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INDIA 
Lucknow, lat. 27° N., alt. circa 500 ft. 
November 24th and 25th, 1903. 
Lucknow possesses a museum containing a fair collection of 
insects, which would have been more instructive if the majority of 
the species had been named. 
In the beautiful garden of the Dilkusha Palace, where Havelock 
fell sick of the illness that was to prove fatal in the very hour 
of triumph, there was a great wealth of flowers and consequently a 
great assemblage of butterflies. Besides such things as Papilio demo - 
leus; Argynnis hyperbius, a female; Hypolimnas misippus, several 
males; Crastia core , both typical and the variety vermiculata, Butl.; 
and a Catopsilia which evaded capture, I took there my first Papala 
melampus , Cram. This is a small copper-coloured butterfly belonging 
to a genus which, with its robust body, sharp-cut wings, and curious 
anal lobe to the hind-wing, looks very different from our Hairstreaks 
or Coppers. It is neither easy to see on the small flowers which it 
frequents, nor to catch. 
Other butterflies taken in the same garden were the Blues, Cato- 
chrysops strabo, Fabr., Tarucus telicanus , and Zizera (?) argia, Moore, 
var. similis, the last two in abundance; Mycalesis perseus, Fabr., and the 
brilliant tawny Skipper, Telicota augias. A beautiful little Noctua 
with yellow under-wings, Hyblaea puera , Cram., was taken at flowers 
in full sunlight. I also took a Grasshopper, Gastrimargus marmoratus, 
Thunb., a species of wide distribution. 
By the roadside between Dilkusha and La Martiniere a few 
Chilades putli , Koll., a tiny brown Lycaenid, were obtained. 
At the Alam Bagh, ever to be remembered in connection with 
Colin Campbell, the dry-season form of Terias hecabe was flitting 
quietly about, and I netted Ixias marianne (not so vulgar-looking as 
its name might lead one to expect), also a variety of the female of 
I. pyrene without the orange-tip. A male of the wet-season form of 
Huphina nerissa was also taken, while Delias eucharis was common 
—one was feeding on Zinnia flowers close to Havelock’s grave. 
TJtetheisa pulchella was flying commonly in the sun amongst the grass, 
and with it a specimen of its near ally Argina cribraria, Clerck. 
The Coleoptera were represented by Mylabris sidae, and the Micros by 
a Pyrale, Pyrausta phoenicealis, Hiibn. (juncturalis, Walk.). 
Peel’s naval guns at the Besidency reminded us that the sailor- 
men were as handy in the relief of Lucknow as in the defence of 
Ladysmith. But there were no butterflies to be seen in the well-kept 
garden on the afternoon of our visit, and perhaps that was as well 
