Observed in a tour through India and Ceylon. 83 
Lucknow, lat. 27° N., alt. circa 500 ft. 
November 24th and 25th, 1903. 
Lucknow possesses a museum containing a fair collection 
of insects, which would have been more instructive to me 
if a majority of the species had been named. 
My scanty collecting was almost confined to public 
gardens. Near the hotel was a small institution, either a 
children’s orphanage or hospital, and in the garden attached 
thereto Hypolimnas misippus, ¢, was rather common, 
but shy and worn; I took a battered one. Of H. bolina 
I took a female. Of Delias eucharis the males were 
common at Zinnia flowers. Odd specimens of Papilio 
aristolochiv and Parnara mathias, Fab., also occurred. 
In the beautiful garden of the Dilkusha Palace, where 
Havelock fell sick of the illness that was to prove fatal in 
the very hour of triumph, there was a great wealth of 
flowers and consequently a great assemblage of butterflies. 
Besides such things as Papilio erithonius; Argynnis niphe 
(a 2); Hypolimnas misippus, several males; Crastia 
core, both typical and the variety vermiculata, Butl.; and 
a Catopsilia which evaded capture, I took there my first 
Rapala melampus, Cramer. This is a small copper-coloured 
butterfly belonging to a genus which, with its robust body, 
sharp-cut wings, and curious anal lobe to the hind-wing, 
looks very ditferent from our Hairstreaks or Coppers. It 
is neither easy to see on the small flowers which it 
frequents, nor to catch. 
Other butterflies taken in the same garden were the 
Blues Catochrysops strabo, Fab., and Tarueus telicanus, 
Lang, the latter abundant; Mycalesis persews, and the 
brilhant tawny Skipper TZelicota augias, L. A beautiful 
little Noctua with yellow under-wings, Hyblea puera, 
Cram., was taken at flowers in full sunlight. The Blue 
Lizra argia, var. similis, Moore, was in abundance. I also 
took a locust, Gastrimargus marmoratus, Thun., a species 
of wide distribution. 
By the roadside between Dilkusha and La Martiniere a 
few Chilades putli, Koll. a very small brown Lycenid, 
were obtained. 
At the Alumbagh, ever to be remembered in connection 
with Colin Campbell, the dry-season form of Jerias hecabe 
was flitting quietly about, and I netted Jzias marianne 
(not so vulgar-looking as its name might lead one to 
