54 L. de Niceville — Second List of Butterflies. [No. 2, 



believe this lizard to be poisonous and get out of its way at once ; I was 

 also informed that if eaten they would produce insanity. The circumstance 

 of its feeding with impunity on insects that are themselves protected in 

 this way seems in favour of this theory. The contents of the stomach of 

 one I killed on purpose were, (1st), fragments of a small species of Julus ; 

 (2nd), one small carnivorous beetle ; (3rd), fragments of other Goleoptera. 

 It is very easily kept alive, feeding readily on flies, grasshoppers and 

 beetles, and all kinds of stinking bugs. These bugs and Julus have a pro- 

 tective odour, and I have found all birds reject them. 



When caught or frightened this lizard emits a short but not unmusical 

 squeak. The f acully of voice has not been observed before in the Agamidce. 

 It appears to be nocturnal in its habits, and it is only in the evening, or 

 when their holes are flooded, that they are to be seen in numbers. 



IX. — Second List of Butterflies tahen in Sihhim in Octoher, 1882, ivith 

 notes on habits, ^c, — By Lionel de Nice'ville. 



[Received 29th November ; read 6tli December, 1882.] 



In the second part of this Journal for 1881, vol. 1, p. 49, I contributed 

 a list of the Butterflies taken by me during five days collecting at different 

 elevations in Sikkim in the month of October, and enumerated 129 species. 

 This is but a very small portion of the Rhopalocerous faima to be met 

 with even in one month in the vicinity of the Station of Darjiling, as I 

 therein indicated, and as the list that follows shews. The whole of the 

 species now enumerated were not taken by myself, as I was accompanied 

 on several occasions by Mr. Otto Moller (an enthusiastic collector, who 

 has most genero^usly placed the whole of his extensive collections of Sikkim 

 Butterflies at Major Marshall's and my disposal for examination in the 

 preparation of our work on " The Butterflies of India"), and a party of 

 five Lepchas, who make what they can by catching insects and selling 

 them to visitors. These men were very glad to sell us what we wanted of 

 the specimens they caught at a pice a piece ; especially as we told them that 

 we required small species more especially, these latter, unless very bright- 

 coloured, they never take any notice of. On two different days they took 

 us to two parts of the same hill stream (" Jora"), and shewed us their 

 principal hunting grounds. These chiefly consist of open sandy spaces by 

 the side of the stream which attract vast numbers of Butterflies to settle, 

 and to suck up the moisture. In one place upon a large flattish stone 

 near the middle of the stream, the men had put some sand and kept it 



