70 Dr. G. B. Longstaff’s Notes on the Butterflies 
Solon, circa 5000 ft., to Kdl/ka, 2184 ft. 
October 20th, 1903. 
Starting from Simla by starlight, soon after 5 a.m., we 
got to Solon by breakfast-time, and I there caught at 9 
am. my first butterflies, two a/sus-like Blues, Zizera 
karsandra, Moore, and Z maha, Koll. Also two flies, a 
Musca of the domestica, L., group, and an Anthomyid. 
On the drive from Solon to Kalka, by making the most 
of stoppages to change horses, and by occasionally jumping 
out of the carriage, I managed to secure quite a lot of 
things. Among the commonest was the beautiful Precis 
enone, L., and with it P. orithyia and P. lemonias. Of Atella 
phalanta, Belenois mesentina, 2, and Ilerda sena, I took 
single examples. Terias lxta, Boisd., was rather common. 
There were also Catopsilia pyranthe, L., the gnoma-form, 
Terias hecabe,and Huphina nerissa. About two miles above 
Kalka, say at about 2700 ft., I got a single Precis iphita, Cr. 
At about the same place the great catch of the morning was 
made, for I took my first Hypolimnas bolina, three males 
and a female, believing them at the time to be two species. 
Why does not this glorious insect retain its far more 
poetical and more appropriate name, Diadema jacintha ? 
Surely a black butterfly 34 inches in expanse with four 
large glancing-blue spots, one on either wing, deserves to 
be called after a gem. Anyway,I shall never forget the 
impression produced by my first sight of its truly oriental 
splendour; it was like Kingsley’s “ At last!” 
On my way down I also saw Pyrameis indica, and missed 
two Papilios, probably P. machaon. 
At Kalka I got an hour and a half’s collecting late in 
the afternoon; it was partly on waste ground about the 
station, but mainly in a field bearing a crop of some kind 
of pulse with thin pods 4—5 inches long. 
A black and brown Cantharid beetle, Mylabris sidx, Fab., 
was flying about flowers in the sunshine in large numbers. 
The genus Precis was represented by orithyia and enone ; 
the genus Terias by hecabe, leta, and quite a number of 
libythea. The inevitable Atella phalanta, never very 
common, and Belenois mesentina were to the front again. 
Ganoris canidia was fairly common; I noted that a male had 
a“snuffy scent.” Single specimens of [xias marianne, Cr., 
and Huphina nerissa, both males, were taken, Of Cato- 
