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also sent to Abbottabad, Kangra, Kulu, Simla, Naini Tal and Shillong 

 (ABsam) as well as to a number of Native States all in charge of men 

 trained at Harwan, who have conveyed the consignments safely to their 

 destination, generally with a loss of less than 1 per cent, in transit. 

 Perhaps the most difhcult journey to negotiate successfully was to Gilgit 

 on which 200 miles of road crossing passes of 12,000' and 15,000' had to be 

 traversed in December. The first effort was a failure, the ova having been 

 frozen, but the second succeeded and I understand that officers of the 

 Agency now have fair trout fishing in at least one stream. For this Col. 



A. B. Dew and Col. Macpherson have to be thanked. The former having 

 commenced and the latter carried out I believe chiefly on their own expense 

 most of the hatchery work in Gilgit with the help of a man from Harwan. 

 In the Valley of .Kashmir most of the more accessible streams suitable for 

 trout fishing are now fairly stocked and some of the more distant waters 

 have been taken in hand. The high lakes which by many were considered 

 unsuitable owing to their being frozen over, in some years as late as the 

 end of June, have given one conspicuous success. Unfortunately there is 

 a question of sanctity about the lakes so far stocked and permission to 

 issue fishing licences has not been granted by the Durbar. Other lakes 

 have, however, been taken in hand with good prospects of success. 



Before closing this account I should mention that in 1908 an attempt was 

 made to introduce the great Danube Salmon (S. hucho) into Kashmir. Ova 

 was arranged for through a well known Continental pisciculturist and was 

 shipped via London to Calcutta at considerable trouble and expense. The 

 consignment arrived in Calcutta on 9th April (nearly the hottest season of 

 the year there) 1 met and took it up to Kashmir where the little fish hatched 

 out and appeared quite healthy, but none grew to over half a pound in the 

 first two or three years. An enquiry kindly made on our behalf by Mr. R. 



B. Marston of the " Fishing Gazette"' resulted in some correspondence 

 being published in that paper in which the firm who sold us the ova admitted 

 that they had been unable to obtain guaranteed ova from the Government 

 hatchery and had sent us some from a private hatchery which might have 

 been a late lot of Salmon {S. salar) ova. The scales of the little fish indicat- 

 ed that this was the case. After three or four years respectively the cocks and 

 hens of this batch reached the reproducing stage and were experimentally 

 cross bred with »S'. fario, but the resulting fish did not grow well. Cross 

 breeding was carried on to the third generation with no signs of a "mule " 

 tendency, but the fish were not satisfactory and were finally ell released. 

 Some of the original fish ultimately reached a size of over a pound in weight 

 and had the spotty look of a bull trout, but after the early stages, none of 

 them seemed to feed well except on live water insects and flies. 



F. J. MITCHELL. 

 Srinagab, Kashmir, 1918. 



No. XXII.— NOTES ON THE LARVA OF CH.EROCAMPA 



ALEC TO. 



I found eggs and larvse of this moth at Rae Bareli, U. P., at the end of 

 October and in November 1917. The food plants were the cultivated vine, 

 and a small plant growing near marshy ground, with a flower shaped like a 

 clove. 



The eggs were spherical and bright green in colour, about the same size as 

 the eggs of Daphnis neni. They were laid singly, usually on the upper side 

 of a leaf. 



