108 Dr. G. B, Longstaff’s Notes on the Butterflies 
Catochrysops strabo, Fab., was common, also Polyommatus 
beticus, one specimen having lost two-thirds of each hind- 
wing, presumably the work of some enemy; of Zizra 
kharsandra, Moore, I took one, 
At night several moths came to light, viz. the Ocneriad, 
Enome detersa, Walk., the Geometers, Tephrinia disputaria, 
Guen., and Jdxa fibulata? Guen. (worn), and the very 
widely-distributed tiella zinckenella, Treit. 
A ferocious-looking spider, a Solpuga, shared the Dak 
Bungla with us. 
Anantipur, lat. 14° 30’ N., alt. c. 1500 ft. 
February 18th—238rd, 1904. 
This small civil station, situated on an irrigated though 
elevated plain devoted to the growing of cotton and rice, is 
typical of Southern India. 
A very hot walk to some small granite hills on the other 
side of the lake produced little beside two males of Jzias 
marianne, and a solitary Teracolus eucharis; the hills 
seemed too hot, dry, and parched to harbour butterflies. 
About the trees along the dam, or “ bandh,” were a few 
Hypolimnas misippus, males, and abundance of Papilio 
aristolochiz. 
In the cotton fields by the river Hypanis [Biblia] ilithyia, 
Dru., was to be got, but not plentifully. 
The best collecting-ground was a very weedy nursery 
garden and orchard. Here I one day had the advantage 
of the assistance of my host, Mr. Edwin Scott, LCS., 
whose keen appreciation of scents helped me greatly. 
Limnas chrysippus was abundant ; of its scent Mr. Scott’s 
first impression was “some sort of dung,” then “a zoo” ; 
later he said “ possibly like a cockroach, but more like a 
musk-rat.” The scent is, I think, general, but is perhaps 
stronger when the scent sacs on the hind-wings are opened : 
a fact that I also observed at Calcutta. 
Crastia core was common and gregarious, frequenting a 
special mango-tree. When he smelt this insect Mr. Scott 
at once cried out “acetylene,” adding that he would like 
to put a lighted match to it to see whether it would burn! 
Subsequent observations on the butterfly and the gas con- 
vinced me of the accuracy of his comparison. The genital 
organs appear to exude the scent, probably the long tufts 
appended to them, ; 
