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Guen., and Idaea (?) fibulata Guen. (worn), and the very widely-dis¬ 
tributed Etiella zinckenella , Treit. 
A ferocious-looking Arachnid, a Solpuga, shared the Dak Bungalow 
with us. 
Among the many marvels of BijapEr are the monster cannon : 
one of these “ The Lord of the Battle Plain/" cast during the reign 
of our Elizabeth, has a calibre of 2 feet 4 inches. It was a curious 
proof of the superstitious reverence which the natives show to any¬ 
thing big, that grains of rice inside the gun gave evidence of recent 
puja (worship) offered to it. 
Another gun, of 12-inch calibre, I take it of much later date, 
was a forerunner of our “ wire ” guns, being built up of longitudinal 
iron bars, round which other bars were spirally wound and the whole 
forged together. A smaller gun of similar structure in the fort at 
Jhansi defied the efforts of our sappers to destroy it. 
Anantapur, lat. 14° 30' N., alt. circa 1500 ft. 
February 18th—23rd, 1904. 
This small civil station, situated on an irrigated though elevated 
plain devoted to the growing of cotton and rice, is typical of Southern 
India. 
A very hot walk to some small granite hills on the other side of 
the lake produced little beside two males of Ixias marianne , and a 
solitary Teracolus eucharis; the hills seemed actually too hot, dry, 
and parched to harbour butterflies. 
About the trees along the dam, or “ bandh,” were a few Hypo- 
limnas misippus, males, and abundance of Papilio aristolochiae. 
In the cotton fields by the river Byhlia (Eypanis) ilithyia , Drury, 
was to be got, but not plentifully. 
The best collecting-ground was a very weedy nursery-garden and 
orchard. Here I one day had the advantage of the assistance of my 
host, Mr. Edwin Scott, I.C.S., whose keen appreciation of scents 
helped me greatly. Danaida chrysippus was abundant; of its scent 
Mr. Scott’s first impression was “ some sort of dung,” then “ a zoo ”; 
later he said “ possibly like a cockroach, but more like a musk-rat.” 
The scent is, I think, general, but is perhaps stronger when the 
sacs on the hind-wings are opened: a fact that I also observed at 
Calcutta. 
Grastia core was common and gregarious, frequenting a special 
Mango-tree. When he smelt this insect Mr. Scott at once cried out 
