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it lias a swift jerky flight. The hind-wing of this species is much 
plaited, but the anal lobe is rudimentary. 
Other captures were Huphina nerissa , a male ; Ganoris canidia, a 
female with all the hind margin of the hind-wing gone; Tachyris 
hippo, Cram., a male; Arrhopala rama, Koll. ; Neptis astola; Ilerda 
epicles, with all the hinder part of the hind-wing apparently bitten 
off by a lizard; Cirrhochroa aoris, Doubl., which I had seen at Pashok 
on the previous day; Lethe rohria, very like Pararge aegeria in its 
habits and liking for shade ; and Argynnis hyperbius, this last in the 
Cinchona plantation at about 3600 ft. A large white butterfly, bright 
yellow underneath, fluttering at the sweet white flower of the Cin¬ 
chona, led me to dismount, and it was well that I did so, for it 
turned out to be Prioneris thestylis, Doubl., and fortunately a female; 
this must be very much the less common sex, at any rate the Hope 
Collection contained no female of the genus. 
All the afternoon was spent in a somewhat weary ride along a 
very bad track through the forest. Many of the trees were immense, 
and up their huge boles crawled large-leaved creepers such as I had 
never set eyes upon before. It was chill and dark with scarce a 
butterfly to be seen, but I caught sight of a mammal which I took 
to be a Civet Cat. 
The next day, December 20th, I rode down to the Eanjit Eiver, 
the boundary of Sikkim, the great Papilio country. Unfortunately 
the distance to be traversed reduced my actual collecting to less 
than four hours. 
At about 3000 ft. I took two of the Erycinid Zemeros flegyas, 
also Symbrenthia lucina. The chief collecting-ground was near the 
suspension bridge leading into Independent Sikkim, closed this year 
(1903) to all Europeans, including entomologists, on account of the 
Tibetan difficulty. It was trying to a European temper to be 
stopped by a coloured policeman, while natives passed freely over. 
Here, some 800 ft. above the sea, the first thing that I happened 
upon was Danaida chrysippus in extreme abundance in a very limited 
locality, it was in fact decidedly gregarious. By the way, pinching 
and cyanide are both but very imperfect ways of slaying these tough¬ 
skinned Danaines. 
PJlymnias undularis, both sexes, was common, but I did not see 
any D. plexippus for its female to mimic; although the under-side of 
this butterfly is leaf-like, it is, as a fact, usually conspicuous when 
settled. I caught distant glimpses of two Papilios and missed my 
first Hebomoia, in fact the things that I missed that day would have 
made quite a good collection. 
