JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1890. 



\\v must tear ourselves away— a glory which cannot be seen often and 

 which will live in our memories for ever. 



As we get up on the high level and catch sight of our tents, the 

 lights from which shine cheerily out, it is already night and the 

 glorious array of ''stars come rushing out" from a deep still blue sky 

 filling the air with a pale radiance which enables us to see our way 

 quite plainly. It is as glorious anight as it has been a day, and 

 we sit down with enjoyment to our dinners, after which a pipe and 

 a mild whisky and soda send us happy and contented to bed. 



The butterflies given in the accompanying list,* with very few 

 exceptions (which will be noted), have all been actually taken by 

 myself, so that I can vouch for their being strictly li butterflies of 

 the Central Provinces." The few that I have not taken myself 

 have been caught by natives who have collected for me. 



To be continued. 



A PRELIMINARY LIST OP THE BUTTERFLIES 



OP MYSORE. 

 By E. Y. Watson. 

 In October, 1888, an opportunity offering, I availed myself of 

 it to send my native collector to catch butterflies in Mysore. The 

 opportunity in question was, that the late Government Geologist of 

 Madras, Mr. Bosworth Smith, was going on a prospecting tour 

 from Kolar in the east to Kathlekan in the west of Mysore, at 

 which latter place he proposed staying for about a couple of 

 months. Collecting was carried on at all the halts en route between 

 Kolar and Kathlekan, and Mr. Bosworth Smith carefully noted on 

 each specimen the place of capture. Between Kolar and Banavar 

 the jungle consisted of low scrub, and here, as might be expected, 

 the prevailing genus was Teracolus ; this genus almost entirely 

 disappears after Kadur, where the jungle changes to forest more or 

 less thick, and here the prevailing genera are Melanitis and 

 Mijcalcsis. Of the former genus many very curious examples were 

 obtained, some of which appear to belong to an undescribed 

 genus. Although 1 directed my collector's attention particularly to 

 ) phthimas, of which he obtained a very large number of specimens, 



* The list will be published in the next part of this paper. 



