106 Dr. G. B. Longstaft’s Notes on the Butterflies 
Limnas chrysippus seemed to bear evidence of the prolonged 
drought. The genus Papilio was represented by aristolo- 
chiv, and the Chrysid Stilhbwm splendidum, Fab., did its 
best to gratify the Rajputs’ love of brilliant colour, 
' Ajmir, lat. 26° 30’ N., alt. c. 1800 ft. 
February 4th and 5th, 1904. 
The most notable capture here was Teracolus fausta, 
Oliv., of which I only got one male, a poor specimen, 
missing two others; it has a very distinct orange look on 
the wing, and I feel sure that I saw one on January 22nd 
at Palipahari, the artillery camp near Jhansi. 
Of 7. etrida I took two males, one of them had lost the 
apex of the left fore-wing and all its hind-margin, as well 
as the apex of the left hind-wing. This is notable as 
possibly being an attack on a “direction mark.” 
I saw several battered Precis wnone. The smaller fry 
were represented by a very neat little chequered Skipper, 
Hesperia gulba, Fab. The emerald-like Stilbum splendidum 
again turned up. 
On Taragarh, the precipitous hill that overtops the city 
by perhaps 500 ft., I got only Belenois mesentina, Terias 
leta, and the long-waisted 2 wasp, Humenes dimidiatipennis, 
Sauss. 
Mt. Abu, lat. 24° 30’ N., alt. of civil and military 
station c. 4100 ft. 
February 6th—8th, 1904. 
Insects were extremely scarce upon the sacred Jaina 
mountain. The commonest butterfly was Zerias leta; it 
was abundant up to 4500 ft., and the only representative 
of the genus seen. These, together with Belenois mesentina, 
Huphina nerissa, a few Precis lemonias, and a couple of 
tages-like Skippers (which I missed upon rocks at about 
4400 ft), were the only butterflies that I saw on the 
elevated plateau. One moth, the very widely-distributed 
Crambus, Lromene ocellea, Haw., came to light. 
At lower, elevations, on the fine road up from the plain, 
the following were met with: at about 3000 ft., Belenors 
mesentina, Taracus telicanus, and Polyommatus beticus, the 
last. as usual in poor condition. From 3500 ft. down to 
