250 MR. H. J. ELWES ON BUTTERFLIES FROM [Apr. 21, 



where I have often mistaken the butterfly for the cicada, and vice 

 versa, though after deatli the cicada faded, so that the resemblance 

 is hard to see. I also send Zeuxidia masoiii ; the fragrance of the 

 male is peculiar but very sweet. I have been unlucky with 

 Cyrestis nivalis, of wliich I have seen half a dozen. From its extreme 

 timidity I think one can see that it is at the limit of its range, 

 and just maintains itself. In the Apaturidse I got very little of 

 interest. The Stibocldona seems new. It was very rare and confined 

 to the summit at from 4000 to 4500 feet. If you describe it please 

 mention the hairy eyes of this genus ; this is its most remarkable 

 feature and not mentioned by Westwood. 



"A fine pair of Pro</iot;'ca/(?rfo«2a are perhaps the best things I got, 

 no others were seen, but FrotJio'd angelica was more common and was 

 taken on the body of a dead Python. It is very fragrant in both 

 sexes. There are several Charaxes of the polyxena group, the names 

 of which I do not pretend to know ; also C. durnfordi, of which I am 

 very proud ; it is very hard to catch, even more difficult tban 

 Prothoe Caledonia. I have noticed enough facts to be confident that 

 timidity is a source of protection. In the Eastern Ghats, where Neptis 

 nandina is rare, I could always tell it from N. varmona a hundred 

 yards off, because it flew away ; but then varmona is like hordonia, 

 a protected species. All the Charaxes in the Malayan region are 

 hard to catch, as poor Kunstler used to insist ; but there is nothing 

 more helpless than most Charaxes in the Indo-Burmese region. 

 They fly so straight that you can take them on the wing nine times 

 out of ten ; they persistently return to the same spot and love to 

 light on projecting twigs, where you can easily get them by a stroke 

 of the net from below. But that is not the case in the Malayan 

 regions ; I do not know how many hours I spent in the interior of 

 Sumba trying to catch a huge undescribed Charaxes of the pyrrhus 

 group ; and the polyxena group never seem common down there as 

 in India. 



'■' I send many males of Neurosigma doubledayi. It seems to me 

 distinct from the Sikkim form, of which I took dozens in the 

 Chittagong hill-tracts, all black and fulvous above. All the Athymas 

 sent are from the high country above 4000 feet. I do not know 

 why." 



Mr. Doherty then gives a lot of notes about various Lycaenidse, 

 which will be inserted in their places, and shortly afterwards left for 

 the Ruby-Mine district north of Mandalay, whence he wrote from 

 the Injok valley near Bernardmyo, on May 25th, as follows : — 



" I have been at Bernardmyo at 5400 feet, and here in a hut at 

 Injok since May 2nd ; we had rather an absurd journey. At Thabeit 

 kyin on the Irawadi river the country was wholly parched up, not 

 a green leaf for miles, and the grass on fire everywhere. From there 

 the road goes to Mogouk nearly 70 miles. Transport had broken 

 down, but I managed to borrow two carts, for two of my Lepchas 

 were sick and could not walk, and hired two pair of bullocks at 35 

 rupees each. They broke down at a desolate place 12 miles out, 

 where I had to stay two days. Tlien, luckily for me, General 



