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hind-wings, which tried, not without occasional success, 

 to pass itself off as a Blue. A few hasty observations on 

 this species when at rest failed to detect any such " list " 

 as is common in many members of the family. 



I sent home two specimens of Mycalcsis perseus, one an 

 ordinary example of the dry-season form in which the 

 ocelli are indicated by faint dark dots, the other (unfortun- 

 ately very tattered) in which the full complement of 

 ocelli on the under-surface is indicated by conspicuous 

 chalky- white spots of varying cizes, to wit, two large and 

 one small on the primaries and two large and five small 

 on the secondaries. Three of these spots are faintly 

 visible on the upper-surface. There are no rings and no 

 pupils to the spots. It would appear to be a unique 

 aberration of the dry-season form. In the shade along 

 with the above Satyrids was the inevitable Nychitona 

 xiphia and a solitary male Elymnias undufaris. 



A weedy neglected field near the river yielded besides 

 Limnas chrysi2)pus and Atella phalanta plenty of the 

 "orange-tip" Ixias marianne, as well as a smaller number 

 of the more gaudy Ixias pyrene. One proved to be a worn 

 specimen of the female lacking the orange tip, a distinct 

 and well- marked variety ; another was of the racial form 

 eingalensis, Moore. The " whites " Huphina nerissa and 

 Gatophaga paulina were in plenty. A single Gatopsilia 

 pomona was netted, a somewhat papery-looking insect, 

 especially on the under-side, also several G. pyranthe of the 

 " transitional Gnoma " form. In one of the latter (a male) 

 I detected a faint scent, but less like that of jasmine than 

 in the Gatopsilias examined at Anantapiir. In the same 

 field Telchinia violse was abundant, while Ergolls ariadne 

 was, as usual, common among Rieinus. 



But all this time Solomon was most anxious to get me 

 down to the river. This is a rapidly-flowing stream, 

 occupying perhaps half its bed, and having on either bank 

 sloping woods of mixed growth. Solomon sought out a 

 place where a tiny tributary emerging from a rushy swamp 

 trickled over the damp sand. He forthwith stuck into 

 the wet sand a foot or so from the rill and well clear of the 

 herbage, three or four large butterflies of which he had 

 netted worn or broken specimens ; then he stood by to 

 watch. Nothing much happened, for unfortunately clouds 

 had come up and the afternoon was only partly sunny, 

 whereas to get many things at water, whether decoys be 



