92 
INDIA 
wives—Christian and Hindu as well as Moslem—were allowed free¬ 
dom of worship, and he even built temples for them. His tolerance 
is shown to this day by his architecture, a strange but beautiful 
mixture of Hindu with Mohammedan. Incidentally it affords 
evidence that in India, as in Japan, the art of the carpenter preceded 
that of the mason, whereas in Europe the reverse was the case. In 
Akbar’s great tomb near Agra the general design is obviously based 
on timber construction, while at FathipPr Sikri some of the most 
beautiful of the smaller buildings, entirely constructed of the cele¬ 
brated sandstone of the place, exhibit undoubted imitation of wood 
construction in the eaves, while the stone slabs covering the roofs 
are carved so as to resemble tiles. 
Here I found, most appropriately, that those ruin-frequenting 
butterflies, Belenois mesentina and Teracolus etrida , were both 
common, but all appeared to be males. The Belenois had a faint, 
sweet, flowery scent, which did not appear to me to be quite like 
that of any other insect. I took also one Teracolus puellaris , a 
female, and a most ferocious wasp, Eumenes dimidiatipennis, Sauss., 
a female. 
There were no Monkeys among the ruins, but I saw a Hare. 
Countless Doves coo-ed continually, and from time to time a Jay 
was seen, brilliantly coloured in two shades of blue, like a piece 
of Multan pottery. 
I asked the caretaker of Akbar’s tomb what was the purpose of 
a certain pavilion, and he answered, “ Band-stand, music-hall, tom¬ 
toms ! ” 
Ajmir, lat. 26° 30' N., alt. circa 1800 ft. 
February 4th and 5th, 1904. 
The crowds in the streets of Ajmir and Jaipijr, the only cities of 
Raj put ana that I visited, afforded a wonderful display of colour, such 
as I did not see elsewhere. 
The most notable capture here was Teracolus fausta , Oliv., of 
which I only got one male, a poor specimen, missing two others; it 
has a very distinct orange look on the wing, and I feel sure that I 
saw one on January 22nd at Palipahari, the artillery practice-camp 
near Jhansi. Of T. etrida I took two males, one of which had lost 
the apex of the left fore-wing and all its hind-margin, as well as the 
apex of the left hind-wing. This is notable as possibly being an 
attack on a “ direction mark.” 
I saw several battered Precis oenone. The smaller fry were 
