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to shoot them, but of course I refused, for there could be no sport in 

 murdering such confiding creatures, and I was never short of meat on 

 those occasions. Had I been short I might perhaps have been 

 tempted, for a plump young Pea-hen is said to be good eating. 



The Pea-fowl come on to the stubbles or other feeding grounds 

 morning and evening, retiring to the shade of high crops or bushes 

 during the heat of the day. They roost at night in some big tree 

 close to, or even inside a village, and I have occasionally seen them 

 roosting on the huts. They breed towards the close of the hot weather 

 or during the rains, and at that time even in Gujerat a few cocks fall 

 victims to the gun of the Saheb, for the sake of their skins, which are 

 magnificent, the long train sometimes measuring (according to Dr. 

 Jerdow) 4^-feet and even more. They are very noisy when going up 

 to roost, in fact almost as noisy as cock pheasants, repeating again 

 and again the harsh cry which is so familiar to us all even in this 

 country. 



(to be continued). 



THE PTEROPHORINA OF BRITAIN, 

 By J. W. Tutt, F.E.S. 



Continued from page 225, Vol. X. 



P. ochrodactyla, Hb. This is the dichrodactylus of Miichlig, and 

 British authors. It is not mentioned in Stainton's Manual, the 

 ochrodactylus of the Manuel, being the next species, Bertrami. 



Synonymy. — Oehrodactyla, Hub., Figs. 12, 13; Treit. IX., 2. 227; 

 Dup. XL, 313,2; Zell., <lsis' (1841), 775, Lin. Ent. Zeit. VI., 327; 

 H-S., 3, V., p. 367. Dichrodactylus, Muhlig, Stettin ent. Zeitung (1863), 

 213. 



Imago. — The type of this species is represented by Hiibner in his 

 ' Schmetterlinge ' &c, figs. 12 and 13, of which the following are 

 descriptions :— Figure 12 is a male, with the anterior wings pointed, of 

 a rather deep yellow ground colour with a reddish shade extend- 

 ing from the costa (about \ from the apex) to the internal edge of the 

 cleft of the anterior wings, the internal edge of shade gradually ton- 

 ing down towards the centre of the wing, the inner part of the wing 

 slightly shaded with reddish. The hind wings yellow ochreous. The 

 head, thorax, and body the same colour as the wings. Figure 13 is 

 a female, with the apex more pointed, the ground colour paler yellow, 



