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of G. core had a faint scent that suggested to me rancid oil, or old 
lamps. So far as I could judge, this scent was connected with the 
hind-wings, but not with the very conspicuous genital tufts. 
At the lantana flowers along with the Danaines were abundance 
of Suastus gremius, Fabr., a somewhat dingy Skipper, also a few of 
the brilliant and conspicuous Delias eucharis. The upper-side of the 
female of this species faintly mimics Tirumala; the male yielded, on 
rubbing the wings, a sweet flowery scent, which I was not at first 
able to describe, but later it struck me as resembling that of our 
domesticated Ganoris rapae and suggestive of sweet-briar. Dr. Dixey 
informs me that scent-scales are very numerous in Delias. 
In the shadier parts of the garden together with numerous Terias 
hecabe, one at least of markedly wet-season type, and many Yphthima 
hubneri , Kirby, several Nychitona xiphia were found, which, as ever, 
reminded me of Leucophasia sinapis, a slender form and fragile appear¬ 
ance being in each species associated with a weak flight close to the 
ground. One of the Y. hubneri had the whole hind margin of both 
hind-wings bitten off nearly symmetrically. 
Catopsilia pyranthe and C. pomona were both met with, the former 
the more frequently. No Papilio turned up although I was told that 
P. pammon occurs in the garden. Amongst young Palms the males 
of Elymnias undularis, Drury, were occasionally disturbed, and a very 
striking thing it is. Then Nepheronia hippia, Fabr., came along, 
flying strongly, the male looking on the wing, or more especially 
when settled on a flower with wings expanded, much bluer than its 
cabinet appearance might lead one to suppose. Three Limenitis 
proeris , Cram., proved difficult to catch, preferring the leaves of tall 
shrubs to flowers; but it is scarcely as graceful on the wing as our 
White Admiral. 
I took two specimens of Catochrysops pandava } Horsf., var. 
bengalia , de Nicev. (being the dry-season form); the female is a 
demure creature, but the male is of an iridescent blue, bordered with 
black. Hypolimnas misippus, a male, Precis almana and P. lemonias 
completed the list of twenty species taken in four visits to the 
gardens. With them was a Fossor, Elis thoracica, Fabr., a female. 
The walk from the hotel to the museum went far towards solving 
the problem of the disproportion between the garrison of Calcutta 
and the size of the city. The pavement of the road alongside of the 
Maidan (the first green one that we had seen in India) is of quite 
unusual breadth. It is usually occupied by throngs of people, 
mostly Bengalis. Presently three Pathan sipahis come swaggering 
along the middle of the path arm-in-arm. Instantly the crowd 
