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Works Department, kindly patronized Christianity, Buddhism and 
Brahmanism alike, and displayed his superiority to all three re¬ 
ligions by quoting Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer. 
The vicinity of the shrine and its sacred Bo-tree was by no means 
productive, but the next day, on a steep hill of red trap rock, over¬ 
looking the town, I saw for the first time the Acraeine Telchinia violae, 
Babr., on the wing it reminded me of Argynnis euphrosyne ; it was 
locally abundant and gregarious, its tone of colouring harmonizing 
with the red igneous rock. On the same hill were two or three Precis 
oenone and several small P. orithyia , while Zizera otis was abundant. 
In the course of this walk I noticed a Bakir, or religious mendicant 
ascetic, watching my operations with evident suspicion, probably 
owing to the reverence in which some of these folk hold all animal 
life. Presently a small native boy threw a stone at a squirrel. I 
thought better of the Bakir when he cursed the boy so fiercely that 
he fled in terror as fast as the squirrel, while I rolled up my 
umbrella-net and passed on, trying to elude observation! 
MozuffarpiIr, lat. 28° 8' 1ST., alt. circa 300 ft. 
On a flying visit, January 2nd, 1904, to this place, nearly north 
of Bankapur, I took in the Judge’s garden two Zizera otis } and one 
Z . maha. It was at the gate of this very compound that a few 
years afterwards a bomb, intended for my host’s successor, killed two 
ladies. 
JhInsi, lat. 25° 30' K, alt. circa 750 ft. 
January 5th—13th, also 21st, 1904. 
Situated on a sandy plain, broken by precipitous ridges of igneous 
rock, Jhansi, something like 750 ft. above the sea, is characterized 
by dryness, heat, and sparseness of cover. 
As in other Indian stations the Kite and the Yulture are most 
important officials of the Sanitary Department. More friendly are 
the chattering black Mainas in every garden; but, after all, the 
characteristic bird of India is the grey-headed Crow, which, always 
consequential, hops solemnly about as if everything in city and 
country alike belonged to him, and he was responsible for it. 
Among the butterflies a couple of Pa^ilio aristolochiae taken at 
flowers near the lake were the sole representatives of their family. 
Several Belenois mesentina were captured, but it was scarcely 
common; the male had a distinct, but faint, sweet scent; on the 
