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Neptis eurynome might be said to have been abundant, while its 
ally, the brown-and-black Rahinda sinuata, Moore, was decidedly 
common. Of the Erycinid Libythea rama, which appears to mimic 
Rahinda , I secured one specimen at Kandy, and believe that I missed 
another in the Pashok tea-garden near Darjiling. 
I saw no females of Hypolimnas bolina at Kandy, but took three 
males, one of which had lost both the anal angles of the hind-wings, 
the injury being in part symmetrical. Precis iphita was common, so 
was P. atlites, looking on the wing like a dingy Neptis ; a new brood 
appeared on March 14th. Ergolis merione was common. 
The Lycaenids were not well represented, but I saw several 
Loxura atymnus, Cram, var. arcuata , Moore; as usual Lampides 
celeno was common, almost spangling in the sunlight, among them 
was a single specimen of the yet more beautiful L. lacteata , de Nicev. 
(pseudelpis , Moore, nee Butl.). It is a somewhat rare butterfly 
reminding me of the British adonis (bellargus). Talicada nyseus and 
the dingy Spalgis epius , Westw., brought up the rear. 
The Skippers were represented by single examples of the 
dull Parnara mathias , and the dark fulvous Iambrix salsala , 
Moore. 
At rest on a fence outside the “Queen’s Bath” I found one 
morning a fine Sphinx, Meganotum melanomera, Butl. A very dis¬ 
tinct-looking Arctiid, having a crimson body and light pink fore¬ 
wings, with a longitudinal fuscous streak, Creatonotus interruptus , 
Linn., came to light, as also did Eupterote diffusa , Walk. 
A few insects of other orders forced themselves upon me, busily 
occupied as I was, e.g. a gigantic, black female Carpenter-bee, 
Xylocopa tenuiscapa , Westw., with peacock-green wings; a very large, 
evil-smelling, brown Bug, Tessaratoma javanica , Thunb., covered 
beneath with a waxy substance that during life glistened like silver. 
Another bug, Chrysocoris stockerus, Linn., was an intense metallic 
green with black spots; yet more conspicuous than any of these was 
the large Fulgorid Hotinus maculatus , Oliv., a so-called Lantern-fly, 
expanding three inches across the wings. Its fore-wings are black 
and white, the hind-wings light blue with a very broad black border. 
This was fairly common, flying high and settling on tree-trunks out 
of reach, but easily disturbed, when it flies off to a similar resting- 
place not many yards away. 
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