FRAGRANT BUTTERFLIES—CLARK 429 
Three males of Jtaballia calydonia from Venezuela, all that he 
captured, were found by Mr. Longstaff to have a distinct flowery 
scent, in one described as like that of P. brassicw, in another as 
somewhat sickly. In another undetermined species, near P. sevata, 
the only male examined had a faint, sweet, flowery scent. 
In Assam Mr. Wood-Mason noted that both sexes of Delias hierte 
var. indica have a strong and grateful smell of musk. Of 18 males 
of Delias eucharis examined by Mr. Longstaff a scent was detected 
in 17. In 4 of these the scent was very slight or indefinable, but 
in 12 it was strong, or very strong, and compared by him to that 
of sweetbrier. In 6 females out of 9 there was more or less scent, 
but in no case was it strong; it was described as sweet, dusty or 
musky, and faint sweetbrier. In D. nigrina a male was thought by 
Mr. Longstaff to have a very slight scent. 
The males of Catophaga paulina in Ceylon were found by Mr. 
Longstaff to have a scent which was variously described as “ like 
sweetbrier, but sweeter and more luscious,” “sweet,” “very sweet 
(?) Freesia,” “ flowery,” “ decided meadowsweet,” “ decided Stepha- 
notis,”’ and “extremely sweet.” 
In Huphina nerissa Mr. Longstaff found that the males have a 
distinct sweetbrier scent. 
Nine males of /wias cengalensis (fig. 36, pl. 6) examined by Mr. 
Longstaff all had a sweet, but only moderately strong, scent, which 
reminded him of meadowsweet (Spirwa ulmaria). Four females 
were scentless. 
Ten African species of Z’eracolus have been examined, with the 
following results. In 7. achine Doctor Dixey found in the males 
an odor like that of honeysuckle. In 7’. ione he found the scent not 
always easy to detect, but sweet and flowery. In 7’. anne he some- 
times found the scent of the male strong, like syringa; Mr. Long- 
staff found it faint and like that of Pieris brassice. A dead male of 
T. phisadia had a sweet luscious scent, but another of 7’. halimede 
a somewhat disagreeable odor. 
- Mr. Longstaff says that the male of 7’. protomedia has a distinct 
scarcely agreeable scent hard to describe, while a female of 7’. daira 
had a scent like clove pink, both in the field and in the house. In 
LT. omphale both Doctor Dixey and Mr. Longstaff found in the males 
a “white flour perfume,” but the former usually found a musky 
constituent in addition. In 7’. auxo they both found a scent in the 
males, and in 7’. evts a sweet flowery scent. 
All of the nine males of the giant orange-tip (Zebomota australis) 
examined in Ceylon by Mr. Longstaff had a heavy sweet scent which 
was strong in most, and in all decided. It was compared to that of 
