132. Dr. G. B. Longstaff’s Notes on the Butterflies 
composite. On the patnas and among sedges in the woods 
were « few of the Skipper Daracus vittatus, they were not 
easy to see. I was surprised to come across no other 
butterflies on these patnas, which seemed the very 
place for such a Fritillary as JZ. aurinia, Rott., or such a 
Satyrid as C. pamphilus, L., or at least for a Blue, but 
no, even the eponymous NVyssanga patnia was not to be 
found. 
In the woods I took two specimens of the beautiful 
Lethe darctis, Hew., and saw two or three others. They 
frequented shady paths and flew but a short distance, 
settling upon a trunk or branch, reminding me strongly 
of P. xgeria in my own garden at Mortehoe. The 
only Argynnis seen here (or indeed in Ceylon) was 
A, niphe; it was rather common in open spots in woods, 
the female looking on the wing very like Jimnas 
chrysippus; a specimen taken, a female, had the apices 
of both hind-wings and the anal angle of both fore-wings 
symmetrically bitten. 
Of Terias hecabe | found a few in a wood, of the 
intermediate dry form. Neptis varmona was not uncommon 
in the woods, as usual flying in a ghostly manner, and 
usually settling upon leaves of trees. In the same woods 
Cyaniris lanka, Moore, was common, but it was astonishing 
to see so few insects in such a locality. 
Haputdle, alt. 4500 ft. 
March 23rd, 1904. 
At this beautifully-situated Rest-house, overlooking the 
plain and the old Boer prisoners’ camp, a great many 
moths came to light. 
Owing to its large numbers the most prominent of these 
visitors was the small Noctuid, Ploteia frontalis, Walk., an 
extraordinarily variable species; another Noctuid was 
Cosmophila xanthindyma, Boisd.; there were two Deltoids, 
Olybama lentalis, Guen., and Rivula basalis, Hmpsn.; the 
Lymantriad Dasychira inclusa, Walk., and the extremely 
widely-distributed Plemyria fluviata, Hiibn. 
The formidable-looking beetle, Yy/otrupes gideon, L., was 
an uninvited visitor to my bath-room. 
On the same day an Acidaliid, /dxa costat:, Moore, flew 
into my face in a tunnel near Ohiya station, alt. 5000 ft. 
