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thcEcia conspersa; at sugar, Ceropacha ridens, A. Segetum, 

 N. xantbographa, and N. V-nigrum. The month of May 

 opened terrifically boisterous, and wound up with a fearful 

 cyclone, causing great devastation throughout the whole of 

 Southern India. At Wellington, however, genial weather set 

 in almost immediately afterwards, and insects came out in 

 profusion. I had only to go a short distance to obtain the 

 following: — R, Rhamni, a profusion of the genus Pieris, not 

 omitting Brassica? and Rapte, both of which cut a sorry 

 figure with their beautiful congener Epicharis. Of the genus 

 Papilio I met with Sarpedon, Coon, Hector, Polymnestor, 

 and Demoleus (the nearest to our English Machaon), the 

 larvae of which, together with those of Sarpedon, Hector, and 

 Demoleus, I met with during the month feeding upon citron 

 trees. A species resembling V. Antiopa, but named Junonia 

 Sabina, has a peculiar habit of alighting upon the trunks ot 

 certain forest trees (certainly not for the sap, because it is 

 quite bitter), and thus many came to my net; I confess they 

 successfully " dodged " me when on the wing. Lycaena Alexis, 

 Alsus and Argiolus were extremely common, flitting in com- 

 pany with T. Tages, Pamphila Linea, Sylvanus, Actaeon, and 

 T. Alveolus, but these were not all the Hesperidae, for we 

 have at least thirty representatives of the family here, all of 

 which occur during this month ; some are very large, — one, 

 which I catch at Lauristinus blossoms, is quite two inches 

 eight lines, and in colour just like shot-silk, almost dazzling 

 one's eyes to look at it. The petunia flowers attracted 

 S. Convolvuli, D. Celerio, C. Porcellus and Elpenor; whilst 

 round the hedgerows a species exactly like H. Hectus, but 

 in size six inches, was common, as were also P. aurillua, 

 Chrysorrhcea, S. illunaria, and C. ferrugata. At sugar I had 

 grand captures. There is a very large moth here, evidently 

 a relation of Mania Maura, but three times its size : it has a 

 splendid ocellus of purple and blue on each wing. My 

 pinning-box is considerably larger than one would think of 

 using in England, but I found when I first beheld one of 

 these gentlemen on ray sugar that it was only when his 

 wings were folded that he would enter it. In company 

 with this species was a Noctua, exactly like the male of 

 Saturnia Carpini, the same sex of this species being 

 quite black. Besides these a host of "unknowns" made 



