74 Dr. G. B. Longstaff’s Notes on the Butterflies 
mon, but preferred the wet mud left in the irrigation 
channels to any flowers. Argynnis niphe was also com- 
mon, but had more refined taste, and was usually taken 
on the marigold beds; its female was observed during life 
to resemble ZL. genutia. Precis almana was common; P. 
orithyia very abundant at the same flowers, together with 
a few P. wnone, one of them very fine and large. As 
usual in India Atella phalanta and Belenois mesentina put 
in an appearance, the first at marigold, the second (a f) 
among the lucerne. The Hairstreak L/erda sena occurred 
alike at marigold and high up on the mountain-side. The 
flowers of Gaillardia proved more attractive to the smaller 
fry than the coarser marigolds ; the brown Skipper, Parnara 
mathias, Fab., was in abundance, so were the dingy Blues, 
Lizra karsandra, Moore, and Z. maha, Koll, but the 
latter and its variety diluta, Feld., preferred mud to any 
flowers. 
Other small things were Polyommatus beticus, and the 
Skipper Gegenes nostrodamus, Fab., which was common at 
the flowers of Gai//lardia and marigold. I saw this species 
at Malakand only, and unfortunately secured but two 
specimens. Two or three Melitea trivia also turned up 
at these favourite flowers. Not far from the garden I took 
two more Hipparchia parisatis ; this does not appear to be 
much attracted by flowers, but settles on the ground and 
is then often very hard to see. I observed it lean over 
from 20° to 30°, and even saw it walking about with a 
“list” of 20°. 
Lahore, lat. 31° 35’ N., alt. circa 700 ft. 
October 3lst—November 4th. 
At the capital of the Panjab, a city of the plains, my 
chief collecting ground was the extensive Lawrence 
Garden, which though full of flowers is, in parts, so wild 
that, not to mention a mongoose, I even came across a 
jackal at midday. The class of butterflies found here 
differed widely trom those met with at Simla and further 
north, the predominant forms being Oriental. Here I 
first captured Papilio erithonius, Cr., the “ tailless swallow- 
tail,” which I had perhaps seen at Peshawar; this butter- 
fly has a wide range in India and might almost be termed 
abundant, it especially frequents the flowers of Zinnia, 
