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



Catochrysops strabo, Fab., was common, also Polyommatus 

 btsticus, one specimen having lost two-thirds of each hind- 

 wing, presumably the work of some enemy ; of Zizera 

 harsandra, Moore, I took one. 



At night several moths came to light, viz. the Ocneriad, 

 Enome detersa, Walk., the Geometers, Tephrinia disputaria, 

 Guen., and Idma fibulata ? Guen. (worn), and the very 

 widely-distributed Etiella zinckenella, Treit. 



A ferocious-looking spider, a Solpuga, shared the Dak 

 Bungla with us. 



Anantdpur, lat. 14° 30' N., alt. c. 1500 ft. 

 February 18th— 23rd, 1904. 



This small civil station, situated on an irrigated though 

 elevated plain devoted to the growing of cotton and rice, is 

 typical of Southern India. 



A very hot walk to some small granite hills on the other 

 side of the lake produced little beside two males of Ixias 

 marianne, and a solitary Teracolus eucharis ; the hills 

 seemed too hot, dry, and parched to harbour butterflies. 



About the trees along the dam, or " bandh," were a few 

 Hypolimnas misippus, males, and abundance of Papilio 

 aristolochim. 



In the cotton fields by the river Hypanis [Biblia] ilithyia, 

 Dru., was to be got, but not plentifully. 



The best collecting-ground was a very weedy nursery 

 garden and orchard. Here I one day had the advantage 

 of the assistance of my host, Mr. Edwin Scott, I.C.S., 

 whose keen appreciation of scents helped me greatly. 

 Limnas chrysippus was abundant ; of its scent Mr. Scott's 

 first impression was " some sort of dung," then " a zoo " ; 

 later he said " possibly like a cockroach, but more like a 

 musk-rat." The scent is, I think, general, but is perhaps 

 stronger when the scent sacs on the hind-wings are opened : 

 a fact that I also observed at Calcutta. 



Crastia core was common and gregarious, frequenting a 

 special mango-tree. When he smelt this insect Mr. Scott 

 at once cried out "acetylene," adding that he would like 

 to put a lighted match to it to see whether it would burn ! 

 Subsequent observations on the butterfly and the gas con- 

 vinced me of the accuracy of his comparison. The genital 

 organs appear to exude the scent, probably the long tufts 

 appended to them. 



