KAMAON 
65 
roadside several beautiful Lizards, grey-spotted, with bright blue 
legs. 
During the long and hot pull up again from Khairna to the ridge 
on which stand Eanikhet and Chaubattia, a dwarf Precis orithyia and 
a Neptis astola were taken at about 3500 ft., and at about 4000 ft. 
Belenois mesentina, Pyrameis indica, and Ilerda sena. 
At Eanikhet, 6000 ft. (where, by the way, the cooking at the 
Dak bungalow was the best that we came across in India), Monkeys 
were not uncommon in the woods, but unlike our legumen-loving 
friends of Khairna, of a revoltingly ugly type; Butterflies, however, 
were scarce, and were represented by Pyrameis cardui, Vanessa 
kashmirensis, Ilerda sena, and Lycaena maha, var. diluta. 
At Chaubattia, four miles to the east of Eanikhet, and at a 
height of about 6200 ft., the officers’ quarters command a most 
glorious panorama of Nanda Devi, 25,749 ft., Nanda Kot, 22,491 ft., 
and Trisul, 23,581 ft., mountains of unsurpassed grandeur of form, 
and held most sacred by pious Hindus as sources of Holy Ganges. 
These stand between fifty and sixty miles away, yet shine forth as 
clear and bright as if quite close. As we gazed in rapt admiration at 
these giants among giants, we little thought that within four years 
my nephew, Dr. Tom G. Longstaff, would earn a world-wide fame by 
struggling to the top of Trisul, not indeed the highest but quite the 
most striking of the three. 
On the road to Chaubattia we met with rather more butterflies, 
viz. our old friends Terias hecabe , Precis oenone and P. lemonias, Pyra¬ 
meis cardui, and Ghrysophanus pavana, and in addition something 
quite fresh, the Erycinid Dodona durga, KolL, of which I got three 
specimens; though a small insect it proved tenacious of life. A 
little beetle, Oides sp., was taken flying over the road. 
On descending again from Nairn to the plains I found, as at 
Simla, that butterflies got more numerous and more Oriental in 
character. At the top of the road the Hairstreak, Ilerda sena, was 
common; at 5000 ft, Yphthimaphilomela, Johanss., was met with; at 
the Brewery, circa 4500 ft., butterflies were very common at a flowery 
turn of the road, and I took Pyrameis indica, several Precis iphita, 
P. lemonias, and a male Hypolimnas bolina, while I missed a brown 
and white Neptis- like butterfly which may have been Bahinda 
hordonia, Stoll, or, possibly, Symbrenthia lucina, Cram. 
F 
