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for I took my first Hypolimnas bolina, three males and a female, 
believing them at the time to be two species. Why does not this 
glorious insect retain its far more poetical and more appropriate name, 
Biadcma jacintha ? Surely a black butterfly 3 \ inches in expanse 
with four large glancing-blue spots, one on either wing, deserves to 
be called after a gem. Anyway, I shall never forget the impression 
produced by my first sight of its truly oriental splendour; it was 
like Kingsley’s “ At last! ” 
On my way down I also saw Pyrameis indica, and missed two 
Papilios, probably P. machaon. 
Two Buddhist Pilgrims in yellow robes, shading their shaved 
heads by an umbrella, brought Kim vividly to mind, while that 
common sight in India, a man carrying a bed upon his head, 
explained and illustrated a familiar text. 
At Kalka I got nearly two hours’ collecting late in the after¬ 
noon ; it was partly on waste ground about the station, but mainly 
in a field bearing a crop of some kind of pulse with thin pods 4-5 
inches long. 
A black and brown Cantharid beetle, Mylabris sidac, Fabr., was 
flying about flowers in the sunshine in large numbers. The genus 
Precis was represented by orithyia and oenone; the genus Terias by 
hecabe, laeta, and quite a number of libythea . The inevitable Atella 
phalantha, never very common, and Belenois mesentina were to the 
front again. Ganoris canidia was fairly common; I noted that a male 
had a “ snuffy scent.” Single specimens of Ixias marianne, Cram., 
and Huphina nerissa, both males, were taken. Of Catopsilia pyranthe 
I took two females, one of which had suffered a symmetrical injury 
to both hind wings. Three or four Hypolimnas bolina , both sexes, 
were disturbed in their first sleep, and being drowsy fell an easy 
prey. The Blues were represented by several species— Zizera mafia, 
Z. otis , Fabr., var. indica, Murray; Catochrysops cnejus, Fabr; and 
Nacaduba ardates, Moore. Two Pyrales, Zinckenia fascialis, Cram. 
(recurvalis , Fabr.), and Bradina admixtalis, Walk., and a worn 
Acidaliid were picked up. A Sphinx, Nephele hespera, Fabr., was 
taken during the afternoon at the flowers of a Bryonia. A little 
later on, a Lymantriid moth, Euproctis lunata, Walk., came to the 
lamp of the railway carriage, to which a Sphinx, probably another 
N. hespera , also paid a momentary visit. 
