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expect), also a variety of the female of I. pyrcne without 

 the orange-tip. A male of the wet-season form of Hu- 

 phina nerissa was also taken, while Delias eucharis was 

 common, a specimen feeding on Zinnia flowers close to 

 Havelock's grave. Deiopeia pidchella was flying com- 

 monly in the sun amongst the grass, and with it a specimen 

 of Argina cribraria, Clerck. The Coleopteva were repre- 

 sented by Mylabris sidai, Fab., and the Micros by a Pyrale, 

 Pyrausta jimcturalis, Wlk. 



In the Presidency garden I took only a worn Acidaliid 

 and the common Cantharid beetle, Mylabris sid&, Fab., 

 which was seen in some numbers Hying about the flowers 

 of a species of Hibiscus. 



Benares, lat. 25° N., alt. 270 ft. 



November 28th — December 2nd, 1903. 



The sacred city of the Hindus proved more remarkable 

 for the number and variety of its pilgrims than for its 

 butterflies. In the hotel garden, where jackals howled 

 loudly by night, a few battered specimens of Papilio 

 erilhonius were seen by day, and the males of both species 

 of Hypolimnas were fairly common. Of H. bolina I took 

 a fine female, while of mistppus I also sent home a female 

 which is marked "common." It is, however, certain that I 

 did not know this insect to be a Hypolimnas at the time, 

 since I only learned from the Calcutta Collection that the 

 female of misippus was brown ! There is therefore little 

 doubt that I took it for a variety of Limnas chrysippus which 

 it mimics in such a surprising manner, and which certainly 

 was common enough in the same garden. It is one of 

 the inconveniences of the method of enveloping that so 

 much is left to memory, and the chances of comparing 

 insects are so very few. Dwarfed specimens of Precis 

 orithyia were now very common ; P. cenone and P. 

 lemonias were less common but almost as small. Several 

 P. almana occurred. But in spite of the excessive drought 

 and the consequent occurrence of dwarfs, one of my 

 specimens of Terias hccabe taken at Benares was quite of 

 " wet-season " type. Catopsilia pomona was represented 

 by a very large male of the typical form and a smaller 

 female in fine condition, exhibiting the transition to the 

 catilla, Cr., or extreme dry-season form. Similarly C. 



