104 Dr. G. B. Longstaffs Notes on the Butterflies 



pursuit of larger game. For these reasons too much 

 weight should not be attached to the observation that 

 such and such a species was common or abundant, but the 

 qualification, "or something superficially like it," should be 

 added. 



Two moths came to light, an Agrotid Euxoa spinifera, 

 Hiibn., and the Maearia-Mke Scmiothisa frugaliata, Guen. 

 I also took a brown beetle, Bolboceras quadridens, Fab. 



After prolonged drought there was a heavy rainstorm at 

 Jhansi on January 14th, and there was slight rain at 

 Gwalior on the 16th and 17th. With the exception of a 

 very few days when there had been clouds and occasionally 

 a few drops of rain, there had been almost uninterrupted 

 sunshine for three months, i. e. since October 8th. On 

 January 20th, writing to Dr. Dixey, I said, " There has 

 been a very cold 'wave' in Northern India with a few 

 showers of rain, but scarcely enough of the latter to affect 

 either vegetation or insects." On January 23rd there was 

 gentle rain at Jhansi lasting several hours. 



On January 21st I had another day's collecting at 

 Jhansi, but the species taken were not such as to show 

 any effect in the way of change of type due to the rain, 

 even if such change had been possible. The insects met 

 with were B. mesentina, I. marianne, T. ctrida, A. phalanta, 

 and Tarucus theophrashts. 



Orcha. 



On January 9th I had an hour's collecting in this inter- 

 esting deserted city, some eight miles to the east of Jhansi, 

 and took or saw Limnas genutia, Precis temonias, P. amone, 

 and P. orithyia (this last in abundance), Atclla phalanta, 

 an Ixias, Teracolus etrida, a Terias, and several female 

 Bclenois mesentina. Monkeys were almost as common as 

 butterflies among the ruined tombs. 



Burwa Sdgar. 



On January 14th I got a couple of hours' collecting in 

 the neighbourhood of the interesting and romantically- 

 situated old castle of this name, which lies some twelve 

 miles to the east of Jhansi. 



Here I observed in two specimens of Limnas chrysippus 

 (of which certainly one was a male) a distinct cockroach- 

 like odour, sufficiently strong to be perceptible when the 



