Observed in a tour through India and Ceylon. 83 



Zucfowiv, lat. 27° N., alt. circa 500 ft. 

 November 24th and 25th, 1903. 



Lucknow possesses a museum containing a fair collection 

 of insects, which would have been more instructive to me 

 if a majority of the species had been named. 



My scanty collecting was almost confined to public 

 gardens. Near the hotel was a small institution, either a 

 children's orphanage or hospital, and in the garden attached 

 thereto Hypolimnas misippus, £ , was rather common, 

 but shy and worn ; I took a battered one. Of H. bolina 

 I took a female. Of Delias eucharis the males were 

 common at Zinnia flowers. Odd specimens of Papilio 

 aristolochim and Parnara mathias, Fab., also occurred. 



In the beautiful garden of the Dilkusha Palace, where 

 Havelock fell sick of the illness that was to prove fatal in 

 the very hour of triumph, there was a great wealth of 

 flowers and consequently a great assemblage of butterflies. 

 Besides such things as Papilio erithonius) Argynnis niphc 

 (a $ ) ; Hypolimnas misippus, several males ; Crastia 

 core, both typical and the variety vermiculata, Butl. ; and 

 a Catopsilia which evaded capture, I took there my first 

 Rapala melampus, Cramer. This is a small copper-coloured 

 butterfly belonging to a genus which, with its robust body, 

 sharp-cut wings, and curious anal lobe to the hind-wing, 

 looks very different from our Hairstreaks or Coppers. It 

 is neither easy to see on the small flowers which it 

 frequents, nor to catch. 



Other butterflies taken in the same garden were the 

 Blues Catochrysops strabo, Fab., and Tarucus telicanus, 

 Lang, the latter abundant ; Mycalesis perseus, and the 

 brilliant tawny Skipper Telicota augias, L. A beautiful 

 little Noctua with yellow under- wings, Hyblma puera, 

 Cram., was taken at flowers in full sunlight. The Blue 

 Zizcra argia, var. similis, Moore, was in abundance. I also 

 took a locust, Gastrimargus marmoratus, Thun., a species 

 of wide distribution. 



By the roadside between Dilkusha and La Martiniere a 

 few Chilades putli, Koll., a very small brown Lycsenid, 

 were obtained. 



At the Alumbagh, ever to be remembered in connection 

 with Colin Campbell, the dry-season form of Terias hecabe 

 was flitting quietly about, and I netted Ixias marianne 

 (not so vulgar-looking as its name might lead one to 



