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Lahore also that I first came across another very common Indian 
butterfly, Papilio pammon, Linn.; its graceful form and flight and 
rich velvety-black coat at first excited me so much that I had great 
difficulty in catching it. 1 Naturally enough I followed Linnaeus in 
taking the sexes for different species: he called the male pammon, 
and the very different female polytes. At Lahore it especially 
affected the flowers of Bougainvillea speciosa and a shrub with 
blossoms similar in colour and scent to, but much larger than, those 
of White Jasmine. Like P. demoleus it flew rapidly from flower to 
flower and fluttered while feeding. The female taken here was of 
Wallace’s Form II. ( polytes); among the males was a sombre variety 
with scarcely any orange on the under-side of the hind-wings. 
Danaicla chrysippus was abundant, more especially at the flowers 
of Asclepias (the food-plant); amongst them was a dwarf female. 
Tirumala limniace was scarcely common. 
Of the Brimstone-like Catopsilia pomona , Fabr., I only netted 
one female, but believe I saw others; it visits flowers high up on 
trees. C. pyranthe was abundant; it flies fast and high and is hard 
to catch; it was fond of settling on the flowers of Duranta plumieri , 
Jacq. on the tops of high hedges, forming a pretty contrast with the 
lilac-blue racemes. This is one of the many plants belonging to the 
Natural Order Verbenaceae which I have noticed to be especially 
attractive to insects. 
Terias hecabe , both sexes, was fairly common ; it flew slowly and 
near the ground. The black and white Teracolus puellaris, Butl., 
was also fairly common; perhaps it owes its name to the child-like 
simplicity of its dress. It flies near the ground, but so jerkily as to 
be somewhat hard to catch, and, moreover, has the habit of flying 
into bushes, by preference those well provided with thorns, and not 
coming out again. Of the dainty T. protractus, Butl., I could only 
get two specimens; its salmon-pink colour with broad black margins 
dusted with blue-grey make it one of the most beautiful little 
butterflies that I came across; its dress is all in exquisite taste, the 
under-side being a quiet greenish-yellow that must greatly protect it 
when at rest. [See Plate L, Fig. 3.] 
White butterflies were not much in evidence; I took a somewhat 
worn female of Appias libythea, Fabr., also two Belenois mesentina, 
both females. This last is another common Indian butterfly; its 
upper surface reminds one of P. daplidice , Linn., but the underside 
of the hind-wings and tips of the fore-wings are bright orange with 
1 See, however, Chapter X., § 7, for my subsequent experience of the swift flight 
of this butterfly. 
