230 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XVII. 



No. IV. -OCCURRENCE OF THE BUTTERFLY TALICADA 

 NYSEUS, GUERIN, AT KH AND A LA— WESTERN GHATS. 



As Mr. Aitken, in a previous number of this Journal (Vol. I, p. 218), has 

 remarked on the absence of this insect from Khandala and Matheran, it may 

 interest members to know that I took several in Khandala at the end of 

 October. I am not aware whether the species has been recorded from 

 Khandala since Mr. Aitken wrote his note, but from what I saw of the species, 

 I can well understand its havirig escaped notice. The insects are apparently 

 never seen abroad during the day ; and I only came across them quite acci- 

 dentally towards dusk, one evening when out for a walk, when I saw a small 

 swarm of them fluttering round and settling on a patch of a scented weed 

 which grows commonly near the bazaar. Being without my net, I could not 

 capture any at the time ; so next day I made a point of visiting the spot again. 

 There were none about either in the morning or during the day ; but at 

 sunset there were a few there again. I saw none anywhere except at this 

 one particular corner, but I daresay further search at about the same time of 

 day would bring to light other resorts of this very curiously distributed insect. 



G. W. V. de RHE-PHILIPE. 



October 'dlst, 1905. 



[There is no doubt that Everes (or Talicada) nyseus is to be found generally 

 in the Konkan, and Mr. Comber recorded it from both Khandala and Matheran 

 in his List of Konkan Butterflies in Vol. XV of our Journal. 



It is well under the circumstances, as Mr. Aitken has been quoted by others, 

 that the supposed limitation to its distribution should be proved to be unreal. 

 Mr. P. M. D. Sanderson has shown me specimens captured at Matheran also. 



L. C. H. Young, 

 Hon. Sec, Entom. Seen., 

 Bombay Natural History Society .] 



No. V— MEASUREMENTS OF BUFFALO (BOS BUB ALUS) HORNS. 

 While at home in Scotland I saw in a house I was staying in (Taymouth 

 Castle, Perthshire) an Indian buffalo (Bos bubalus) head. It appeared to me to 

 be a very large bull, and, so far as I could ascertain from my host, it had been 

 shot in Tndia 80 or 100 years ago by one of his ancestors. 



Length of right horn 59" 



„ left , 58" 



Outside sweep of horns across forehead lBl^" 



Circumference of base 20" 



Between tips 57|" 



Breadth between horns 1 ft. from tip, inside measurement 



( ? widest inside) 59" 



According to Rowland Ward's " Horn Measurements," the above is not a 

 record head, but it apparently comes third, both the others being in the British 



Museum. 



A. F. MACKENZIE, Major, 

 Poona, 2Qth October 1905. 93rd Highlanders. 



