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wings satin-yellow, with the veins marked in black. It is a high 
flyer, and the moment has to be watched for when it comes sailing 
down in easy circles and alights upon some low-growing shrub, 
especially Clematis Wightiana, on which perhaps its caterpillar 
feeds, though I have never succeeded in finding it there. 
Another large and handsome insect, Papilio Polymnestor, is 
fairly common, but avoids the sunlight, and flutters softly about 
in the deep gloom of the most secluded groves of fig and mango 
trees, where it might be mistaken for a huge bat but for the pale 
lavender colour of its lower wings. When feeding they are so 
absorbed that they may be taken between the thumb and finger 
without much difficulty. 
But it would be hopeless and very dry reading to enumerate 
all the species that may be found in the neighbourhood of Coonor. 
Every collector must hope to make their acquaintance personally 
some day, and when he does he will probably long remember his 
first morning in the tropics—an event in one’s life which can 
never be adequately described to outsiders nor ever forgotten 
by oneself. 
Lower down the slopes of the mountains, at an elevation of 
about 4000 feet, the bamboo jungles commence, and the vege- 
tation becomes strictly tropical and insect life even more abundant 
than higher up. In these bamboo jungles there are occasional 
pools surrounded by tall lemon-grass, or swampy places by the 
side of nullahs or water-courses. These are always very pro- 
ductive localities, but they also harbour snakes, vast numbers of 
leeches, and very often a tiger or two; so the collector must keep 
his eyes open. In such a place I have spent the early hours of 
the day, filling box after box, and, in the excitement of the chase, 
rushing over the marshy ground and scrambling among the rocks 
utterly regardless of snakes, tigers, or sunstroke ; but I more than 
once paid the penalty afterwards with an attack of fever. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 
Ponyommatus HippotHor anp P. pispar.—In No. 28 of 
‘Le Naturaliste,’ published in Paris, March 1st, 1880, some 
“Notes lepidoptérologiques”’ are contributed by Mons. R. F. 
Brown, of Bordeaux. In the first part of his article the author 
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