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majestically, looking very distinguished in its rich yellow and 
black livery, and very impressive by its size, five and a half to 
six inches in expanse of wings ! When it comes within reach it is 
not hard to catch, and I secured two males and a female, but it is a 
formidable-looking creature in the net, with a thorax suggestive of 
a Bombyx. Mr. Freedley told me that the males have a scent like 
sassafras, but I learned this too late for confirmation. The male 
Papilio pammon was common enough, one specimen was unusually 
small, measuring under three inches. Two specimens of P. aristo - 
lochiae (a distasteful butterfly) were brought home; one of them has 
the tips of the hind-wings up to the tails bitten off quite sym¬ 
metrically, thus much resembling the mutilated specimen of P. hector 
taken at Kallar. Of the tailless P. dissimilis, Linn., I took three, 
but probably saw more, since it so very closely mimics Tirumala 
limniace or a large Parantica aglea, as readily to pass for one of those 
insects; it is indeed most easily distinguished from them by its 
habit of fluttering while feeding on a flower. One of my specimens 
has the anal angle and a great portion of both hind-wings bitten off 
in an almost symmetrical manner, suggesting the bite of a lizard. 
Prof. E. B. Poulton, in the paper alluded to above (p. 44), noted that 
whatever the cause may be, it is in the great majority of cases the 
hind-wings that suffer these injuries; doubtless the framework of 
the fore-wings is the stronger, but that does not seem to be a 
sufficient explanation, since owing to their greater length they must 
be more exposed to chance injuries from thorns and the like. One 
is therefore driven to the explanation that their enemies must 
usually attack butterflies from behind. Mr. Freedley took a Papilio 
dissimilis that mimicked Euploea, for the species is dimorphic, one 
form mimicking each Danaine genus. Indeed it would appear that 
the name dissimilis implies that its bearer is like anything rather 
than a Papilio} 
In a shaded glen down which a tiny stream and a footpath strove 
for the possession of the ground, I took close to the water a faded 
specimen of my Kallar acquaintance Papilio telephus , and missed 
another that was drinking at the mud. But far more exciting than 
all the before-mentioned species was Papilio parinda , a truly 
magnificent fly that dashed about in all directions. 2 It measures 
1 The nomenclature of this butterfly is very puzzling. Of Linnaeus’ two names 
clytia and dissimilis , it would appear that the former has priority; lankeswam, 
Moore, is a Ceylon race of the dark form. My dark specimens might therefore be 
called P. clytia lankeswara, my light specimens P. clytia dissimilis. 
2 The male of the Ceylon butterfly is almost identical with that of the mainland ; 
the female is distinct. Mr. Rothschild considers parinda, Moore, to be a local race 
