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hind-wings, which tried, not without occasional success, 
to pass itself off as a Blue. A few hasty observations on 
this species when at rest failed to detect any such “ list ” 
as 1s common in many members of the family. 
I sent home two specimens of J/ycalesis perseus, one an 
ordinary example of the dry-season form in which the 
ocelli are indicated by faint dark dots, the other (unfortun- 
ately very tattered) in which the full complement of 
ocelli on the under-surface is indicated by conspicuous 
chalky-white spots of varying sizes, to wit, two large and 
one small on the primaries and two large and five sinall 
on the secondaries. Three of these spots are faintly 
visible on the upper-surface. ‘There are no rings and no 
pupils to the spots. It would appear to be a unique 
aberration of the dry-season form. In the shade along 
with the above Satyrids was the inevitable Nychitona 
xiphia and a solitary male Elymnias undularis. 
A weedy neglected field near the river yielded besides 
Limnas chrysippus and Atella phalanta plenty of the 
“orange-tip” Jxias marianne, as well as a smaller number 
of the more gaudy Jxias pyrene. One proved to be a worn 
specimen of the female lacking the orange tip, a distinct 
and well-marked variety ; another was of the racial form 
cingalensis, Moore. The “whites” Huphina nerissa and 
Catophaga paulina were in plenty. <A single Catopsilia 
pomona was netted, a somewhat papery-looking insect, 
especially on the under-side, also several C. pyranthe of the 
“transitional Gnoma” form. In one of the latter (a male) 
I detected a faint scent, but less like that of jasmine than 
in the Catopsilias examined at Anantapur. In the same 
field Telchinia viole was abundant, while Hrgolis ariadne 
was, as usual, common among ficinus. 
But all this time Solomon was most anxious to get me 
down to the river. This is a rapidly-flowing stream, 
occupying perhaps half its bed, and having on either bank 
sloping woods of mixed growth. Solomon sought out a 
place where a tiny tributary emerging from a rushy swamp 
trickled over the damp sand. He forthwith stuck into 
the wet sand a foot or so from the rill and well clear of the 
herbage, three or four large butterflies of which he had 
netted worn or broken specimens; then he stood by to 
watch. Nothing much happened, for unfortunately clouds 
had come up and the afternoon was only partly sunny, 
whereas to get many things at water, whether decoys be 
