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that I had left it behind with the cart as useless ; I therefore could 

 only capture a few specimens of T, Narada : these were so busily 

 employed in thrusting their trunks into the buffalos' dung scattered 

 about the road, that I simply had to take them by the wings, one 

 after another, till I caught all I saw. I have captured this insect m 

 Matura Galle and Jaifna ; it has therefore a wide distribution. 

 Between Kandy and this place I found the following Papilionida : — 



Papilio (Ornithopterus) Amphimedon. . Abundant. 



Pap. Polymnestor Abundaut. ^ 



Pap. Erithonms Abundant. 



Pap. Agamemnon Not uncommon. 



Pap. Brathycles Common. 



Pap. Sarpedon [See Note C] Rare. 



Pap. Pammon Common. 



Pap. Helenus Rare. 



Pap. Hector . . 1 rg^^ -^^^^ p -. Yerj abundant. 



Pap. Diphilus . J '- 



Pap. Polytes Very rare. 



Pap. Romulus "Very rare. 



Pap. Crino Abundant. 



This last frequents the higher branches of the trees, and is conse- 

 quently seldom captured : I have however prociu-ed a few, by finding 

 them asleep and hanging to the underside of leaves, with their bodies 

 in a line with the stems, so that their closed wings were quite pro- 

 tected from the dews. Some stress has, I believe, been laid on the 

 extension of the green band into the discoidal cell on the upper wing 

 of this species. I myself once thought that this seemed to be a local 

 distinction, but since I have captured a large quantity I find it does 

 not hold. I am now decidedly of opinion that it is quite an acci- 

 dental variety. 



After we had seen to our horses, we sallied out to look for snipe 

 and specunens. In the forest over against the Rest House I found a 

 Carocolla which I had not hitherto seen (but which I unfortunately 

 lost from my box in some way), and a dead example of a remarkable 

 Achatina with a multitude of whorls « . I also procured a Cyclostoma 

 new to me : diameter 12 Unes, depth 3 Unes ; peritreme double, re- 

 flected, spire flat, surface of whorls finely streaked ; operculum multi- 

 spiral, retractile, colour a dark straw. Animal hvid. Habitat, vege- 

 table deposits in the clefts of rocks**. 



"We found a pair of the large owls, Rettipa ceylonensis, in a dark 

 place near the river, but they were wide awake and flew away long 

 ere we came within gun-shot of them. The natives all say they feed 

 largely on fish ; they certainly reUsh that food in confinement. 



On arriving at the ford I foimd the river very low, and was amazed 

 to think how I had escaped an upset when I came over it on my way 

 down, when it was swollen. It was full of large boulders, then quite 



23 Ach. veruina, Bens. MSS. 



'* Not recognized in the collection. 



