78 Dr. G. B. Longstaff's Notes on the Butterflies 



the male and is hence termed pamm.on <pammon. Of 

 Precis almana I took one, of the ubiquitous Belenois 

 mescntina likewise one, a female, but I was somewhat 

 surprised to net a Golias fieldii, %, since the great plain of 

 the Panjab seemed an unlikely locality for a Colias. 



Yphthima nareda, Koll., was scarcely common in the 

 hotel garden, it flew close to the ground. The list closes 

 with Polyommatus hxticus and a grasshopper to which Mr. 

 Kirby cannot assign a name. 



Delhi, lat. 28° 30' N., alt. circa 700 ft. 



November 7th— 12th, 1903. 



When collecting in the Kudsia Gardens at Delhi it was 

 impossible not to be impressed with the historic associa- 

 tions of the ground. Lying between the northern walls of 

 the city, the famous ridge, and the mighty Jumna, scarcely 

 more than a furlong from John Nicholson's grave, stands, 

 nearly hidden by trees and flowering shrubs, all that is left 

 of the Summer Palace of the kings of Delhi. Its crumb- 

 ling walls, where not covered by Bougainvilleas or other 

 creepers, bear testimony by many a bullet-mark and round- 

 shot hole how fire-swept the place was during the long hot 

 days of 1857. Concrete blocks with suitable inscriptions 

 mark the sites of the breaching batteries of the last stages 

 of the siege — batteries placed strangely near the walls 

 when measured by the range of modern guns, for yon 

 breach in the Water Bastion is scarce two hundred yards 

 from the most advanced battery ! 



Here in a beautiful garden, the very ideal of quiet and 

 peace, where the numerous grey-striped squirrels are quite 

 tame and the greenest of parrots and the crested hoopoes 

 look as if war were unknown upon earth — here I watched 

 many gorgeous Pcqnlio aristolochim, Fab., fluttering upon 

 the flowers, or sailing over the trees ; at one moment look- 

 ing like black crepe against the light, at another displaying 

 a circlet of brilliant rubies beneath. Once I had three 

 together in my net ! With these were a few P. erithonius 

 and P. <polytes, the latter females of Form II. 



Limnas chrysipptis was also common, one, a male, was 

 unusually small. Grastia core, Cr., was common in shady 

 places under mango trees, but was rarely seen at flowers. 

 The pretty little black and salmon-coloured Teracolus 



