Observed in a tour through India and Ceylon, 105 
insect was fluttering in the net. Of Catopsilia pyranthe I 
took a female of the gnoma form; of Terias hecabe a male, 
the variety without the “dog’s head” mark. 7. /wta was 
quite abundant. Two specimens of Huphina nerissa were 
taken, one worn, the other a dwarf. The male of Belenois 
mesentinad was common, in two specimens I detected a 
sweet scent like that of P. vapx, but more or less faint. A 
Polyommatus beticus completes the list. 
Agra, lat. 27° N., alt. 550 ft. 
January 25th and 26th, 1904, 
At the sight-seeing centre of India there was but little 
time or opportunity for entomology. In the fair gardens 
of the Taj Mahal Limnas chrysippus was abundant, three 
or four Papilio aristolochiw haunted the brilliant orange- 
coloured flowers of Bignonia venusta, and a few Lelenois 
mesentina were flying around. In the Government garden 
close by I also saw the Selenois, together with Huphina 
nerissa, Precis orithyia, and P. lemonias, Limnas chrysippus, 
and ZL. genutia, also a Teracolus, and some Blues which 
escaped capture. 
Fathipur Sikri. 
January 28th and 29th, 1904. 
At the abandoned capital of Akbar the Great, the 
Pompeii of India, some twenty-two miles west of Agra, 
those ruin-frequenting butterflies, Belenois mesentina and 
Teracolus etrida, were both common, but all appeared to be 
males. The Belenois had a faint, sweet, flowery scent, 
which did not appear to me to be quite like that of any 
other insect. 
T also took one Teracolus puellaris, a female, and a most 
ferocious hornet, Hwmenes dimidiatipennis, Sauss., a &. 
Jéipur, lat. 27° N., alt. 1600 ft. 
February 2nd, 1904. 
The fine public gardens of the enlightened Maharajah 
are too well kept to be a good collecting-ground. Zerias 
leta was however to be had there [as well as at the 
deserted capital Ambér, a few miles to the north and on 
higher ground]; those taken were males; a very small 
