During our two months' stay in the Bay of Manilla, we could only become acquainted with a small part of the natural productions, in which the large island of Lucon appears extremely rich, because it is difficult to procure them without travelling far into the interior; but the country round Manilla and Cavite being cultivated to the distance of several days' journey, the woods of the mountains alone remain in a state of nature. There dwell the gigantic snakes and crocodiles, of which every one has some tale to relate. A small _Cercopithecus_ is found in great abundance; but we were not able to meet with a good drawing, or even a tolerable description of it. Skins of _Galeopithecus_ were brought us; and we were assured that the animal allowed itself to be tamed, and would sit like a monkey, and take its food with the fore-feet. Two kinds of flying dogs, one of them apparently a _Pteropus edulis_, were shot and eaten in the neighbourhood. Two other animals, of the bat kind, belonged to the classes _Hypexodon_ and _Nycticejus_. A _Chelone_, three feet long, was brought us, remarkable for seven shields on the middle of its back. _Terrapene tricarinata_ is abundant. We obtained also a _Basilicus_, a large _Tupinambis_, and two _Geckos_, which do not as yet appear to have been described. _Achrochordus fasciatus_ lives in the sea, and is frequently brought up in the nets of the fishermen; on land, it is unable to move from the spot on which it is placed. In November and December, the months we passed at Manilla, all the insects had concealed themselves; and it was only by the assistance of several active Malays, who were all day long hunting them, that we were able to collect upwards of two hundred beetles. Upon the whole, the beetle Fauna agrees with that of Java, of which island many have already been made known. A _Tricondyla_ we had ourselves the pleasure of catching on the trunk of a tree: the inhabitants did not bring them to us, as they suppose them to be large ants, and are apprehensive of being stung by them. We obtained three sorts of _Catascopus_, nineteen aquatic _Scarabaeus_, six _Hydrophilus_, five _Buprestis_, five _Melolontha_, four _Anomala_. _Scarabaeus Gideon_ is found in great abundance in the thick bushes, where it climbs up the branches by means of its long legs and large claws. Of _Oryctes nasicornis_, a Malay one day brought us no less than sixty, taken out of some decayed wood. A green _Cetonia_, of the size and form of the _chinensis_, of a coppery brightness, is rare. Three small Lucanides, of those called by Mac Leay _Nigidius_ and _Figulus_, are found in the wood of living trees.