MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 1047 



No. XVI.— _\ CURIOUS METHOD OF FEEDING NOTED IN 

 DANAIS LIMN I ACE, Oram. 



Late in May last a large swarm of Danais limniace, Cram., was found in 

 the compound of our Laboratory in Bangalore on the numerous Crotolaria 

 striata plants — with which a good portion of the Laboratory compound is 

 covered. Each tender and succulent pod of the plants had not less than 

 two or three butterflies oo it. The insects were found very busy scratching 

 up the surface of the pods with the claAvs of their middle pair of legs in a 

 steady and persistent manner, the tip of the uncoiled proboscis following 

 the scratched portions at the same time and sucking up the juice oozinr 

 out of the small wound. When a group of butterflies on a plant was dis- 

 turbed they scattered away and soon after another group of them was 

 found to settle on the plant and get very busy at the sa.Tie work. After 

 a group of butterflies were at a set of pods for about five minutes the sur- 

 face of the pods was found to be scratched in patches. Except teak 

 (Tectona grandis) no other plant or weed was found to be in blossom in or 

 around the Laboratory compound. A few stragglers of Euploea core, Cram, 

 were also found amidst the swarm of D. limniace feeding in a similar manner. 



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T. V. SUBRAHMANIAM, 



Junior Assistant Entomologist, 



Department of Agriculture, 

 Bangalore, 

 Sth August 1919. 



No, XVII.— NOTES FROM THE ORIENTAL SPORTING MAGAZINE, 



JUNE 1828 TO JUNE 1833. 



At page 311 of Volume XXVI, the writer expressed a hope to be able to 

 collate some further notes from old sporting magazines, and is now able to 

 furnish a few notes on the Old Series of the " Oriental Sporting Magazine." 



Pig Sticking : At page 12 of the Magazine for June 1828 is the epic 

 poem " The Next Grey Boar we See," and in the October number for 1830 is 

 published the well known song " Saddle Spur and Spear," the author 

 being " S. Y, S.". 



In the same number the contributor of the doings of the Sholapur H nn 

 says that when at Deesa he killed the largest hog he had ever seen : 6 feet 

 1 inch long : tushes 10 inches. 



This record gives a length longer by seven inches than any recorded at 

 page 740 of Volume XXV of our Journal. It is unfortunate that the 

 weight is not stated. 



In March 1918 Major Gordon, r.h.a., speared a boar at Abu Jisra on the 

 Diala IJiver, which measured 38 inches at the withers and weighed 267 lbs. 

 Had this animal been killed earlier in the year the weight would have 

 been quite 300 lbs. : a monster indeed. I have no note of this length so a 

 comparison with the Deesa boar is not possible. 



Doings of the Ahmednugger Hunt and Tent Club are contributed to the 

 1829 issue, 18 hogs having been speared in the Godavery River direction 

 between 23rd September and 8th October 1828. 



Flint V. Percussion. In the October number of 1828 "Percussion" writes 

 from Bombay under date 25th May to persuade those sportsmen still 

 using '' the good old flint lock " from ignorance or in a spirit of contradic- 

 tion to discard it for a percussion lock. 



