Observed in a tour through India and Ceylon. 111 
rolling table-land with an average altitude of from 6500 ft. 
to 7500 ft. This plateau consists for the most part of 
grassy downs with here and there ,“sholas,” or thickets of 
mixed growth, very beautiful at this time of the year 
owing to the red colour of the young leaves of the pre- 
ponderant tree. Unfortunately, alike for the entomologist 
and the artist, these “ sholas”” have been largely cut down 
to make way for the extensive Government plantations 
of eucalyptus, which are by comparison dreary and 
monotonous. 
On the way up the cog-wheel railway I saw on the side 
of the cutting two beautiful blue-green Papilios, which 
may have been either P. telephus, Feld., or P. teredon, 
Feld. At about 4500 ft. I netted a Neptis varmona from 
the train in motion. 
It was evidently too early in the year to get many 
butterflies at Utakamand, the elevation making the nights 
cool, so it was necessary to seek out sheltered flowery banks 
facing south, or preferably south-east. In two such spots 
within a very circumscribed area Talicada nyseus was 
common ; a single example also occurred [along with the 
inevitable Pyramcis cardui| on the grassy top of an isolated 
and exposed peak of about 8000 ft. This Lyczenid is quite 
typical of “South India and Ceylon” ; it is a conspicuous 
insect on the wing, its tricolour of black, white and orange- 
red, which should delight German entomologists, making 
it look larger than it really is. 
Terias hecabe was rather common, but worn. A female 
Lycena bextica and several Pyramets indica were also old 
friends, and the same applies to two or three Papilio 
aristolochiz seen at flowers in the hotel garden, the latter a 
good deal the worse for wear. 
A few Yphthima chenui, Gueér,, occurred at about 7800 ft., 
the only Satyrid I met with at Utakamand. Ganoris canidia 
flew up to 8000 ft.; a male had a distinct smell like that 
of our Pieris rape. I submitted the living butterfly to 
my daughter and her lady friend, who both noticed the 
scent, though unable to describe it. When mignonette 
was suggested for comparison they both said “No”; but 
when sweet-briar was mentioned they said it was like 
that, my daughter speaking the more confidently of the 
two, 
At about 7400 ft. I took a female Catophaga paulina, and 
also a fine female of Hiposcritia narendra [Moore], quite a 
