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NOTES ON SOME OF THE BUTTERFLIES OF 
MATHERAN. 
By J. A. Berna. 
(Read before the Bombay Natural History Society on 138th Nov. 1893.) 
The accompanying lists are published in the hope that others will add 
to the number of butterflies mentioned therein. It would be desirable 
if a complete list with the correct names of all the butterflies occurring 
on Matheran could be got together for the help of future lepidopterists. 
Many of the names given in Dr. J. Y. Smith’s book on “ Matheran Hill: 
its People, Plants, and Animals,” have of necessity undergone change, 
since further investigation of species has been made, and they now 
stand, as far as is known, corrected up to date. Some of the names I 
have been unable to trace with the limited means at my disposal. 
I spent a month at Matheran during April and May, 1892. 
This was of course about the worst time of the year for observing 
Natural History, but I was able to collect 34 species of butterflies and 
observe 10 more. I collected chiefly in the woods about Charlotte Lake, 
and, being a new-comer to the Hill (although I used to be taken up as a 
child some 30 odd years ago), I was not aware of the best spots for 
collecting. I was told, justas I was leaving, that probably the best place 
was in the depression between Hart and Panorama Points, but I was 
unable to visit this place. There is, I think, a tank there, and a nala 
which generally holds water. It is in places like this that one can 
expect to make the best captures. Most of the specimens I caught were 
worn, and though I captured several Kallima horsfieldiz, none were in fit 
condition to keep, andso I let them go. The chief thing that struck me 
about the butterflies in Matheran was the quantity of Hesnercide to be 
found almost everywhere resting on the ground in shady spots or under 
leaves. You kick them up individually in scores, but the number of 
species was very few. I made an excursion to the ‘‘ Rambagh,” and 
another tothe “ Mar-rai” or Palm grove, but was disappointed. The 
only capture worth mentioning was a Bibasis sena in the “ Mar-rai.” 
The two places just mentioned are belts of forest below the cap of the 
Hill. Another noticeable fact was the predilection that Celenorrhinus 
ambareesa had for coming into the verandas of the houses and settling 
