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psilia pyranthe I took two females, one of which had 

 suffered a symmetrical injury to both hind- wings. Three or 

 four Hypolimnas bolina, both sexes, were disturbed in their 

 first sleep, and being drowsy fell an easy prey. The Blues 

 were represented by several species — -Zizera maha, Koll.; 

 Z. otis, Fab,, var. indica, Murray ; Catochrysops cnejus, Fab. ; 

 and Nacaduba noreia, Feld. Two Pyrales, Hymenia 

 recurvalis, F., and Bradina admixtalis, Walk., and a worn 

 Acidalid were picked up. A Sphinx, Nephele hespera, Fab., 

 was taken during the afternoon at the flowers of a Bryonia, 

 A little later on, an Arctiid moth, Artaxa lunata, Walk., 

 came to the lamp of the railway carriage, to which a Sphinx, 

 probably another N. hespera, also paid a momentary visit. 



Peshdwar, lat. 34° N„ alt. 1165 ft. 

 October 22nd— 25th, 1903. 



This city is finely situated in the extreme north-west 

 of the great plain of the Panjab, or Five Rivers ; the 

 mountains of the Sufid Koh and the foot-hills of the 

 Hindu Kiish bounding the view to the west and north 

 respectively. 



In the hotel garden I took a few things ; Terias hecabe 

 was common, two of them lacked " the dog's head mark." 

 Belenois mesentina was represented by a solitary male. 

 One of three males of Ganoris canidia yielded a decided 

 scent, hard to describe but certainly not that of G. napi. 

 That dingy Skipper Pamara mathias, Fab., was abundant 

 at the flowers of Duranta. I missed several specimens of 

 a yellow Papilio, probably erithonius, Cr., and I believe 

 one allied to podalirius, L. Of the Blues I took one 

 Polyommatus bteticus, and three Zizcra karsandra, Moore. 



Two moths came to light, Oligochroa alcbarella, Rag., 

 and Earias tristrigosa, Butl. 



Near the waterworks at Bara, amidst a wilderness of 

 stones, I netted a female Belenois mesentina, three Blues, 

 Tarucus theophrastns, Fab. (2 £, 1 $), and my first Teracolus, 

 a female etrida, Boisd. Dr. Dixey tells me that he had no 

 idea that this species ranged so far north. A strange- 

 looking grasshopper, Truttalis nasuta, L., seemed well 

 adapted to its stony desert surroundings. 



From •Peshawar my most interesting expedition, from 

 every point of view, was to Ali Musjid in the Khaibar 

 Pass. This tiny white building, said to be the first. 



