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more or less symmetrical. Delias ewcharis was scarce, 
Catophaga paulina more common. In one case I saw a 
bird try to catch a specimen of the latter on the wing; 
the bird missed its quarry, but I was more successful ; it 
proved to be a male. 
The Danaids were well to the front, the commonest 
species being Parantica ceylonica; it is smaller and greyer 
than Tirumala limniace and varies considerably in size, a 
small male measuring only 2°5 in., a large female as much 
as 3'4 in. across the wings. It was curious that this 
species became quite abundant late in the afternoons, as 
other things were retiring. I was surprised to find that a 
male when fluttering in the net gave out a strong scent 
like that of Crastia core, i.e. very like acetylene. This 
was noted in two or three specimens, and was quite un- 
mistakable. Danais septentrionis, Butl., appeared to be 
rather common. A female has the hind-wings much 
broken, perhaps from the bite of a lizard, but the bre akage 
is only in part symmetrical. Limnas genutia, of which I 
took a very small one, was very scarce, and I did not see 
L. chrysippus at all. The genus Crastia was represented 
by many individuals. I took five C. asela, Moore ; of one 
ot them I noted at the time, “has a scent as in core.” 
But the most prominent group of butterflies at Kandy 
was assuredly the Papilionide ; I met with six species. The 
most remarkable was Ornithoptera darsius, Gray, peculiar, 
I believe, to Ceylon, an insect that I had greatly wanted 
to take ; it appears to be fairly common, as I saw two at 
Peradeniya, seven or eight at Kandy, and two at Haragama. 
It sails about somewhat slowly and in a dignified manner, 
looking very distinguished in its rich yellow-and-black 
livery and impressive by its size, five and a half to six inches 
expanse of wings! When it comes within reach it is not 
hard to catch, and I secured two males and a female, but it 
is a formidable- looking creature in the net, with a thorax 
suggestive of a Bomby x. Mr. Freedley told me that the 
males have a scent like sassafras, but I learned this too 
late for confirmation. The male Papilio pammon was 
common enough, one specimen was unusually small, mea- 
suring under, ‘three inches. Two specimens of P. aristo- 
lochiv (a distasteful butterfly) were brought home; one of 
them has the tips of the hind-wings up to the tails bitten 
off quite symmetrically, thus much resembling the muti- 
lated specimen of P. hector taken at Kallar. OF the tailless 
