120 Dr. G. B. Longstaff’s Notes on the Butterflies 
“dry” ]. Single specimens of the following were sent 
home: Nychitona xiphia; Papilio pammon, male; Limnas 
chrysippus, female ; Custalius rosimon and Lampides celene, 
Cr., of the form conferanda. Telchinia viole was common, 
one being of a fine red colour. 
Madura, lat. 9° 55’ N., alt. 600 ft. 
March 7th, 1904. 
This was about the least productive place that I visited. 
Limnas chrysippus was scarcely common. <A male Huphina 
nevissa gave out the sweet-briar scent quite strongly. I 
saw several J'elchinia viole upon a railway bank. Precis 
wnone was fairly common, but P. almana was commoner 
here, about the irrigation ditches bordering meadows, than 
at any place I visited; they were of the “ intermediate 
dry” form. LP. lemonias was also abundant, some of them 
being very brightly coloured. 
In a grove of young palms near the river a singular 
dragon-fly, Libellula variegata, Linn., was common; the 
tips of its wings are transparent and colourless, but the 
basal three-fifths of the primaries, and the basal five- 
sixths of the secondaries, are light-brown with a bold 
dark-brown pattern. I believe that I saw the same crea- 
ture in the Kudsia Gardens at Delhi, flying near the tops 
of trees, and then, as in the present case, took it for a 
Heliconius-like butterfly, which it greatly resembles on the 
wing. As I did not know that any butterfly of that shape 
was found in India I was greatly excited at seeing it, and 
proportionately disappointed when I at last effected its 
capture. 
This was the last place at which I collected in India. 
Ceylon, lat. 7° N. 
All the places that I visited in this beautiful island were 
within twenty miles north or south of the seventh parallel 
of latitude. The luxuriance of the vegetation was an 
immense relief after the parched plains of India. At the 
lower elevations it was more distinctly tropical than any . 
that I had yet seen, but this character was lost at greater 
altitudes. 
