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tuberculatus), and aftera careful stalk managed to bring it down. 
While H. went off after the hawk, I wandered in among the bushes © 
and undergrowth, keeping a sharp look-out for any good butterfly 
or Hymenoptera. Butterflies were plentiful enough, but all of 
common species. Fitting up suddenly and after a short jerky flight, 
dropping close to the roots of some thick bush and becoming perfectly 
invisible until put up again, were dozens of Melanitis zsmene, M. aswa, 
and M. zitenius ; I caught specimens of all three in a couple of minutes. 
Here were two or three Mycalesis mineus going with steadier flight and 
settling higher up on the leaves of the bushes, while Terias, Ypthima, 
and the delicate weak-flighted Leptosia xiphia were all to the fore. 
Suddenly I sawa flash of blue, and a little bright Arhopala went 
with a thump on to the underside of a leaf of a Yendike bush 
(Dalbergia cultrata). A careful sweep of the net, and it is caught and 
proves to be Acesina aberrans, de Nicéville, an Arhopala pure and simple, 
but with rather unusual markings on the underside of the wings. The 
bushes grew thick, and tramping about among them I disturb insects of 
all kinds, among them a rather lively solitary wasp (Eumenes arcuata), 
which gives me a good deal of trouble to get into the cyanide bottle. 
By the time H. has recovered his bird and returned to the road, I have 
at least a dozen butterflies in papers and three or four Hymenoptera 
in the killing-bottle; and so it goes on, H. helping me with my 
insect-collecting, while keeping a look-out for birds for himself, until 
we get within a mile or so of Kawkareik ; then we get into the cart 
and rattle in in time for a bath, and get dinner later on when our 
servants and bageage turn up. 
We stopped a day at Kawkareik, and the next morning started for the 
Thaungyin valley. Carts had here to be abandoned and elephants taken 
on. The next day what with getting our baggage straight and loading 
the elephants, we did not get off till after 8 o’clock. The march was going 
to be a short one, only to a camp at the foot of the hills, some five or six 
miles off ; so our late start did not matter. Passing through the village, 
which is long and straggling, we did not get into any collecting ground 
until we had got clear of the Shan hamlet of Tadanku, which joins on to — 
the east end of Kawkareik village. The morning was bright and the 
sun already beginning to feel hot, so that we were glad to get past all 
