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numbers. I only found it in the thickly wooded valleys which go down 

 to the Jhelum at a height of about 4,500 to 5,000 feet. It is a shade 

 loving butterfly and seems to spend most of its time sitting on the 

 branches of a shrub which has been kindly identified by Colonel Bamber 

 as Sarcocca iwuniformis of the Euphorbiacese (see Journ. B.N. H. S., 

 Vol. XIX, page 959). This shrub grows in great quantities along the 

 sides of the nullahs, being in some places the only undergrowth under 

 large trees. When Zephyrus ata.rus was not sitting on the above shrub 

 it was usually sitting on the shady sides of large rocks in as dark a place 

 as possible in company with Euasijci onilionia, which was also to be found 

 there in large numbers. Zephyrus ataxus was difficult to distinguish against 

 its background in the shade, but once seen was easy to capture, as it 

 would sit still with the greatest patience. One day my wife and I caught 

 seventy within a space of one or two hundred yards square. 



June 30th was the last day I went down to that valley just then, sol am 

 unable to say how long they remain out ; but I found one worn and 

 battered 5 ^^ 'the same height on 21st September after the rain had 

 stopped. 



C. W. WATNEY, Captain, 



S. and T. Corps. 



Peshawar, Zvd March 1913. 



No. XXIX.— NOTE ON ZEPHYRUS ZIHA. 



Last year (1912) I took 5 specimens of Zephyrus ziha in the Murree Hills 

 at heights of 6,000 to 5,000 feet. " Murree Hills " should therefore be added 

 to the list of localities given for this butterfly by Captain Evans in his 

 List of Indian Butterflies, Vol. XIX, p. 988. 



C. W. WATNEY, Captain, 



S, and T. Corps. 

 Peshawak, ^rd March 1918. 



No. XXX.— MIMICRY IN SILKWORM MOTHS. 



With reference to the article in the last Number of the Journal on the 

 serpent-like apices possessed by some moths — and the case of an owl's face 

 being simulated — it may be interesting to turn to a letter by E. H. Aitken 

 in Vol. XVI, No. 1 (1904), headed'" The Enemies of Butterflies." In this 

 "Eha " is speaking certainly of butterflies alone, but it seems probable that 

 the protective resemblance to a snake's head shown by the wings of some 

 of the Atlas Moths may be not so much a guard against birds as lizards. 

 A lizard will not walk into the jaws of a snake, if he can help it, and he 

 certainly will not try conclusions with an owl. I make the suggestion with 

 all reticence and stand open to correction ; but from the comparative 

 number of {a) lizards, {b) birds, found in the stomachs of snakes would one 

 not infer that for one bird scared, a good many lizards would be driven ofl". 

 And again it would be a bird of some size that would tackle an Atlas Moth 

 anyway, whereas one knows well what an extraordinary large moth or 

 insect even the little wall gecko will go for. 



C. BEADON. 



Tayoy, L. Burma, 



2lst May 1913. ___^ 



No. XXXI.- ON THE LIFE HISTORY OF 

 COPTOSOMA CRIBRARIA, FABR. 



This Pentatomid bug is one of the commonest insects found attacking 

 Dolichos lablab. It does not however confine its ravages to this plant alone 



