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rice-fields, and we immediately meet the cosmopolitan Pyrameis 
cardui, then Junonia asterie; of these we catch all the specimens 
we can to examine them, and to-day to release them all, for the 
aberration with the spots under reduced to a very small size are 
here, in West Java, very rare. I have had hundreds of asterze in 
hand, and but two or three of the aberration. Junonia atlites and 
Neptis matuta are here also plentiful. Bees and wasps are busy on 
every side, and a blood-red libellule settles itself on my bamboo stick 
and remains immovable. We leaye the rice-fields and enter under- 
wood. The path is in deep shadow, and Lethe godana makes its 
appearance ; it is not a shy species, and can sometimes be caught by 
the hand. Our path follows a ravine, and where the trees make 
place for shrub we can see, too low to be attained, three green 
Papilios flying. Are they batycles, doson, or evemon ? Only when in 
the net can this be ascertained. These Papilios are our despair; 
their flight is so rapid and so erratic, and they choose such preci- 
pitous abodes that to catch one ourselves is nearly a wonder. My 
native collectors, however, seem to have more luck; it is true that 
they can climb anywhere. I am just bagging a Huplwa leucostictus 
and my friend an Z#. basilissa, when a furious bark from our fox- 
terrier makes us haste forward. A long thin green snake, with a 
red blotch under the throat, lies on the road, and we must use the 
wrong end of our stick to catch that prey. It is a lovely reptile, 
but we kill it without remorse; it is one of the most dangerous. 
Continuing our walk, we arrive at the bottom of the ravine, and 
to cross the stream is not easy; the water is pretty high; but on 
a sandy patch on the other side are a dozen or so of Cyrestis lutea, 
so off shoes and stockings and we wade; but the net is no sooner 
-moying in the direction of the yellow Cyrestis than the whole troop 
takes flight to alight on another sand patch—on the other side of 
the water!! After playing us so two or three times they are left in 
peace. I see better game, and after five minutes of careful watching 
I catch a Libythea myrrha, the second specimen in five years. The 
first specimen was caught in Hast Java, where they were equally 
rare and equally difficult to reach. An admiring exclamation makes 
me look down: following the water up-stream, but too high above 
it to be caught, comes in leisurely, majestic flight Ornithoptera 
anuphrysus g. We follow it with longing eyes as far as possible, 
and notice at the same time that heavy clouds are rolling down the 
mountain side. Better go back! We look neither right nor left, for 
storms come fast, and yet, we cannot resist that temptation—from 
right under our feet flies a jewel of blue, to alight a few yards further 
and tempt us again. A try—missed; a flight of another ten yards, 
another try—caught this time. Amnosza decora 3 in all its beauty. 
No insect life more to be seen; the thunder rolls menacingly and 
the sky is black. But yes, on our doorstep, on a palm, two Hlymnias 
resting, out this morning evidently, their empty chrysalides hang 
still near them.—M. E. WatsH; Soekaboemi, Java, June 24th, 1916. 
ARGYNNIS PAPHIA IN SEPTEMBER.—In South Devon this butter- 
fly is, I think, not infrequently met with in September, especially in 
ENTOM.—NOvVEMBER, 1916. % 
