Observed in a tour through India and Ceylon. 8l 



up from the path only to return again to the same stone, 

 while several "Small Coppers" (Chrysophanus p>avana) 

 disport themselves about the autumn Mowers on the 

 bank. Quite a Palasarctic picture surely ! 



In addition to these I found at Naini Terias hecahe, the 

 Hairstreak Ilcrda scua, Moore, and the Blue Zizera maha, 

 Koll., also the Fossor, Pompilus analis, Fab., £ , while 

 Agrotis fiammatra, Guen.. came to light. 



A climb to the top of China Peak (pronounced Cheena), 

 8568 ft., produced two more Palsearctic forms, Argynnis 

 lathonia, var. iss&a, and Lycama bmtica. 



Five days were spent on horseback in an expedition 

 into Kumaon as far as Ranikhet and Chaubattia, some 

 twenty-four miles north of Naini as the crow flies. The road, 

 at first slippery with ice so as to compel us to dismount, falls 

 rapidly to Khairna (Khairana, or Khyrna, for the spelling 

 seems uncertain). At about 6000 ft. Ilcrda sena was again 

 met with, at about 4000 ft. Neptis astola, Moore, and 

 Terias hecabe. When near the bottom our eye was caught 

 by the fluttering down of shells from a large pod-bearing 

 tree. On looking up we saw about a dozen charming- 

 looking greenish monkeys, their little black faces set off 

 with most becoming white frills. It did not take them 

 long to strip that tree of every pod. 



At Khairna, 3200 ft., a tiny village in a deep and 

 narrow valley, I had a little time for collecting, but it was 

 limited by the steady march of the great chill mountain 

 shadow, which sent all butterflies quickly off* to bed. 

 Precis orithyia was common, but the specimens were very 

 small ; P. cenone, P. lemonias and P. iphita were also seen, 

 the latter at flowers, not a usual habit of the species. 

 Several Athyma perms were seen, also several Catopsilia 

 pyranthe; of those taken one was the gnoma, the other 

 of the pyranthe form. Of Ganoris canidia and Tarueus 

 telicanus, Lang, I took one each, but Zizera maha, Koll., was 

 in abundance. In addition to these were Deiopeia pulcJiclla, 

 flying for short distances about low herbage according to 

 its wont, and a fly which hovered at flowers just like a 

 Sphinx — a Bombylius not in the National Collection. The 

 widely-distributed locust, Thisoicetrus littoralis, Ramb., 

 which was very common, had the curious habit after its short 

 flight of settling so brusquely upon a shrub as to make its 

 blanches shake, but then quickly making its way to the 

 ground. I missed a Macroglossa twice at the same bush. 



TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1905. — PART I. (MAY) 6 



