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was common; some smaller and dingier Blues were abundant: Zizera 
otis, var. indica , and Chilades varunana. I also took one specimen 
of a small bright golden Skipper, Ampittia maro , Eabr. 
TANJtfR, lat. 10° 47' N., alt. 350 ft. or less. 
March 6th, 1904. 
The predominant genus of the plains of Southern Madras would 
appear to be Teracolus, which was represented in my envelopes from 
TanjtIr by a male T. etrida , a pair of T. eucharis, as well as five 
males and two females of my favourite Crimson-tip, T. danae , which 
was quite common. 
Of Catopsilia pyranthe I took a dwarf male of the intermediate 
form. Terias hecabe was common, and I took a very large female, 
over 1*8 inches in expanse, of the dry-season form. Single specimens 
of the following were sent home: Nychitona xiphia; Papilio pammon , 
male; Danaida chrysippus, female; Castalius wsimon and Lampides 
celeno, of the form conferanda . Telchinia molae was common, one 
being of a fine red colour. 
Madura, lat. 9° 55' N., alt. 600 ft. 
March 7th, 1904. 
The imposing Dravidian architecture of the South culminates 
in the truly magnificent temple at Madura. The traveller who con¬ 
fines his attention to the Northern cities will come away with the 
idea that the architecture of India is that associated with Islam. 
Indeed the sole Hindu religious work of the North which really 
impressed me was the colossal sitting statue of Siva in the celebrated 
cave on the island of Elephanta, near Bombay. That figure, with its 
three faces representing the god in his three aspects of creator, pre¬ 
server, and destroyer, did to my mind suggest something super-human. 
All other sculptures that I had seen were rude, coarse, even repulsive. 
The ancient Hindu temples of the North were destroyed by the 
Moslem invaders and the materials, as at Lalkot and Ajmir, used in 
the construction of mosques. Here, however, in the extreme south 
of the continent, stands a group of temples that for impressiveness 
recall those of Egypt. They are, however, much less ancient, having 
been for the most part erected between the 13th and 18th centuries. 
In the great temple near Trichinapali it was interesting to see 
“ the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold 
