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of several huge rocks piled on each other: on the summit are 

 the tombs of several Fakeevs, and at the base is an artificial 

 lake, on the banks of which I obtained Pa])ilio Hector, Coon, 

 Polymnestor, and Dissimilis; Vanessa Orithya, P. Cardui, a 

 species of Teras, Argynnis Selene, CEgocera Venulia, Dia- 

 dema Lyria, Lyctena Alexis, Pieris Napi, Callidryas Argante, 

 Pontia Nini, Thestis Marianne, and Pieris Epicharis. Several 

 species of Arclia came to light, some of them most beautiful ; 

 Lubricipeda was amongst them, but the remainder were 

 unknown to me. I was sitting in my quarters writing one 

 evening, when a friend from home visited me by flying on to 

 my desk: it was a male of Zeuzera ^sculi ; I never saw it 

 before nor since in India. On the 25th of the month a large 

 Sphinx larva and pupa were brouglit to me from an oflicer's 

 compound, and on the 29th tlie pupa emerged : it was a fine 

 female Choerocampa Nerii ; I never before saw this beauty 

 alive. J collected almost every evening during the month ot 

 September, mostly in gardens round the cantonment, and had 

 one whole day's collecting at Moulali on the 14th of the 

 month, when I met with all the species named for the 29th of 

 August, besides two very pretty species of Anthocharis, — one 

 like Cardamines, but devoid of the underneath markings, and 

 the other tipped with magenta. On the 4th of the month I 

 was examining the foliage of a Scotch fir growing in a com- 

 pound near the barracks, when I found several larvae, which, 

 although not feeding in rolled-up leaves, like Clostera, put 

 me much in mind of the larvaj of Curtula. I also found some 

 pupae spun up in the crevices of the bark, and on the 6th one 

 of them emerged ; the imago is certainly Clostera Anachoreta, 

 or a very closely-allied species. On the lltli I bred a male 

 of Choerocampa Nerii from a larva obtained on the 25th of 

 August; thus it had only taken seventeen days to undergo its 

 changes. I obtained the following species at dusk, hovering 

 over flowers : — Choerocampa Elpenor, C. Porcellus (most 

 abundant), Deilephila Celerio, Sphinx Convolvuli (most 

 abundant), Macroglossa Fuciformis and M. Stellatarura, 

 C. Nerii, CEgocera Venulia, Plusia Gamma and P. Chrysitis, 

 Agrotis exclamationis and A. Segetum, Caradrina cubicularis, 

 and a species of Leucania; besides other Noctuae. Amongst 

 the Sphingidae the commonest species was Porcellus, and I 

 notice it invariably prefers Zinnias to any other flowers, whilst 



