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of the river Irrawaddy. Dense jungle encircles the canton- 

 ment on three sides, consisting chiefly of bamboo, mango, 

 palmyra, tamarind, and guava trees. The undergrowth is 

 very luxuriant and varied; with the exception of bindweed I 

 noticed few other British plants. 



I commenced operations here on the 10th of March, 1870, 

 but found that it was the winter season ; still I met with 

 Vanessa Orithea, Thestis Marianne, H. Semele, and several 

 representations of the Lycaenidae; Deiopeia pulchella was 

 abundant amongst cholum. 



Unfortunately, on the 7th of April, cholera broke out in 

 the regiment, and the result was very serious: this prevented 

 ray leaving the cantonment until the 24th, when I still found 

 Pulchella common. On the i27th I captured Sphinx Con- 

 volvuli at rest. During the last eight days of the month the 

 mango showers, as they are termed, set in, and tlie vegetation 

 began to spring up wondrously after the long spell of dry 

 weather. 



May opened with warm, genial weather, and the trees 

 round the barracks came out in splendid bloom. I had good 

 sport at these every evening at dusk, ray captures being 

 D. Celeiio, C. Porcellus, C, Elpenor, M. Stellatarum, and its 

 more uncoraraon brother Pterogon CEnotheree, together with 

 lots of Georaetrffi all unknown to me. I coraraenced "sugar" 

 this month, and operated upon the mango and tamarind 

 trees as a trial; the latter I found a dead failure, as almost 

 immediately after the sugar was put on, it would be covered 

 with myriads of ants. A very few small Noctuge carae to the 

 mango trees, but the most common customers I found to be 

 geckoes, a large species of lizard, abundant throughout Burmah; 

 they had constituted themselves " collectors," and doubtless 

 collected the moths for me, putting them in their own box ; 

 however, several of these intruders came to grief, as when I 

 saw them I greeted them with a whack from a clubbed stick. 

 Quantities of larvae were feeding this month; amongst them 

 Arctia Menthastri,and A. Lubricipeda,which seem commoner 

 here than in suburban gardens at home, albeit the same type. 

 I have seen thera racing at that familiar pace across a road 

 as though they were hurrying out of some one's way ; and 

 indeed they were, too, for if the " Indian crow" espied them 

 he would terminate their existence. Pulchella larva? were 



