88 Dr. G. B. Longstaff’s Notes on the Butterflies 
Leucophasia sinapis, a slender form and fragile appearance 
being in each case associated with a weak flight close to the 
ground. One of the Y. hiibneri had the whole hind margin 
of both secondaries bitten off nearly symmetrically. 
Catopsilia pyranthe and C. pomona were both met with, 
the former the more frequently. No Papilio turned up 
although I was told that P. pammon occurs in the garden. 
Amongst young palms the males of Hlymnias undularis, 
Dru., were occasionally disturbed, and a very striking 
thing it is. Then Nepheronia hippia, F.,came along, flying 
strongly, the male looking on the wing, or more especially 
when settled on a flower with wings expanded, much 
bluer than its cabinet appearance might lead one to sup- 
pose. Three Limenitis procris, Cr., required some catching, 
preferring the leaves of tall shrubs to flowers; but it is 
scarcely as graceful on the wing as our White Admiral. 
I took two specimens of Cutochrysops pandava, Horsf, 
var. bengalia, De Nicév. (being the dry-season form); the 
female is a dingy creature, but the male is of an iridescent 
blue, bordered with black. Hypolimnas misippus, f, 
Precis almana and P. lemonias completed the list of twenty 
species taken in four visits to the gardens. With them 
was a bee His thoracica, Fab., a 9. 
Baliganj. 
At the truly splendid museum (where, by the way, I saw 
a native artist at work producing some of the very best 
coloured figures of beetles and butterflies that I have ever 
seen), Mr. 8. E. Peal, besides helping me in other ways, 
put me on the track of one of the late Mr. De Nicéville’s 
favourite collecting-grounds, a rus in urbe, at Baliganj, a 
suburb only three miles from the hotel. I visited this 
place twice, on December 5th and 9th. It consists of a 
large deserted garden long run wild; weedy meadows and 
jungly woods are all that is left of trim lawns and ordered 
shrubberies, while a palm avenue and several tanks covered 
with a floating flower of the convolvulus order, harbouring 
countless dragon-flies, complete the tale of departed great- 
ness. Altogether it is full of sad beauty. Palms and 
crotons with an undergrowth of ferns were the char- 
acteristic plants, flowers were few, yet in certain favoured 
spots butterflies were in quite bewildering swarms. The 
quiet charm of this old garden was greatly enhanced by 
the absence of curious natives and the (comparative) absence 
