MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 595 



January, though from October to about then it is exceedingly plentiful, C. 

 ^siatica a bird not met with in Cachar (?) however must breed here, for 

 though like the last it is most common in the cold weather it is still to be met 

 with in small numbers throughout the year. 



A, M, PRIMROSE. 



Rewa Tea Estate, 

 Chandpur Bagae, 



S. Sylhet, 3ri May 1902. 



No. N1~EUTHALIA LEPIDEA IN WESTERN KUMAON. 



Though more or less common in Burma and Assam, Sikkim has generally 

 been considered to be the most westerly limit of E. lepidea, and it may 

 tlieref ore interest the entomological members of the Society to learn of the 

 capture of a specimen of this butterfly as far west as Kumaon, A male was 

 ■taken by me on the 19th of this month (April 1902) at Ranibagh (1,000-2,000 

 ft.) on the road from Kathgodam to Naini Tal, up a heavily wooded nullah 

 with running water. I had seen one a day or two previously in the same 

 spot without being able to get near it, but was more fortunate on presuma- 

 bly the same one appearing a second time. Judging from its very fine, fresh 

 condition, it could not have been long out of the pupa, and it is not improb- 

 able was bred in the vicinity ; but I saw no others. Two gentlemen who have 

 collected round Ranibagh for years, to whom I showed my specimen, told me 

 they had never seen or heard of them before in the district, so its occur- 

 rence must be rare. 



The Kumaon specimen shows no variation from other Burma specimens 

 in my possession. 



G. W. V. de RHE-PHILIPE. 

 LucKNOW, 21th April 1902, 



No. VII.— A MAN-EATING- PANTHER. 



{With a Plate.) 



The following are a few notes with reference to a man-eating panther — 

 known to have killed over 20 people in rapid succession and all within a 

 radius of 15 miles of Gunsore village in the Seoni District. 



It was not long after my arrival at Gunsore that I came to hear of the 

 panther, so I made it my first opportunity to try and bag him, knowing he 

 was such a source of danger to the surrounding inhabitants. 



A kill was reported to me as having taken place on the 23rd of March, i. e., 

 four days before my arrival. On April the 10th another kill was reported. 

 On hearing of this I went out to ascertain as to whether it was true and 

 found the body in a mangled condition with one arm torn right-off. The 

 body was lying in a nullah within 200 yards of a village (Balwara). The 

 villagers stated that the animal must have visited them about twelve at 

 Slight and dragged away the body from just outside a house and it seems there 



