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to the female; on the fore-wing, below the median vein, is a longi¬ 
tudinal tawny stripe, while the hind-wing is a lighter tawny colour 
than usual. Neither Sir George F, Hampson, nor the late Colonel 
Bingham remembered having seen anything quite like it. 
A weedy neglected field near the river yielded, besides Danaida 
chrysippus and Atella phalantha, plenty of the Orange-tip Ixias 
marianne, as well as a smaller number of the more gaudy Ixias pyrene. 
One of the latter proved to be a worn specimen of the female lacking 
the orange tip, a distinct and well-marked variety; another was of 
the racial form cingalensis, Moore. The Whites Huphina nerissa 
and Gatophaga paulina were in plenty. A single Catopsilia pomona 
was netted, a somewhat papery-looking insect, especially on the 
under-side; also several C. pyranthe of the transitional gnoma 
form. In one of the latter, a male, I detected a faint scent, but less 
like that of jasmine than in the Catopsilia examined at Anantapur. 
In the same field Telchinia molae was abundant, while Ergolis ariadne 
was, as usual, common among Castor-oil plants. 
But all this time Solomon was most anxious to get me down to 
the river. This is a rapidly-flowing stream, occupying perhaps half 
its bed, and having on either bank sloping woods of mixed growth. 
Solomon sought out a place where a tiny tributary emerging from 
a rushy swamp trickled over the damp sand. He forthwith stuck 
into the wet sand a foot or so from the rill and well clear of the 
herbage, three or four large butterflies of which he had netted worn 
or broken specimens; then he stood by to watch. Nothing much 
happened, for unfortunately clouds had come up and the afternoon 
was only partly sunny, whereas to get many things at water, whether 
decoys be used or not, it needs, as Solomon put it, to be “ plenty 
hot.” It was indeed hot enough for most Europeans, but not up to 
the exacting butterfly standard. However, next day the conditions 
were more favourable, and I found near what was left of Solo¬ 
mon's decoys a number of Whites and Orange-tips. Accordingly I 
put down a few more decoys and walked away. After spending 
some time in vain endeavours to catch the conspicuous Hebomoia 
glaucippe, Linn.—giant of Orange-tips—which was careering wildly 
about in all directions, I returned to the decoy-place and sat down 
just within the reach of my six-feet net-stick. Gatophaga paulina 
were there in abundance, but all males, mostly sitting quite close 
together, almost touching, with wings erect so that the “ hook-tip ” 
of the fore-wing was very conspicuous; in another cluster close by 
were from six to eight Ixias marianne. 
It will perhaps give some idea of the numbers when I say that 
