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capture of Blanaida goschkevetschti, also a Satyrid, by the 
dragonfly Orthetrum japonicum, Uhler, near Yokohama. 
At Miyanoshita, in Japan, I saw a green mantis on a 
lily flower with a Papilio maachii, of which it had eaten 
the head and half the thorax. 
At Kandy, in Ceylon, I saw a large Asilid fly carrying a 
bright green bug, a protected species. Mr. H. E. Green 
gave me its name, but I have mislaid the note. 
Lizards of the genus Calotes are very abundant in 
Ceylon, especially round Colombo and in the hill districts, 
but becoming scarcer towards the north of the island. 
There are several species, of which the green ones are 
most fond of sitting on tall herbaceous plants or at the 
ends of twigs on bushes and small trees, the brown ones 
on tree trunks. All are good climbers and very active, 
but the green ones, from the nature of their resting-place, 
are most likely to destroy butterflies. Small-scaled brown 
ground lizards are also common, but if they catch butter- 
flies, as is probable, it must be chiefly low-flying genera 
such as Terias or some of the Lycaenidae and Hesperidae. 
The following are my notes :— 
Colombo, March 31st, 1910. Saw a green Calotes lizard 
at the end of a twig on a high hedge of a lilac-flowered 
shrub, try to catch a large blue-black carpenter bee 
(Xylocopa). It missed the bee, but large numbers of the 
same species were visiting the flowers, and from its eager- 
ness there is little doubt it was in the habit of eating 
these insects. 
Nowara Eliya, 6500 ft., May 10th. Two specimens 
of Huploca asela were fluttering round a tall Composite 
plant, near the flowers of which a long-tailed green lizard 
(Calotes) was sitting. The lizard snapped at one but 
missed, and both flew away. After a short time one 
returned. Before it settled the lizard jumped and fell 
further down the plant, but with the head and thorax of 
the Huploea in its mouth. 
The butterfly opened its anal tufts, and the lizard, after 
remaining quiet for a minute or two, began to chew it up, 
getting it further and further into its mouth. I removed 
one wing, which I show to-night, but the whole of the rest 
of the butterfly was devoured, obviously with enjoyment. 
The same day at Hakgala I saw two of the shorter- 
tailed brown lizards, each with a beetle in its mouth, but 
failed to catch either of them. 
