some Rest-attihules of Butter flies. 107 



have a head at each extremity : which deception is 

 much increased by a spot resembling an eye at the 

 base of the processes. These insects, perhaps, thus 

 perplex or alarm their assailants.* 

 Hcsperia iarhas at first puzzled me, but it would appear 

 to be the insect now known as DeudoriK (Bapala) iarhas. 

 Fab., and the very close ally of D. melampus, Cram., one 

 of the insects in which I first noticed the peculiar struc- 

 ture of the anal lobe, about 86 years after Dr. Arnold's 

 observation ! 



I remember well seeing a Lycsenid at rest on a leaf at 

 Solon, on the road to Simla, in October 1903, and was 

 struck by its tails waving about, as I thought at the time 

 blown by the wind. 



On March 12th, 1904, the pretty white, black and 

 orange Talicada nyseus, Guer,, was positively swarming 

 near Kandy. I repeatedly watched it settle with its head 

 upwards and immediately turn about so that its head 

 looked downwards.f 



At Mortchoe, June 5th, 1905, Mr. A. L. Onslow and I 

 searched from sundown to dusk for Enimclesia alhdata, 

 Schiff., in a field adjoining my house ; we failed in our 

 search, but incidentally came across a number of Lycxna 

 icarus, Roit., asleep on the stems of grasses, etc. Out of 

 fifteen specimens, twelve had the head down, three had 

 the head up.j 



The lobed and tailed Lycsenids are not too easy to 

 observe ; they are active and commonly fly about the tops 

 of shrubs or small trees ; when at rest they are not 

 conspicuous and when disturbed dart swiftly off. 

 Dr. Dixey noted : — 



Aug. 20. Durban (Botanical Garden). Saw an 

 " amphisbaenoid " Lycxna settled twice ; the first 

 time horizontally, the second time head downwards. 

 On both occasions the " false head " looked much 

 more like a head than the real one did. There was 

 a constant slight movement of the hind-wings; and 

 a waving of the false antennee. 



* An Introduction to Entomology, vol. ii, p. 255. First Edition, 

 1817. 



t Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1905, p. 126. 



X When this butterlly first settles on flowers in full sunshine it 

 expands its wings very fully, the primaries being drawn somewhat 

 away from the secondaries. 



