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fingers, perfectly unhurt. He bad caught it as it was sitting 

 with Avings erect, sucking up the liquid from a muddy spot 

 by the roadside. Many of the finest tropical butterflies have 

 this habit, and they are generally so intent upon their meal 

 that they can be easily approaclied and captured. It proved 

 to be the rare and curious Charaxes kadenii, remarkable for 

 having on each hind wing two curved tails like a pair of 



CALLIPER BUTTERFLY. 



callipers. It was the only specimen I ever saw, and is still 

 the only representative of its kind in English collections. 



In the east of Java I had suffered from the intense heat 

 and drought of the dry season, which had been very inimical 

 to insect life. Here I had got into the other extreme of 

 damp, wet, and cloudy weather, which was equally unfavor- 

 able. During the month which I spent in the interior of 

 West Java I never had a really hot fine day throughout. It 

 rained almost every afternoon, or dense mists came down 



