MISCELLANEO US XO TES. 1 7 7 



September 1919. I believe this to be a record as regards tLe size of the 

 tish caught spinning, though I know much larger ones have been caught on 

 meat and " atta ". 



The fash is a species of Barbel, but 1 should like to know its correct name. 

 Head Quarters, 17th Divisiok, F. B. LANE Major. 



Mesopotamia, 

 1st November 1919. 



[Photos of large Carp from Mesopotamia appeared in our Journal, 

 Vol. XXVI, No. 2, p. 679. The name of the fish is Barbus sezc/?— Eds.]. 



No. XXII.— A NEW HAWK MOTH. 



When on leave in Mussoorie in 1918, I found eggs of a Hawk moth, 

 and young larvae. Being suddenly ordered away, I only obtained two 

 moths, one of which was later smashed uj) in the post. The last one 

 reached home safely, and proves to be a new species. 



If any member who is visiting Mussoorie or other stations close by 

 during the rains would care to help, I will let him know where he can get 

 eggs and larvae. The British Natural History Museum would like a series 

 of moths, and incidentally he could get some for himself and the Society. 

 The larvte are easy to rear, or if eggs were sent to me I would rear them. 



F. B. SCOTT, Major, i.a. 

 Ferndale, Shillong, 



2nd March 1920. 



No. XXIII.- STRANGE FIND OF THE LARVA OF THE BUTTERFLY 

 {TEINOPALPAS IMPERIALIS). 

 I was riding up to Sukia, elevation 6,050 feet, when upon the road I 

 chanced to see this fine Caterpillar almost under my pony's foot. I 

 at once jumped off my pony and secured this unknown specimen, un- 

 known then to me, as I had often wished to get this larva of this fine 

 Butterfly, but without success from the Lepcha collectors. What the 

 Caterpillar was doing on the road puzzled me but alongside was a big Oak 

 tree and I had been told the larva of this insect fed on the Oak so it 

 may have fallen down after being attacked by some enemy bird or 

 lizard. I was also aware the larva fed on Daphne nepalensis, a large 

 shrub, the bark used by the Nepalese to make a coarse paper, the wood 

 sweet scented. Close at hand, as I expected at this elevation, I looked for 

 several shrubs and found Daphne papyracea or Wallichia (Chota Aryili, Nepa- 

 lese) and it may have been the Caterpillar was making for one of these. 

 Anyhow the larva looked fairly full grown. Plucking the leaves of the 

 Oak and '• Daphne" 1 put the insect into a fairly big bocc with plenty of air 

 holes. The Caterpillar was green with a large thick head, Papilio-shaped, 

 the tail was certainly aggressive when I took hold of it from the ground 

 which made me think I had got some Spingidse larva yet new to me. On 

 my ret rn home from Darjeeling 2 days after I was exceedingly pleased 

 to find che Caterpillar had turned into a soft pupa, a shape new to me, oval 

 greenish with a strange horn, this was enough to show me that it was no 

 " Sphingidae" larva. The date of turning would be the end of Septem- 

 ber 1918. The perfect Butterfly did not come out until the following 

 April 1919. 7 months in the pupa state. Whether this insect is second 

 brooded is diflicult to say, but I am inclined to think it is. Senchal is 

 the favourite hunting ground, catches are mostly made in August and end 

 of July by Lepcha collectors. 

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