The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 _ The Land - Alfred Russel Wallace

occasion from half to two-thirds that number of distinct species. Some of them
would settle on the wall, some on the table, while many would fly up to the roof
and give me a chase all over the verandah before I could secure them. In order to
show the curious connection between the state of weather and the degree in
which moths were attracted to light, I add a list of my captures each night of my
stay on the hill: