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Here the other two riders were able to cut in and help to finish him off. He was 

 too exhausted to make any resistance Ijejond biting at the spear, and was quite 

 rigid within a minute of death. The pace throughout was very fast : it is needless 

 to add that condition in the horses is an absolute essential for such a ride. Two 

 of us were on Walers j the third man, on an Arab, was nevertheless up before the 

 wolf was dead. 



The next morning our camp was joined by the sportin»Thakore of the district, 

 with half a dozen of his followers; and going out again in the same country we 

 found a couple of wolves almost at once close to the sea-shore. In trying to get 

 on the inside of them, so as to drive them inland, w^e let them get too far away, 

 and by the time we were riding in earnest they had a start of half a mile. This 

 mistake cost us a great deal. A long stern chase followed; the wolves took a 

 course parallel to the sea, and after a mile or so, separated, one crossing a salt- 

 water creek and over some low cliffs down to the sea-beach, the other keeping 

 on some way inland. Both were followed, but tlie long run-uj) had tired the 

 horses, and after five or six miles more of it they were getting beaten. The wolf, 

 which had run along the beach, now turned inland and crossed another creek, 

 where the two riders who had followed him, but had never got on terms with him, 

 pirlled up in despair. Here, however, some of the rest of the party, who had 

 followed the other wolf and lost him also, came up, and we determined to try to 

 pick up one of them again and ride him in concert. Spreading out into a long 

 line we worked inland, and a mile further on picked up one of the wolves. Then 

 another long ride began, for the horses had not enough left in them to gallop 

 him down, and he had to be gi-adually tired out, one man after another taking up 

 the riding. He was beaten at last and speared, after a run of fourteen or fifteen 

 miles aUogether. The horses were very much done, the Walers more so than the 

 Arabs ; a 13-3 Arab pony with a light weight went from beginning to end and was 

 the least distressed, while one of the Walers fell during the run from exhaustion. 

 Our experience showed that a wolf may be ridden comparatively slowly and tired 

 out, as is done with black buck; but I doubt whether a single horse could accom- 

 plish it in this way. 



Majkot. C. W. WADDINGTON. 



No. XV.— NEW SUMATEAN BUTTEEFLIES. 



1. DANAIS (Caduga) TYTIOIDES. 



Differs in both, sexes from D. tytia, Gray, but more especially in the male, 

 in both wings being narrower, the male has the outer margin of the forewing 

 deeply excavated, the outer margin of the bind wing cut off, in both sexes the 

 anterior half of the discoidal cell of the forewing is black, and in both sexes 

 the hindwing on both sides is of a much, duller-red colour. 



2. EUPLCEA (Narmada) MARTINII. 



Male, upperside, both wings deep velvety black. Forewing with a marginal 



