Szekessy Vilmos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 53. (Budapest 1961)
Szunyoghy, J.: The scientific results of the first Hungarian zoological expedition to East Africa 1. Preliminary report
The moths were caught by the use of gas-light lamps and white sheets. Depending on the weather, I usually began collecting after 7 p. m., until the moths were on the wing. According to my observations, the swarm decreased significantly towards midnight, due to the strong relative coldness of the night. Therefore I left off collecting usually about 11.30 to 12 p. m. The swarming was the greatest in the warm, humid evening hours before immittent rains. The collecting of Lepidoptera in both camps were made in shrubby places, dotted with Acacia spirocarpa in the high grass. I changed collecting localities every two or three days. I also collected in wholly different, cultivated areas, too, namely in the garden of the New Arusha Hotel in Arusha. This was a beautiful, carefully kept park. Furthermore, I gathered butterflies in the flower-garden (adjacent to some banana plantations) of Dr. S á s k a in Arusha, but the result was not very good due to the windy, cold days and nights. I sifted insects and other invertebrates in three places in Arusha : in the park of the New Arusha Hotel, then from the compost pile (better than the first) in Dr. Sáska's garden, and from the damp litter of the primeval forest of Mt. Meru. The animals of the sift were extracted by the Moczarsky —Winkler method. The expedition had largely fulfilled its task. As a result, we collected during six weeks, 79 big game mammals, 110 small mammals, 37 birds, 30 amphibians and reptiles, 1250 lepidopterons, 4000 beetles and some hundred other arthropode and parasites. I have to make a special mention of the gifts of Dr. L. Sáska and his wife. They presented to the expedition, that is, the Zoological Department of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, very valuable big game skulls and stuffed birds, besides having assisted me in my various efforts. Also, Mrs. H. White and J. Chernél, residents in Mombasa, gave valuable ethnological materials to the National Museum of Hungary, Let our most sincere gratitude be extended to all of them. 17 Természettudományi Múzium Évkönyve
