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INDIA 
Strong as it unquestionably is, it has been captured six times— 
thrice by us. In 1886 it was ceded to Scindia, a Prince always loyal 
to us, in exchange for Jhansi, a fort requiring fewer men to hold, 
and occupying a strategic position of great importance at a railway 
junction. 
During my convalescence I greatly appreciated the skill of my 
native servant as a masseur. 
By January 21st, though still suffering, I was just equal to 
another day’s collecting at Jhansi, but the species taken were not 
such as to show any change of type due to rain, even if such change 
had been possible. The insects met with were B . mesentina, I. 
marianne , T. etrida , A. phalantha, and T. theophrastus. 
Orchha. 
On January 9th we visited this fine deserted city, some eight 
miles to the east of Jhansi; it was once the capital of the native 
state of Orchha, and its bridge and castle are among the finest in 
India. During an hour’s collecting I took or saw Danaida plexippus , 
Precis lemonias, P. oenone, and P. orithyia (this last in abundance); 
Atella phalantha, an Ixias, Teraeolus etrida , a Terias, and several 
female Belenois mesentina. Monkeys were almost as common as 
butterflies among the ruined tombs. 
Barwa Sagar. 
On January 14th, I got a couple of hours’ unproductive collecting 
in the neighbourhood of the interesting and romantically-situated old 
castle of this name, which lies some twelve miles to the east of 
Jhansi. Barwa Sagar, like Orchha, is somewhat off the ordinary 
route of globe-trotters. The castle stands high, and is approached by 
a winding road between fine old trees that strangely recalled an 
English park. We were put up in what had been in the good old 
days the Zenana, now turned into a Dak bungalow. The whole 
place suggested rest, and the look-out over the pretty lake with its 
countless thousands of Cormorants was a pleasant change after dusty 
Jhansi. 
Here I observed in two specimens of Danaida chrysippus (of 
which certainly one was a male) a distinct cockroach-like odour, suffi¬ 
ciently strong to be perceptible when the insect was fluttering in the 
net. Of Qatopsilia pyranthe I took a female of the gnoma form; 
of Terias hecabe a male, the variety without the “ dog’s head ” mark ; 
