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Pathysa (Papilio) nomius.—Very scarce. I only saw a single male 
which I took at a puddle of dirty water. 
Zetites (Papilio) agamemnon.—Not very abundant, and difficult to 
obtain, as it flies very high and when feeding chooses the top blooms 
of the highest Lantana bushes. 
This brings to an end the list of Papilios that I obtained in 
the Bangalore district, I of course took several other species in different 
parts of India, but as Kipling says ‘“‘ that is another story.” 
Nychitona (Leptosia) xiphia.—I only saw a single male of this 
delieate little insect, although I made a careful search in the district 
where I obtained my only specimen. 
Delias eucharis. Generally scarce, only 2 or 3 seen in June when 
it was very wasted. | 
Anaphaeis mesentina.—By far the most abundant butterfly in India. 
The larve are to be found by thousands ona small thorny bush of 
which I do not know the name. I think my record for numbers was 
a branch slightly under 18 inches in length with five side shoots each 
slightly under 6 inches, which had 64 pupz attached to it. This was 
in the Punjab, where generally it is more abundant than in the South. 
In 1918 I collected many thousands of these pupz and bred a most 
variable series, the females especially ranging in colour on the under- 
side of the secondaries from a deep orange to buff and creamy white ; 
but I never had the pleasure of setting this series, as the worst enemy 
of the entomologist in India attacked the three large cigar boxes in 
_ which they were, and in less than a week they had cleared every 
butterfly out. This enemy isa very small almost transparent ant, 
which believes in the German method of attack in mass formation with 
thousands in reserve, and will absolutely ruin a box of insects in a 
few hours. The method I used finally to keep these pests away was to 
get a tray of paraffin, stand a tin in the centre of this and then place 
my box of butterflies on the top. By this method I was able to keep 
the ants away and to a lesser degree the small beetles that are also 
very destructive. This species has 8 or 4 broods per annum, but the 
larvee are never so abundant asin May. I could not find any trace of 
seasonal dimorphism, the wet season producing a form that could be 
readily matched in the dry season. 
Pieris canidia.—Local and scarce in the Bangalore district, by no 
means a well marked form and showing little variation. 
Ixias pyrene and I. marianne. —Both common and generally dis- 
tributed in bushy country; difficult to net owing to their habits of 
flying through thorny bushes. 
Catopsilia crocale, C. pyranthe and C. florella.—All three very 
abundant and much given to migration. In June, 1916, I noticed a 
migration which lasted three days and was composed mainly of 
C. pyranthe with smaller numbers of the other Catopsilia species. 
They were all travelling from east to west across an area north and 
south of not more than 14 miles; outside this belt very few were to 
be seen, during these three days many hundreds of thousands must 
have passed. So conspicuous, even to non-entomologists was the 
continuous passing of these butterflies that nearly every man in the 
camp passed some remark about them. There was a slight breeze 
blowing from the §.W. so that they were travelling practically against 
the wind. They did not stop at any blooms or even puddles of dirty 
