MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 553 
species, and not a seasonal form either of C. annada, Moore, of C. hybrida, 
Butler, or of C. scanda, Kollar. 
Mrs. 8. ROBSON. 
BANKIPORE, 7th February, 1894. 
4 
Note By Mr. pe NICEVILLE, 
Mrs, Robson is to be congratulated on her discovery for the first time of the 
egg, larva, and pupa of a species of Callerebia. Until now no one had succeeded 
in doing so. From her account of the life-history of C. nirmala, it is evident 
that, like nearly all the temperate species of Satyrine, the species of Callerebia 
occurring in the Himalayas are only single-brooded ; so with them there can be 
no question of seasonal forms. It is further obvious that they hybernate in 
the larva state, as, but for the fact that Mrs. Robson brought her living larve 
in the autumn from the cold Himalayas to the hot plains and thus forced them 
to premature perfection, there is no doubt that the butterflies, instead of 
emerging from the pupa in February, would have done so in June, thus com- 
pleting the full cycle of a year, the larve in a state of nature attaining their 
full size and pupating in the spring after the winter hybernation. 
No. IV.—PSAMUMOPHIS LONGIFRONS. 
On page 406 of Vol. VII of our journal there is an interesting account of a 
fine specimen of the above secured by Father Dreckmann, I am glad to be 
able to present the society with a specimen new to the collection, The snake 
was caught by myself in the Umargaon Taluka of Thanna, a few miles from 
the coast and from the Damanganga River, in April, 1891. It was found in 
grass on a dry and rocky little hill, and tried to escape by taking refuge in 
the ground. It was very agile, and nearly succeeded. Father Dreckmann has 
the credit of discovering the arboreal habits of this snake, but it is probably 
as much at home on the ground. More information is needed, but in any 
case it is most interesting that a snake of so desert a type as Psammophis 
should be found in forest trees in the moist climate of Kalyan. 
F, GLEADOW. 
Poona, February, 1894. 
No. V.—THE FLAMINGO BREEDING IN INDIA. 
I send you a letter which I received some time ago from the Rao 
Sahib of Cutch together with several eggs of the Flamingo (Phenicopterus 
antiquorum). 
BHUJ, 5th October, 1893. 
My DEAR Mr, LESTER, 
Thave caused a letter to be sent to Khadir to inquire the name of the spot where the 
Flamingo’s eggs were found and shall let you know when an answer is received. In the 
meantime I have looked up the letter which came with the eggs sent last year by the official 
at Khadir, This letter is dated 28rd October, and I received with it about 20 eggs and two 
recently hatched flamingoes, The eggs were easy to blow, as the young ones were not 
formed inside, From this it seems safe to conclude that the flamingoes lay in September and 
