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



L., was abundant, of E. merione, Cr., two specimens were 

 secured. The butterflies of this genus settle with the 

 wings three-fourths expanded. 



Neyheronia hippia was rather common ; though its 

 female somewhat mimics Tirumala limniace, the male, 

 when on the wing, looks much bluer than that insect. 



A brilliant fulvous Skipper, Telicota bambuste, Moore, 

 was the only representative of the group, but there were 

 several Blues, to wit Catochrysops strabo, Fab., which was 

 common ; Zampides celeno, Cr., larger than usual, one being 

 of the form alexis, Stoll. ; and Neopithecops zalmora, Butl., 

 was common. A single example of Curetis thetys, Dru., 

 fell to my net, apparently bitten by some enemy ; its 

 silvery white under-side is very striking. But perhaps the 

 strangest-looking butterfly of the lot was Loxura aty minus, 

 Cr., of which I got two. Its wings are much plaited 

 longitudinally, and when at rest its extremely long tails, 

 crumpled look, and brown colour give it quite the look of 

 a dead leaf. A closer examination shows that the portion 

 of the hind-wing near the anal angle is bent down, or 

 back, nearly to a right angle ; this bent portion is, how- 

 ever, relatively smaller, more oval and less sharply bent 

 than the rounder anal lobes of Bapala and Aphnxus ; 

 moreover it is not furnished with the very large marginal 

 scales which are so conspicuous in those genera. 



Toliganj. December 7th, 1903. 



About two miles from Baliganj, and due south of 

 Calcutta (about half-a-mile beyond the Sports Club), is the 

 locality referred to as Toliganj. Here too is an old 

 abandoned garden, but lacking the elements of departed 

 grandeur that give a poetic colouring to De Niceville's old 

 hunting-ground. The prominent features are a great 

 profusion of Lantana in full bloom, a bamboo grove and a 

 good deal of thorny jungle. The day that I was there the 

 Lantana was the chosen haunt of great numbers of the 

 bigger butterflies such as Delias eucharis, Tirumala limni- 

 ace, Limnas genutia, Papilio pammon, mostly worn, P. 

 aristolochite, and a few P. erithonius, together with an 

 occasional Nepheronia hippia, with his broad wings proudly 

 expanded to view. The sight of these big fellows, expand- 

 ing from three to four inches, quietly settled on the flowers, 

 or fluttering after the manner of Papilio, or grandly 

 sailing around gorgeous in their white, yellow and scarlet, 



