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INDIA 
divide and leave the pavement bare. It is evident enough that 
the respective feelings of Bengali and Pathan are those of fear and 
contempt. 
BAliganj. 
At the truly splendid museum (where, by the way, I saw a 
native artist at work producing some of the very best coloured 
figures of beetles and butterflies that I have seen), Mr. S. E. Peal, 
besides helping me in other ways, put me on the track of one of 
the late Mr. de Niceville’s favourite collecting-grounds, a rus in urbc, 
at Baliganj, a suburb only three miles from the hotel. I visited 
this place twice, on December 5th and 9th. It consists of a large 
deserted garden long run wild; weedy meadows and jungly woods 
are all that is left of once trim lawns and ordered shrubberies, while a 
palm avenue and several tanks covered with a floating flower of the 
Convolvulus order, harbouring countless dragon-flies, complete the 
tale of departed greatness. Altogether it is full of sad beauty. 
Palms and Crotons with an undergrowth of ferns were the character¬ 
istic plants, flowers were few, yet in certain favoured spots butter¬ 
flies were in quite bewildering swarms. The quiet charm of this 
old garden was greatly enhanced by the absence of curious natives 
and the (comparative) absence of burrs, that curse of “ up-country ” 
collecting, though certainly the unsuspected prickles of innocent¬ 
looking Palms to some extent took their place. 
Some of the species seen near the centre of the city, in the Eden 
Gardens, were here conspicuous by their absence, e.g. Limenitis pro- 
cris , Precis lemonias and Hypolimnas misippus. 
The four common Danaines, Tirumala limniace , Crastia core, 
Danaida plexippus and D. chrysippus, were not so common as might 
have been expected, probably owing to the scarcity of the flowers 
they love. In the last-named species I was able once more to 
confirm the presence of a distinct, but not strong, odour suggestive 
of cockroaches. A few Papilio pammon of both sexes gave to the 
assemblage that air of distinction which the genus always has. 
Among the more sombre things, most frequent under the shade of 
groves, were a number of Mycalesis indistans, Moore, together with 
one M. perseus , which two species, so far as observed, have no “ list ” 
when at rest. In the shade also were two or three Melanitis ismene, 
Gram. Close down among the herbage together with Yphthima 
hubneri there were flying large numbers of F. philomela , Johanss., 
([baldus , Fabr.) certainly a gregarious species. 
