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in the early afternoon, I saw fourteen or fifteen Canoris napi sitting 
close together on wet mud; they were all males. 
Adjoining the plantation of the singularly graceful Areca palms 
was a piece of waste ground covered with Lantana in full bloom, 
this was crowded with butterflies such as Crastia core and Narmada 
coreoides, Moore, one or both of which (for I did not distinguish them 
when alive) was abundant; with them were several Neptis eurynome , 
and two or three Nepheronia ceylanica, Feld., another southern species. 
But more striking than all these were the swarms of Tirumala lim- 
niace , a big and handsome black and bluish-white Danaine, which I 
found all over India but never saw elsewhere in anything like such 
numbers as on that mass of Lantana. 
Other things that turned up in the course of the two days’ collect¬ 
ing were Tachyris hippo , two; Teracolus etrida , one; Hypolimnas 
bolina, two males; H. misippus, one male; Precis iphita , common; 
Cast alius rosimon, Fabr., plenty of Lampides celeno, including the 
form conferanda; and one Parnara mathias. 
A specimen of the fine Skipper, Caprona ransonnettii , Feld., was 
seen to settle, in full sunshine, on the underside of a leaf, with its 
wings fully expanded like a Geometer. I do not ever remember 
seeing a butterfly do this before, but then we are perhaps wrong in 
calling Skippers butterflies. One of the Lampides , a female (?), was 
found settled close to the ground, with all its wings erect as usual 
and close together; it was, however, moving its hind-wings alter¬ 
nately, in a rhythmical manner, in the plane of the wing , about 
10-15° forward and then back. No other specimen of the species 
was near it. 
On the occasion of my first visit to Kallar, as we were walking 
back to the station, Solomon suddenly darted off like the wind, and 
I found that he was after a very large Papilio which he had caught 
sight of flying about a puddle in the road, some hundred and fifty 
yards off. He waited long and patiently until it settled to drink and 
then popped his net over it. It was a male Papilio polymnestor in 
splendid condition, familiarly called by Solomon a Blue-bottle. This 
haughty beauty was not kind to me at Kallar; many a time I caught 
a glimpse of her flying about in a supercilious sort of way, but she 
never gave me a chance of closer acquaintance. Solomon had the 
advantage of me in many ways, first and foremost in years, next in 
his keen sight, but he was also wily and skilful with his net. During 
the day he took among other things a specimen of Papilio agamemnon , 
Linn., a fine black-and-green fellow that I too had seen; also one of 
that grand diamond-beetle-green butterfly Papilio crino , Fabr., which 
