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same is probably true of Y. ceylonica, since in two males I found a 

 strong sinell of chocolate, in one case confirmed in the house ; and of 

 a third male I note " odour (in field) slight or absent. ISTo odour 

 detected in the house." Three females were likewise scentless. 

 Dr. Longstaff reports (loc. cit., p. 346) that "the males appeared 

 to have a very slight scent suggestive of chocolate." 



Another Satyriue taken in Lady Morton's Drive was Orsotriaena 

 mandata Moore. This was only seen in one place — just above the 

 paddy fields near the end of the Drive. Dr. Longstaff (ibid.) also 

 found it to be very local, and only common in one place — along the 

 edge of a paddy field. Before leaving Kandy, however, I found it 

 in another locality. This was Wace Park, on the wooded slopes 

 oyer looking the lake ; here two males were playing together in the rain. 

 One was examined for scent without result ; the other at first appeared 

 to be odourless, but on spreading out the tuft of hair-scales on the left 

 side, I at once became sensible of an odour which I cannot otherwise 

 describe than by calling it pleasantly aromatic. Close to the aforesaid 

 paddy-fields, I made practical acquaintance with the land-leech of 

 Ceylon — a noisome and insinuating beast. 



Perhaps the commonest Lycaenid in Lady Horton's Drive was 

 Loxiira arcuata Moore. Several were seen, darting rapidly about and 

 settling from time to time on the upper side of leaves. It is a par- 

 ticularly wary insect. No scent was found in L. arcuata ; Nacaduia 

 atrata Horsf., ,^ , on the other hand, which was captured while flying 

 about a patch of old bullock-dung in the road, had a distinct flowery 

 smell, still perceptible on the following day. 



A female caught at the same time and place was odourless. A 

 sweet flowery scent was noticed in two males of the same species by 

 Dr. Longstaff (loc. cit., p. 505). One of the most striking denizens of 

 the Drive, also encountered on the opposite side of the lake, was Tali- 

 cada nyseus, an interesting Lycaenid with curiously variegated under- 

 side. Other captures included Ghalcosia thallo Linn., a pretty moth, 

 white with touches of bronzy green, and Macaria nota Walker, a 

 Geometrid with a somewhat butterfly-like aspect. C. thallo was found 

 by Dr. Longstaff' {loc. cit., p. 360), to have "a peculiar, disagreeable, 

 musty odour, not at all strong and seemingly present in both sexes." 

 The only specimen examined by me appeared to be scentless. At one 

 place winged Termites were swarming (October 11th) ; one of these 

 shed two wings in the cyanide bottle ; another reached home intact. 

 The blue-banded bee, Podalirius zonaf^ls Linn., $ , ends the list of 

 captures in Lady Horton's Drive. 



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