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Cyaniris puspa, Horsf.; and a very large handsome Skipper, Celaenor- 
rhinus leucocera, Koll. In the rest-house there was a dead Pyrale, 
Lepyrodes geometralis, Gnen. 
The next day, December 18th, I sent my pony on ahead, and 
walked down to the river collecting on the way. In the Cinchona 
plantation close to the rest-honse I found Zemeros flegyas ; lower 
down were Euthalia appiades , Menet., of which I saw several worn 
specimens; a Hairstreak, Arrhopala bazalus, Hew., like a glorified 
Theda quercus; Lethe verma , Koll.; and Melanitis ismene , the last 
as usual in the shade. 
A path leading off through the wood brought me to a tea-garden, 
perhaps 1500 ft. above sea-level, where I lingered all too long. 
Tea-gardens are not as a rule good places for butterflies, and the 
pretty flower of the Tea-plant, then just coming out, does not appear 
to have great attractions for them, but this particular garden, just at 
the edge of the forest, and especially that corner of it where a little 
stream runs in, was certainly very prolific. 
Athyma ranga , Moore, was in abundance, though worn; likewise 
its relatives of the genus Neptis , but the three specimens that I sent 
home belonged to as many so-called species: N. aceris, Cram., 
N. asiola, and N. varmona , Moore; the closely allied, but brown and 
black, Symbrenthia lucina, Cram. ( hippodus , de Nicev.), was almost 
as common among the Tea-bushes. Of the satin-winged Eiposcritia 
indra , Moore, I took two females. Of the following I got single 
examples only :—Caduga melaneus, Cram., and Parantica melanoides, 
Moore, two very similar black and white Danaines; Athyma seleno- 
phora , Koll.; Yphthima philomela ; Arrhopala centaurus , Pabr.; and 
Castalius anaura, de Nicev., a female, while another Blue, Lampides 
elpis, Godart, pale and beautifully sheeny, was common. I also missed 
what was, I believe, IAbythea rama , Moore. There were in addition 
two moths, an Arctiid, Leucoma submarginata , Walk., and a Hypsid, 
the fuscous and white Zonosoma cenis , Cram, {interledum, Walk.), 
the former possibly, the latter certainly, a day-flyer. The great 
number of fresh species showed that I had entered a distinct 
geographical sub-region. 
At last I dragged myself away and an hour later reached a most 
attractive flowery bank immediately above the river. This was 
evidently a great place, for in a very short time I secured two sadly 
battered Papilio memnon, Linn., of the form agenor, Linn.; a large 
male Ixias pyrene with the fore-wings almost symmetrically bitten 
near the tip of the costa; also an insect that I had greatly desired 
to take, the lovely and delicate-looking Map-butterfly, Cyrestis 
