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represented by a neat little chequered Skipper, Hesperia galba, 
Fabr. The emerald-like Stilbum splendidum , Fabr., turned up both 
here and at Jaipur, and did its best to gratify the Rajputs’ love of 
brilliant colour, for the little Cuckoo-wasp is as brilliant, though of 
course not so effective, as the numerous wild Peacocks that sat in 
twos and threes upon the railway fences. 
On Taragarh, the precipitous hill that overtops the city by 
perhaps 500 ft., I got only Belenois mesentina, Terias laeta , and a 
long-waisted female wasp, Eumenes dimidiatipennis. 
Mt. Abu, lat. 24° 30' K, alt. of civil and military station 
circa 4100 ft. 
February 6th—8th, 1904. 
Insects were extremely scarce upon the sacred Jaina mountain. 
The commonest butterfly was Terias laeta; it was abundant up 
to 4500 ft., and the only representative of the genus seen. These, 
together with Belenois mesentina, Huphina nerissa , a few Precis 
lemonias, and a couple of tages- like Skippers (which I missed upon 
rocks at about 4400 ft.), were the only butterflies that I saw on the 
elevated plateau. One moth, the very widely-distributed Crambus, 
Eromene ocellea, Haw., came to light. 
At lower elevations, on the fine road up from the plain, the 
following were met with: at about 3000 ft., Belenois mesentina, 
Tarucus telicanus, and Polyommatus baeticus , the last as usual in 
poor condition. From 3500 ft. down to 2500 ft. a few Yphthima 
inica, Hew., were seen, and at about the last-named elevation, among 
the rocks of a nearly dry water-course, I saw two specimens of the 
beautiful Nymphalid, Symphaedra thyelia , Fabr., but only secured 
one; unfortunately time was pressing, or I might probably have 
taken more; it has the habits of a Vanessa. 
The temple of Vimala Sah, built wholly of white marble which 
must have been transported 300 miles, and then carried 4000 ft. up 
the granite mountain, is a marvel of beautiful work. Its special 
characteristic is the delicately wrought pendant under the dome, 
built, mind you, in the eleventh century, anticipating our Gothic 
builders’ efforts in the same direction by close upon five centuries. 
The hundreds of figures of Buddha, all exactly alike, show how far a 
religion can depart from the ideas of its founder. 
