128 Dr. G. B. Longstaff’s Notes on the Butterflies 
how it could have been inflicted by an enemy without 
simultaneous injury to the fore-wings. 
This day I saw two Ornithoptera darsius, one quite out 
of reach, the other I missed badly. 
Hatton, alt, 4200 ft. 
March 16th—18th, 1904. 
In going up-country from Kandy when near Ullapdne 
station [alt. c. 2500 ft.] I caught, from the train, Nar- 
mada montana, Feld., and a little further on, c. 3000 ft., 
a male Catophaga paulina, a species that is very abundant 
in the Ceylon highlands. 
Before Hatton is reached the line enters the tea country, 
whence the glorious primeval forests have disappeared, 
having been ruthlessly and completely cleared out to make 
way first for coffee and later for tea. Though doubtless 
‘“orateful and comforting,’ the tea-plant is most un- 
picturesque, only slightly surpassing the potato in that 
quality. The Grevilleas with their light feathery foliage, 
planted in regular rows to slightly shelter the tea from 
sun and wind, do but little to relieve its stiffness, and are 
a miserable substitute for the departed woodland glories. 
About Hatton there are but scraps of the forest left on the 
tops of the highest hills, and we were told that the tea- 
planters are constantly urging the Forest Department to 
allow these to be improved away. It results that what once 
was doubtless a grand entomological locality is now a very 
poor one. 
Here for the first time I examined Catophaga paulina for 
scent, and was surprised to find that the three males tested 
had a scent nearly as strong as that of P. napi; it was 
described at the time as “like sweet-briar, but sweeter and 
more luscious,” and I wrote to Dr. Dixey the same evening, 
adding “I had no doubt whatever.” 
About the hotel garden Argynnis niphe was common, a 
male had the fore-wings notably shorter and broader than 
usual. 
A short walk in what is left of the old forest, towards 
the top of a high hill, say at about 4500 ft., produced 
several specimens of Lethe daretis, Hew., a regular sylvan 
Satyrid, repeatedly settling on the path, apparently always 
erect. Two of them have lost large portions of the hind- 
