102. Dr. G. B. Longstaff’s Notes on the Butterflies 
than ten species, some of them represented by numerous 
individuals. 
Buddha Gaya, lat. 24° 42’ N., alt. c. 500 ft. 
December 30th and 31st, 1903. 
The vicinity of the shrine and its sacred Bo tree was not 
productive. All the butterflies that I saw there were one 
Terias libythea, a number of Huphina nerissa (the male 
yielding a distinct, but not strong, flowery scent), together 
with a lot of the Lycenid Zizera karsandra, Moore. 
The next day, on a steep hill of red trap rock overlook- 
ing the town, I saw for the first time the Acreeid T'elchinia 
violz, reminding one on the wing of Argynnis ewphrosyne ; 
it was locally abundant and gregarious, its tone of colour- 
ing harmonizing with the red igneous rock. On the same 
hill were two or three Precis wnone and several small 
P. orithyia, while Zizera otis, Fab., was abundant. 
In the course of this walk I noticed a Fakir, or religious 
mendicant ascetic, watching my operations with evident 
suspicion, probably owing to the reverence in which some 
of these folk hold all animal life. Presently a small native 
boy threw a stone at a squirrel. I thought better of the 
Fakir when he cursed the boy so fiercely that he fled in 
terror as fast as the squirrel, while I rolled up my 
umbrella-net and passed on, trying to elude observation ! 
Mozufferpur, lat. 28° 8’ N., alt. c. 300 ft. 
On a flying visit, January 2nd, 1904, to this place, nearly 
north of Bankapur, I took in my host’s garden two Zizera 
otis, Fab., and one Zizera maha, Koll. 
Allahabad, lat. 25° 30’ N., alt. 370 ft. 
Here on January 4th I saw a few of the very commonest 
Indian butterflies in the public garden. The railway 
carriage before leaving in the evening produced a grass- 
hopper, Atractomorpha (Perena) sp., and Prodenia littoralis, 
a Noctua that came to light. This last proved tenacious 
of life, it laid a number of eggs in its paper which batched 
on the voyage, the young larve perishing miserably. 
