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



Leucophasia sinapis, a slender form and fragile appearance 

 being in each case associated with a weak flight close to the 

 ground. One of the Y. hiibneri had the whole hind margin 

 of both secondaries bitten off nearly symmetrically. 



Catopsilia pyranthc and G. ponwna were both met with, 

 the former the more frequently. No Papilio turned up 

 although I was told that P. pammon occurs in the garden. 

 Amongst young palms the males of Elymnias undidaris, 

 Dru., were occasionally disturbed, and a very striking- 

 thing it is. Then Nephcronia hippia, F., came along, flying 

 strongly, the male looking on the wing, or more especially 

 when settled on a flower with wings expanded, much 

 bluer than its cabinet appearance might lead one to sup- 

 pose. Three Limenitis procris, Cr., required some catching, 

 preferring the leaves of tall shrubs to flowers ; but it is 

 scarcely as graceful on the wing as our White Admiral. 



I took two specimens of Catoehrysops pandava, Horsf, 

 var. bengalia, De Nicev. (being the dry-season form) ; the 

 female is a dingy creature, but the male is of an iridescent 

 blue, bordered with black. Hypolimnas misippus, $ , 

 Precis cdmana and P. lemonias completed the list of twenty 

 species taken in four visits to the gardens. With them 

 was a bee Mis thoracica, Fab., a $. 



B&liganj. 



At the truly splendid museum (where, by the way, I saw 

 a native artist at work producing some of the very best 

 coloured figures of beetles and butterflies that I have ever 

 seen), Mr. S. E. Peal, besides helping me in other ways, 

 put me on the track of one of the late Mr. DeNiceville's 

 favourite collecting-grounds, a rus in urbc, at Baliganj, a 

 suburb only three miles from the hotel. I visited this 

 place twice, on December 5th and 9th. It consists of a 

 large deserted garden long run wild ; weedy meadows and 

 jungly woods are all that is left of trim lawns and ordered 

 shrubberies, while a palm avenue and several tanks covered 

 with a floating flower of the convolvulus oixler, harbouring 

 countless dragon-flies, complete the tale of departed great- 

 ness. Altogether it is full of sad beauty. Palms and 

 crotons with an undergrowth of ferns were the char- 

 acteristic plants, flowers were few, yet in certain favoured 

 spots butterflies were in quite bewildering swarms. The 

 quiet charm of this old garden was greatly enhanced by 

 the absence of curious natives and the (comparative) absence 



