82. Dr. G. B. Longstaff’s Notes on the Butterflies 
Late in the afternoon I took a Papilio pammon, a female of 
Wallace’s Form II. polytes, which was flying about and 
into bushes, apparently seeking for a resting-place for the 
night, but possibly seeking where to Jay its eges. 
Close to the village of Khairna I saw upon the cliffs by 
the roadside several beautiful lizards, grey-spotted, with 
bright blue legs. 
On the long and hot way up again from Khairna to the 
ridge on which stand Ranikhet and Chaubattia, a dwarf 
Precis orithyia and a Neptis astola, Moore, were taken at 
about 3500 ft., and at about 4000 ft. Belenois mesentina, 
Pyrameis indica, and Llerda sena. 
At Ranikhet, 6000 ft. (where, by the way, the cooking at 
the Dak Bangla was the best that we came across in India), 
monkeys were not uncommon in the woods, but unlike 
our legumen-loving friends of Khairna, of a revoltingly 
ugly type; butterflies, however, were scarce, and were 
represented by Pyrameis cardui, Vanessa kashmirensis, 
Llerda sena, and Lycena maha, Koll., var. diluta, Feld. 
At Chaubattia, four miles to the east of Ranikhet, and 
at a height of about 6200 ft., the officers’ quarters com- 
mand a most glorious panorama of Nanda Devi, 25,749 
ft., Nanda Kot, 22,491 ft., and Trisul, 23,581 ft., mountains 
of unsurpassed grandeur | of form and held most sacred 
by pious Hindus as sources of Holy Ganges. These stand 
between fifty and sixty miles away, yet shine forth as clear 
and bright as if close to. Here there were rather more 
butterflies, viz. our old friends Terias hecabe, Precis enone 
and P. lemonias, Pyrameis cardwi, and Chrysophanus 
pavana, and in addition something quite fresh, the Eryeinid 
Dodona durga, Koll., of which I got three specimens; 
though a small insect it proved tenacious of life. A little 
beetle, Oides sp., was taken flying over the road. 
On descending again from Naini to the plains one found, 
as at Simla, that butterflies got more numerous and more 
Oriental in character. At the top of the road the Hair- 
streak, [lerda sena, was common; at 5000 ft. Vphthima 
philomela, Joh., was met with; at the Brewery, circa 4500 
ft., butterflies were very common at a flowery turn of the 
road, and J took Pyrameis indica, several Precis iphita, 
P. lemonias, and a male Hypolimnas bolina, while I missed 
a brown-and-white WVeptis-like butterfly which may have 
been Rahinda sinuata, Moore. 
