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



addition two moths, an Arctiid, Leucoma submarginata, 

 Walk., and a Nyctemerid, the fuscous-and-white Zonosoma 

 cenis, Cram. ( = intcrlectum, Walk.), the former possibly, 

 the latter certainly a day-flyer. 



At last I dragged myself away and an hour later reached 

 a most attractive flowery bank immediately above the 

 river. This was evidently a great place, for in a very short 

 time I secured two sadly battered Papilio m.emnon, L., of the 

 form agenor, L. ; a large male Ixias pyrene with the fore- 

 wings almost symmetrically bitten near the tip of the costa ; 

 also an insect that I had greatly desired to take, the lovely 

 and delicate-looking " map-butterfly,'' Cyrcstis thyodamas, 

 Bdv., in splendid condition. This, a Nymphalid, by the 

 possession of a well-marked anal lobe to the hind-wing 

 suggested the Rapala group of Lycsenids, but a close 

 examination of the veins shows that neither lobe nor tail 

 is homologous in the two widely separated genera. In ad- 

 dition to the above I took a second Gaduga tytia, Gray, the 

 first having been netted 1000 feet higher. This blue-and- 

 black Danaid is distinguished by having brown hind-wings. 

 Time was however getting on and my "sais" was waiting 

 with the pony by the little bridge, so I reluctantly mounted. 

 I had not ridden far when I caught a glimpse of Kallima 

 inachis, Bdv., flying by the roadside ; flinging myself out of 

 the saddle I was fortunate in netting the butterfly of all 

 others that I had wished to see alive. It proved to be a fine 

 female ; I could not afford to risk waiting to see her settle, 

 and alas ! never saw another. A few minutes later my 

 sais brought me a damaged Ewplcea with a lovely purple 

 gloss; seeing many about I foolishly did not keep it. 

 These things happened close to the Tista bridge, by which 

 the road to Lhasa crosses the river, here only some 650 feet 

 above the sea, so deeply are these Himalayan valleys cut 

 down. Sad to say in a few minutes the winding of the 

 road took me under the deep chill shadow of the mountain 

 and the purple-glossed Buphvas and nearly all the other 

 butterflies vanished for that day. A solitary Neptis accris, 

 Cr., together with a few Ixias pyrene, Huphina ncrissa and 

 Lampides clpis, were all that I saw ; with them was a. 

 Nyctemerid day-flying moth, Trypheromera plagifera, Wk. 



The rest-house at Kiang was reached too late for any more 

 collecting, and I had to content myself with watching the 

 long trains of Colonel Younghusband's bullock wagons 

 painfully dragging loads of compressed hay for the Tibetan 



