154 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
a curtain in the hotel; Miltochrista solita, Wik. (something like 
our Setinairrorella), Leucania denticula, Hmpsn., in the Ramboda. 
Pass, Chusaris figqurata, Moore, Macaria emersaria, Wlk., Boarmia 
adamata, Feld. (Ramboda Pass), Cidaria fluviata (in the hotel), 
Craspedia intensata (a few on a wall near the hotel), Platytes acro- 
penalis, Hmpsn. (in a mossy ditch), Eschata xanthocera, Hmpsn. 
(dead and mutilated in a puddle), Musotima acclaralis, Walk. 
(rather commonly in a mossy ditch), Scoparia ? murificalis, Walker,. 
Adrapsa abnormalis, Swinhoe (presented to the B. M.), Nomophila 
noctuella (Moon Plains), Frisilia rostrata, Meyr., Hucosma 
isogramma, Meyr., and Autosticha petrotoma, n. sp., named by Mr- 
Meyrick and now in his collection.. The regularity with which 
heavy afternoon rain followed a fine morning was very marked 
during my short stay at Nuwara-Eliya. 
September 29th, at Anuradhapura, Rathinda amor, Fab., 
settled on my coat as the train approached the station. I was 
fortunate in obtaining the services of a good Tamil guide. He 
gave me much information as to the wonderful remains of this 
buried and once extensive city. When paying a visit to the temple 
and viewing the sacred Bo-tree, he rather startled me by remarking 
that I was not to mistake the sacred Bo-tree for the Banyan. 
One was Ficus religiosa, the other Ficus elastica. On the visit to 
Mihintale, when Papilio ewripylus, L. (telephus, Feld.), was settling 
on the road in scores, with an occasional nomius, Esper., he was 
particularly urgent in requesting me to go for the pale ones, 
tailed ones, the others being of little account. He gave me hints 
in manipulating my small camera, and bribed the monkeys with 
bananas to descend so that I might get a picture. 
The heat at Anuradhapura is trying. I believe I felt it more 
here than at Bombay. Irefer to it merely because I had to pay 
the penalty for rashly engaging in a butterfly hunt at a time 
when I should have been sheltering under an umbrella. 
I saw a good deal of jungle, and although constantly on the 
look-out for snakes, saw very few indeed. 
I took the following butterflies: Danais chrysippus, L., 
septentrionalis, Butler, core, Cram., Hypolimnas bolina, L.— 
a rag, Papilio demoleus (erithonius, Cramer), polytes, L. (romulus, 
Cramer), hector, L. (at flowers in the hotel grounds), Catopsilia 
erocale, Cramer, and Appias paulina, Cramer. 
Nyctipao macrops, L. Yhis fine noctua was found in the 
jungle by one of the hotel servants and brought to me. 
The following occurred at light: Deiopia pulchella, L..,. 
Mimeusemia ceylonica, Hmpsn., Bryophila postochrea, Hmpsn., 
Hyblea puera, Cram., Polydesma umbricola, Boisd., Trigonodes 
regalis, Moore, Fodina stola, Guen., and cuneigera, Butler, 
Dirades theclata, Guen., Craspedia actuaria, Walker, Somatina 
anthophilata, Guen., Chlorodontopera pannosa, Moore, Agathiainter- 
cissa, Walker, Sameodes cancellalis, Zell., Argyroploce mosaica, Low., 
