78 Dr. G. B. Longstatfs Notes on the Butterflies 
the male and is hence termed pammon pammon. Of 
Precis almana I took one, of the ubiquitous Selenois 
mesentina likewise one, a female, but I was somewhat 
surprised to net a Colius fieldii, 2, since the great plain of 
the Panjab seemed an unlikely locality for a Colias. 
Yphthima nareda, Koll., was scarcely common in the 
hotel garden, it flew close to the ground. The list closes 
with Polyommatus beticus and a grasshopper to which Mr. 
Kirby cannot assign a name, 
Dethi, lat. 28° 30’ N., alt. circa 700 ft. 
November 7th—12th, 1908. 
When collecting in the Kudsia Gardens at Delhi it was 
impossible not to be impressed with the historic associa- 
tions of the ground. Lying between the northern walls of 
the city, the famous ridge, and the mighty Jumna, scarcely 
more than a furlong from John Nicholson’s grave, stands, 
nearly hidden by trees and flowering shrubs, all that is left 
of the Summer Palace of the kings of Delhi. Its crumb- 
ling walls, where not covered by Bougainvilleas or other 
creepers, bear testimony by many a bullet-mark and round- 
shot hole how fire-swept the place was during the long hot 
days of 1857. Concrete blocks with suitable inscriptions 
mark the sites of the breaching batteries of the last stages 
of the siege—batteries placed strangely near the walls 
when measured by the range of modern guns, for yon 
breach in the Water Bastion is scarce two hundred yards 
from the most advanced battery ! 
Here in a beautiful garden, the very ideal of quiet and 
peace, where the numerous grey-striped squirrels are quite 
tame and the greenest of parrots and the crested hoopoes 
look as if war were unknown upon earth—here I watched 
many gorgeous Papilio aristolochix, Fab., fluttering upon 
the flowers, or sailing over the trees ; at one moment look- 
ing like black crépe against the light, at another displaying 
a circlet of brilliant rubies beneath. Once I had three 
together in my net! With these were a few P. erithonius 
and P. polytes, the latter females of Form II. 
Limnas chrysippus was also common, one, a male, was 
unusually small. Crastia core, Cr., was common in shady 
places under mango trees, but was rarely seen at flowers. 
The pretty little black and salmon-coloured Tevracolus 
