130 Dr. G. B. Longstaff’s Notes on the Butterflies 
mountains, The “patnas” or grassy areas are bounded 
by woods, which in their turn are fringed by somewhat 
stunted scarlet rhododendrons. At the best season it 
doubtless affords excellent collecting, but I found Mr, 
Green’s statement, that I should be unlikely to light upon 
the good localities, amply confirmed. 
I saw several Papilio teredon, Feld., flying about, and 
secured two that were drinking at wet mud. <A female 
Terias hecale proved to be of the wet-season form. Of 
Neptis varmona I took two. Ina sedgy place surrounded 
by wood, a small “patna,” I took the Skipper Baracus 
vittatus, Feld., curiously enough the only butterfly that I 
had taken in a swamp up to that date. The streaky 
markings of the under-side, following the veins, appeared 
when the insect was settled on sedge to be strongly pro- 
tective. Of Talicada nyseus I saw several, the only other 
Blue seen was the avyiolus-like Cyaniris lanka, Moore, 
much battered. 
Among moths I found one of the yellow Geometer 
Corymica specularia, Moore, at rest on a tree-trunk, and 
one Acidalud Jdaa costata, Moore. Also on Mt. Pederuta- 
lagalla, at about 8000 ft., the Skipper Baracus vittatus 
among sedgy grass and Abraxas sor dida, Hmpsn., flying at 
dusk, nearly uniformly dark fuscous, This last is 
presumably a scarce insect since the British Museum 
possesses the type only. 
Hakgdla, alt. 4800 ft. 
On March 19th and 2Ist I visited the beautifully- 
situated and well-kept Botanical Garden at Hakgala, 
some five miles south of Nuwara Eliya and at a con- 
siderably lower elevation. 
Along the road Catophaga paulina was swarming, males 
with their sweet-briar-like scent appeared to largely 
predominate. They flew rapidly and always in the 
same direction, roughly speaking from south-east to 
north-west. They frequently flew in strings, just as 
if they were tied together, and reminded me strongly 
of the strings of floating stars that are dropped by a 
certain kind of rocket; I often saw three, four or five, 
and ouce even seven, so following their leader’s every 
movement. 
At a turn of the road close by the garden there was a 
