, aitea like decaying trunks of larch and birch or fallen logs, others like the narrow sedgy ahore of a lake and willow grovea alao proved aucceaaful and yielded some interesting apecimena. When the sun broke through for 10-15 minutes, dragonfliea floated about by the lake. From among the demoiaellea /Agrionidae/ were numeroua of which a good number waa taken by neta. From under atumpa aeveral apeciea of ants, millipedes, centipedea and a few beetles were collected. We sieved samples of forest soil, litter, moss and lichen /

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, only scarcely have we found beetles,but a good selection of ants, centipedes, millipedes and arachnida was secured. One of the small bays of the lake - close to the Hotel - had been dammed off and filled in with earth, /here volcanic aah/ but the water made it yet very muddy. Such habitata are rather favourable for the tiny dungflies/Sphaeroceridae/ and water-fliea /Ephydridae/. Sweeping randomly we aecured aome 4000 dung- and water-fliea /at moa

t 5-6 speciea/ and about 200 leafhoppers /1 apeciea/ /Ho. 205/ juat under an hour /

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/. We placed our 35 aoil-trapa in the taiga foreat baiting them with beer. In five daya 42 beetleB, mainly Oarabus /No. 203/ fell into the trap. In one night we had the light on in our hotel-room which attracted many moths onto our window and white balcony-wall. All of them were put into the killing jars including many ichneumonid flies and caddis-flies /Triohoptera/ /No. 219/. Unfortunately for