84 Dr. G. B. Longstaff’s Notes on the Butterflies 
expect), also a variety of the female of J. pyrene without 
the orange-tip. A male of the wet-season form of Hu- 
phina nerissa was also taken, while Delias eucharis was 
common, a specimen feeding on Zinnia flowers close to 
Havelock’s grave.  Deiopeia pulchella was flying com- 
monly in the sun amongst the grass, and with it a specimen 
of Argina cribraria, Clerck. The Coleoptera were repre- 
sented by Mylabris sidx, Fab., and the Micros by a Pyrale, 
Pyrausta juncturalis, Wik. 
In the Presidency garden I took only a worn Acidaliid 
and the common Cantharid beetle, Mylabris sidw, Fab., 
which was seen in some numbers flying about the} flowers 
of a species of Hibiscus. 
Benares, lat. 25° N., alt. 270 ft. 
November 28th—December 2nd, 1903. 
The sacred city of the Hindus proved more remarkable 
for the number and variety of its pilgrims than for its 
buttertlies. In the hotel garden, where jackals howled 
loudly by night, a few battered specimens of Papilio 
erithonius were seen by day, and the males of both species 
of Hypolimnas were fairly common. Of H. bolina I took 
a fine female, while of misippus I also sent home a female 
which is marked “common.” It is, however, certain that I 
did not know this insect to be a Hypolimnas at the time, 
since I only learned from the Calcutta Collection that the 
female of misippus was brown! There is therefore little 
doubt that I took it for a variety of Limnas chrysippus which 
it mimics 1n such a surprising manner, and which certainly 
was common enough in the same garden. It is one of 
the inconveniences of the method of enveloping that so 
much is left to memory, and the chances of comparing 
insects are so very few. Dwarfed specimens of Precis 
orithyia were now very common; P. wnone and P. 
lemonias were less common but almost as small. Several 
P. almana occurred. But in spite of the excessive drought 
and the consequent occurrence of dwarfs, one of my 
specimens of Terias hecabe taken at Benares was quite of 
‘““wet-season”’ type. Catopsilia pomona was represented 
by a very large male of the typical form and a smaller 
female in fine condition, exhibiting the transition to the 
catilla, Cr., or extreme dry-season form. Similarly C. 
