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



how it could have been inflicted by an enemy without 

 simultaneous injury to the fore-wings. 



This day I saw two Omithoptera darsius, one quite out 

 of reach, the other I missed badly. 



Hatton, alt. 4200 ft. 

 March 16th— 18th, 1904. 



In going up-country from Kandy when near Ullapane 

 station [alt. c. 2500 ft.] I caught, from the train, Nar- 

 mada montana, Feld., and a little further on, c. 3000 ft., 

 a male Catophaga paulina, a species that is very abundant 

 in the Ceylon highlands. 



Before Hatton is reached the line enters the tea country, 

 whence the glorious primaeval forests have disappeared, 

 having been ruthlessly and completely cleared out to make 

 way first for coffee and later for tea. Though doubtless 

 "grateful and comforting," the tea-plant is most un- 

 picturesque, only slightly surpassing the potato in that 

 quality. The Grevilleas with their light feathery foliage, 

 planted in regular rows to slightly shelter the tea from 

 sun and wind, do but little to relieve its stiffness, and are 

 a miserable substitute for the departed woodland glories. 

 About Hatton there are but scraps of the forest left on the 

 tops of the highest hills, and we were told that the tea- 

 planters are constantly urging the Forest Department to 

 allow these to be improved away. It results that what once 

 was doubtless a grand entomological locality is now a very 

 poor one. 



Here for the first time I examined Catophaga paidina for 

 scent, and was surprised to find that the three males tested 

 had a scent nearly as strong as that of P. napi; it was 

 described at the time as " like sweet-briar, but sweeter and 

 more luscious," and I wrote to Dr. Dixey the same evening, 

 adding " I had no doubt whatever." 



About the hotel garden Argynnis niphe was common, a 

 male had the fore-wings notably shorter and broader than 

 usual. 



A short walk in what is left of the old forest, towards 

 the top of a high hill, say at about 4500 ft., produced 

 several specimens of Lethe daretis, Hew., a regular sylvan 

 Satyrid, repeatedly settling on the path, apparently always 

 erect. Two of them have lost large portions of the hind- 



