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brownish veins. Experience at Lahore confirmed me in the opinion 
that Whites of all sorts are most difficult to catch; they are shy, 
and fly rapidly with a jerky vertical movement. But then Whites 
are by far the most conspicuous butterflies, especially when at a 
distance, and doubtless they need their swift wings. The Catopsilias 
are nearly as conspicuous as the true Whites, and they fly even more 
swiftly. 
Among the Nymphalines the widespread Atella phalantha was 
represented by a few specimens at Marigold flowers. Precis orithyia 
(an insect that is apt to suffer much loss of beauty from grease) was 
not common, and the same is true of P. almana; a few of each were 
taken at flowers. At Zinnia flowers I got my first Hypolimnas 
misippus, Linn., a male; it impressed me as a most tropical-looking 
insect, though not so gorgeous as H. bolina ; it had both hind-wings 
clipped, possibly by a bird. 
The Blues were represented by two species—the neatly-marked 
Tarucus telicanus, Lang, common at the blue flowers of Plumbago 
capensis, and the little greyish-blue Zizera maha, abundant at the 
flowers of a species of Millet and some herbs of the Labiate family; 
amongst them was a specimen of the var. diluta. Blues swarm in 
India; many of the species are small and dusky, so that they are 
hard to follow on the wing, and their flight is even more jerky than 
that of Whites. They are often found on grassy banks as at home, 
but are especially addicted to water-drinking and are constantly 
present in irrigated fields and gardens. It must be confessed that 
the abundance of bigger game often led me to pass them by. Again, 
Blues when killed are apt to fold their wings the wrong way, and it 
is difficult to set them right again; but if kept in the bottle a 
short time only with a view to preventing this untoward result, they 
are apt to recover and fly away when the paper is opened while 
examining one’s captures after the day’s work. 
The dull-coloured Skipper Gegenes nostrodamus, was common in 
the gardens, but I only took one female. Small moths, mostly 
Pyrales, were abundant in a patch of long grass and herbage in a 
damp spot. One of these was Pyrausta incoloralis, Guen., another 
the very widely-distributed Marasmia trapezalis, Guen.; but by far 
the commonest was the pretty little black-and-white Zinckenia fasci - 
alis, very suggestive of our Ennychia cingulalis, Linn. Among the 
Pyrales was the tiny Gold-tail, Porthesia xanthorrhoea , Koll. ( [mar - 
ginalis, Walk.), which was flying in the sun. 
Two things, besides the numerous green Parrots, especially 
impressed me about the Shah Dara, Jehangir’s mausoleum. One 
