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But for these few foreign touches our day had been a 

 pleasant reminder of collecting in England. A few da_ys later 

 in another walk from Morrow's Neck to a sheltered glade in a 

 ravine some 3000 ft. below the summit of Deoban, the English 

 dream was dispelled, and once more we could revel in all the 

 glory of Oriental Rhopalocera. By way of a change I had 

 brought a dozen men out armed with nets instead of rifles, and 

 after they had been collecting for a quarter of an hour near the 

 head of this ravine I wandered off by myself a little lower down. 

 Soon a perfect stream of butterflies came down through the 

 rather sparse undergrowth, and for the best part of an hour I 

 watched them pass me. The energetic collectors above me 

 evidently acted as beaters and drove all the butterflies of the 

 place down the ravine and past me. None seemed to go back. 

 The species most in evidence was the fine big Pierine Delias 

 belladonna, in perfect condition. All the Papilios mentioned 

 before were taken, also the big sihylla-\ike Satyrine AuLocera 

 padma, the leaf-butterfly Kallima inachus, the delicately traced 

 white Nymphaline Cyrestis thyodamas, a strong flyer quite new 

 to me, black, marked with orange brown, which turns out to be 

 Sephisa dichroa, an essentially Himalayan species ranging from 

 Kashmere to Kumaon. Then an occasional Acrsea, Pareha vesta, 

 which had wandered in from its more natural haunt, the open 

 hiU-side, was taken. Lycsenids were in abundance, bunched 

 together on tasty patches of mud. A few monkeys crawling 

 about on the steep sides of the ravine, a great eagle or vulture 

 occasionally soaring over far above us, all added to the Oriental 

 nature of the scene, and yet 3000 ft. immediately above us, as I 

 have described already, the entomological atmosphere was 

 typically British. 



Since those two days' collecting at the end of May, several 

 entomological incidents have occurred to illustrate this meeting 

 of the East and West. One night the silver-striped hawk-moth, 

 Hippotion celerio, blundered into the room, just as he ought to 

 in England when one wants to finish a day's collecting with a 

 good capture. Another night the eastern element paid a visit in 

 the person of a noisy Cicada, Platylomia sanirata, and one after- 

 noon I found one of those enormous mosquitoes in the house, a 

 species of the curious genus Toxorhynchites, very like two species 

 01 this genus which we get in Borneo. 



In July the rains began ; on some of the finer days between 

 the storms, great swarms of locusts visited us. By timing them 

 over a small stretch of ground I calculated their rate of travell- 

 ing as about nine miles an hour. To one who had never seen 

 them before they presented a wonderful spectacle. The whole 

 valley below us was literally brown with them and the air thick 

 with them, just as if they were large brown flakes of snow 

 moving before the wind. They did a lot of damage to the 



