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BURMA, ITS PEOPLE A SB PRODUCTIONS. 



The larva of this and other species is very injurious to various species of Citrm. 



,, PoLYTES, L. Bengal. Java. 



var. NicoBABicrs, Feld. Andamans. 



,, Protexoe, Cram. Butan. 



,, PoLYiLN'EsioE, Cram. Bengal. Ceylon. 



,, Payexi, Boisd. Darjiling. 



,, PHLLOXExrs, Gray. Tenasserim. Darjiling. Chuuahatti. 



" Sails ahout high up among the trees and apparently quite safe from the attacks 

 of birds, its strong scent, perceptible a couple of yards off even now, three months 

 after it was caiight, being probably most distasteful to insectivorous birds" (jS'iceville). 

 M. Niceville may be right as to birds disliking the particular stink of this insect, but 

 the teleological argument implied must be accepted with great caution. It is at least 

 equally probable as not, that some bird or other insectivore cares very little for the 

 stink, else the survival of the fittest would as it were be synonymous with the survival 

 of the nastiest. There are some things in nature no one can precisely explain, and 

 the stink of P. philoxenus is paralleled teleologieally speaking by the poison of seqjents. 

 If the poison glands and fangs of serpents were really necessary or subservient 

 to their well-being in the struggle of existence, how comes it that the majority of 

 serpents get on very well without such aids ? and if P. philoxenus is designedly 

 preserved from dangers by its stink, how comes it that the bulk of Lfpidoptera do 

 not stink for the same reason ? It is better to confess ignorance of the ways of Lady 

 ' Why,' than delude ourselves with transparent fallacies of the teleological class. 



Havana, Moore. 



Paeis, L. 



Romulus, Cram. 



Khetexoe, Westw. 



ehobifer, Butler. 



Saepedox, L. 



Sclateei, Westw. 



Thaliaechus, Hew. 



Teleaechus, Hew. 



Vaeuna, White. 

 astorion, Westw. 



Xanthus, L. 



Zenocles, Doubl. 



Zeleucus, How. 

 LEPTOcrEcrs meges, Zinken-Sommer. 

 ,, CuErus, Fabr. 



,, viEESCEXS, Butler. 



Darjiling. 



Cherra. Sikkim. 



Bengal. 



Darjiling. 



Andamans. 



Tenasserim. Ceylon. Masuri. 



Tenasserim. 

 Tenasserim. 

 Eanjit YaUey at 1000 feet. 



Tun an. 



Tenasserim. Silhet. Darjiling 



Tenasserim. 



Martaban. Tenasserim. 



