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insect was fluttering in the net. Of Gatopsilia pyranthe I 

 took a female of the gnoma form ; of Terias hccabc a male, 

 the variety without the " dog's head " mark. T. Ixta was 

 quite abundant. Two specimens oi Hupliina nerissa were 

 taken, one worn, the other a dwarf. The male of Bclenois 

 mesentina was common, in two specimens I detected a 

 sweet scent like that of P. rapx, but more or less faint. A 

 Polyommatus bxticus completes the list. 



Agra, lat. 27° N., alt. 550 ft. 



January 25th and 26th, 1904. 



At the sisrht-seeing centre of India there was but little 

 time or opportunity for entomology. In the fair gardens 

 of the Taj Mahal Limnas ckrysippus was abundant, three 

 or four Papilio aristolochix haunted the brilliant orange- 

 coloured flowers of Bignonia venusta, and a few Belcnois 

 mesentina were flying around. In the Government garden 

 close by I also saw the Belenois, together with Huphina 

 nerissa, Precis orithyia, and P. lemonias, Limnas chrysippus, 

 and L. genutia, also a Teracolus, and some Blues which 

 escaped capture. 



Fathipur Sikri. 



January 28th and 29th, 1904. 



At the abandoned capital of Akbar the Great, the 

 Pompeii of India, some twenty-two miles west of Agra, 

 those ruin-frequenting butterflies, Belenois mesentina and 

 Teracolus etrida, were both common, but all appeared to be 

 males. The Belenois had a faint, sweet, flowery scent, 

 which did not appear to me to be quite like that of any 

 other insect. 



I also took one Teracolus puellaris, a female, and a most 

 ferocious hornet, Eumenes dimididtipennis, Sauss., a %. 



Jdipur, lat. 27° N., alt. 1600 ft. 



February 2nd, 1904. 



The fine public gardens of the enlightened Maharajah 

 are too well kept to be a good collecting-ground. Terias 

 Ixta was however to be had there [as well as at the 

 deserted capital Amber, a few miles to the north and on 

 higher ground] ; those taken were males ; a very small 



