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



than ten species, some of them represented by numerous 

 individuals. 



Buddha Gat/a, lat. 24° 42' N„ alt. c. 500 ft. 

 December 30th and 31st, 1903. 



The vicinity of the shrine and its sacred Bo tree was not 

 productive. All the butterflies that I saw there were one 

 Terias libythea, a number of Huphina ncrissa (the male 

 yielding a distinct, but not strong, flowery scent), together 

 with a lot of the Lycsenid Zizera Icarsandra, Moore. 



The next day, on a steep hill of red trap rock overlook- 

 ing the town, I saw for the first time the Acrseid Telcliinia 

 vioLv, reminding one on the wing of Argynnis euphrosyne ; 

 it was locally abundant and gregarious, its tone of colour- 

 ing harmonizing with the red igneous rock. On the same 

 hill were two or three Precis cenone and several small 

 P. orithyia, while Zizera otis, Fab., was abundant. 



In the course of this walk I noticed a Fakir, or religious 

 mendicant ascetic, watching my operations with evident 

 suspicion, probably owing to the reverence in which some 

 of these folk hold all animal life. Presently a small native 

 boy threw a stone at a squirrel. I thought better of the 

 Fakir when he cursed the boy so fiercely that he fled in 

 terror as fast as the squirrel, while I rolled up my 

 umbrella-net and passed on, trying to elude observation ! 



Mozufferpur, lat. 28° 8' N., alt. c. 300 ft. 



On a flying visit, January 2nd, 1904, to this place, nearly 

 north of Bankapiir, I took in my host's garden two Zizera 

 otis, Fab., and one Zizera maha, Koll. 



Allahabad, lat. 25° 30' N., alt. 370 ft. 



Here on January 4th I saw a few of the very commonest 

 Indian butterflies in the public garden. The railway 

 carriage before leaving in the evening produced a grass- 

 hopper, Atractomorpha {Perena) sp., and Prodenia littoralis, 

 a Noctua that came to light. This last proved tenacious 

 of life, it laid a number of eggs in its paper which hatched 

 on the voyage, the young larva3 perishing miserably. 



