TRICHINAPALI 105 
I missed the next day at Lanlana flowers, as I believe, through sheer 
excitement. 
Trichinapali, lat. 10° 50' N., alt. circa 400 ft. or less. 
March 4th and 5th, 1904. 
The famous Rock is a mass of granite consisting of enormous 
blocks—perhaps 100 X 50 x 50 ft. The rocks of Southern India 
struck me as unusual in this respect—the fewness of the joints. 
Whether this be due to the absence of frost, or to the stability of the 
hills and absence of earth-movements, I cannot say. 1 
My collecting here was almost confined to the banks of an irriga¬ 
tion canal, where the genus Papilio was represented by P. hector, 
P. pammon , and P. aristolochiae, of each of which I saw several. 
Danaida chrysippus was common; in the male of Tirumala limn - 
iace I detected a very faint scent, suggesting old cigar-boxes. 
Catopsilia pyranthe was rather common, the specimen preserved 
was of the intermediate form; a scent was noted in the male, but it 
was not so strong as in some of the Bankapur specimens. Of Delias 
eucharis I took two females, by far the less common sex, at all events 
in collections. Both sexes of Huphina nerissa occurred. Terias 
hecabe was abundant. 
The most striking fact about the butterflies of Trichinapali was 
the predominance of the genus Teracolus; of these I met with three 
species: T. eucharis, Fabr., was in abundance, but my specimens 
comprise eight males to two females; of T. etrida I took two 
males ; and I was greatly delighted to see here for the first time that 
truly exquisite little gem the crimson-tipped T. danae, Fabr., which 
proved to be rather common, and two of each sex were secured. It 
is one of the most “ elegant flies ” that I have ever seen alive. 
Precis orithyia was common, the specimens small and brilliant; 
P. lemonias was in larger numbers than I met with anywhere else, 
in fact quite abundant; Ergolis ariadne was common; I netted a 
pair of Byblia ilithyia, Drury, in copula, one was of the wet- 
season form, the other intermediate tending to wet. As usual 
Telchinia molae was common. 
I took here one specimen of that beautiful Lycaenid with the 
under-side striped like a tiger, Spindasis vulcanus. This is one of 
the butterflies with an anal lobe to the hind-wings, but unfortunately 
there was no opportunity of observing it at rest. Lampides celeno 
1 Dr. John W. Evans tells me that in the tropics eruptive rocks weather by a 
process of scaling, by which concentric layers are split off. 
