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have come from the Seven Korales, and to have been used at the 

 Pattmi dewales, being carried in procession by the Kapuralas or 

 Pattini Haniis in a lacquered box. At dewal maduwas they still 

 perform the ceremony of shooting the mango. 



4. A Note on Kallima philarchus. — Whilst on a visit to an estate 

 in the Uda Pussellawa district (5,200 feet) I had a good opportunity 

 of watching the habits of Kallima philarchus. This interesting 

 " Oakleaf " butterfly is one of those remarkable instances of colour 

 protection, for, although the prevaihng colour of the wings above 

 is a brilhant blue, the under parts resemble a dead leaf, so that when 

 the butterfly has settled with closed wings it is extremely difficult 

 to distinguish it from a dead leaf. For two days a butterfly 

 frequented a certain spot on the trunk of a tree quite close to a 

 footpath , and thus I was able to watch it at close quarters. I noticed 

 with much curiosity that as soon as the butterfly settled, which it 

 did in tlie usual way, it immediately turned round so that its head 

 pointed downwards. I was much puzzled over this proceeding, 

 which occurred every time the butterfly settled, until I discovered 

 the reason. The butterfly turned round so that the " tail " of its 

 two hind wings would almost come into contact with the trunk of 

 the tree, thus representing a stalk, and the apparently dead leaf 

 would hang in a perfectly natural way, drooping downwards, or, as 

 Mr. Green remarks (Spolia Zeylanica, Vol. V., Part XVIII., p. 89), 

 " it might be mistaken very easily for a detached leaf, that in its fall 

 has hitched up in a cobweb " 



W. A. CAVE. 



5. Parasite from the Gall-bladder of Geratophora. — Whilst dis- 

 secting a specimen of the Unicorn Lizard {Geratophora stoddarti) from 

 Nuwara Eliya in April, 1905, a parasitic flat worm was found in 

 the gall-bladder. It was forwarded through Mr. A. E. Shipley to 

 Professor A. Looss at the School of Medicine, Cairo, who kindly 

 furnished the following provisional report. A second specimen was 

 taken from the same species at Hakgala in January, 1906. The 

 lizard is one of those which are peculiar to Ceylon, occurring at the 

 highest elevations, and the occasional presence of a fluke in its gall- 

 bladder is rather an interesting case of parasitism to put on record. 



Dr. Looss's report : — 



" I have examined your specimen, and am herewith sending you 

 a sketch of what I have been able to make out (see text-figure). 

 The worm is a Distome, as I had surmised, but its organization 

 rather differs from what I believed to see in your sketches (made in 

 Ceylon). There is as yet no genus estabHshed for this structural 



