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wings near the anal angle, one symmetrically and in a way 
to suggest the bite of a lizard. On the under-surface of 
this butterfly the unusually large light-coloured scales on 
a black ground near the hind margin of the hind-wings 
are striking. . In the same scrap of forest I took a single 
specimen of another species of the same genus, L. drypetes, 
Hew. [ =embolina, Butl.]; also settled on a leaf of a tree 
far from the ground, as is usual with the genus, a Limenitis 
calidasa, Moore. Several Atella phalanta, a few Neptis 
varmona and Terias hecabe were also seen, a female of the 
last-named being of the “ completely wet” form. 
A specimen of Cyaniris singalensis, Feld., is very like our 
argiolus, With some difficulty I secured a specimen of the 
Jarge black-and-white Skipper, Celenorrhinus spilothrys, 
Feld. This is the second Skipper [the other being Caprona 
ransonnettit, Feld., at Kallar] that I have seen settle on the 
under-side of a leaf during full sunshine, the wings being 
expanded like a Geometer’s. Another specimen was 
settled on a rock with its wings expanded in like manner. 
Tn the hotel I found a fine Burnet (Syntomid) Huchromia 
polymena, Linn., at rest on a wall, it has slender black 
wings bearing orange spots, the body is blue, ringed and 
collared with scarlet; and in my bedroom took a beautiful 
little Tortrix-like Noctua, Metachrostis incondita, Butl., 
measuring only 17 mm. across the wings; also a most 
formidable-looking long-waisted wasp, Humenes petiolata, 
F., a 2, and Pomasia psylaria, Guén., a pretty little yellow 
Geometer with metallic markings, evidently attracted by 
light. 
When coming down from Adam’s Peak on March 18th, 
at the height of about 6000 ft., I saw several of the 
Lithosiid, Asura unifcrmis, Hmpsn., but in the rough 
scramble of the descent could only secure one; at about 
4800 ft. were several Talicada nyseus, and a few hundred 
feet lower down I bottled two green beetles, somewhat 
resembling our Rose-beetles, but much more shiny, 
Coryphocera elegans, Fab. 
Nuwara Hivya, alt. 6200 ft. 
March 18th—2Ist, 1904. 
This Sanitarium is in some respects like Utakamund, it 
is situated on a grassy plain forming a basin among 
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