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suggesting to me toy encampments. I easily netted ten at one swoop, 
while Mr. Freedley by a more cunning movement succeeded in get¬ 
ting as many as thirty-four into his net! In the same place I saw 
six or seven of the beautiful Papilio telephus, settled quite close 
together, and managed to secure three of them. It is a black-and- 
green species not easy to distinguish from P. jason, Linn. 
The females of Gatophaga paulina were common at flowers. One 
of the males, by the way, had a symmetrical injury to the tips of 
the hind-wings, but I can hardly see how it could have been inflicted 
by an enemy without simultaneous injury to the fore-wings. 
This day I saw two Ornithoptera darsius, one quite out of reach, 
the other I missed badly. 
Hatton, alt. 4200 ft. 
March 16th—18th, 1904. 
In going up-country from Kandy, when near Ullapane station 
[alt. circa 2500 ft.] I caught, from the train, Narmada montana , and 
a little further on, circa 3000 ft., a male Gatophaga paulina , a species 
that is very abundant in the Ceylon highlands. 
Before Hatton is reached the line enters the tea country, whence 
the glorious primaeval forests have disappeared, having been ruth¬ 
lessly and completely cleared out to make way first for coffee and 
later for tea. Though doubtless “ grateful and comforting,” the tea- 
plant is most unpicturesque, only by a little surpassing the potato in 
that quality. The Australian Grevillea trees [Nat. Ord. Proteaceae ] with 
their light feathery foliage, planted in regular rows to shelter slightly 
the tea from sun and wind, do but little to relieve its stiffness, and 
are a miserable substitute for the departed woodland glories, indeed 
they almost deserve to be classed as “ undesirable aliens.” About 
Hatton there are but scraps of the forest left on the tops of the 
highest hills, and we were told that the tea-planters are constantly 
urging the Forest Department to allow these to be improved away. 
Here for the first time I examined Gatophaga paulina for scent, 
and was surprised to find that the three males tested had a scent 
nearly as strong as that of G. napi , but different; it was described at 
the time as “ like sweet-briar, but sweeter and more luscious,” and I 
wrote to Dr. Dixey the same evening, adding that I had no doubt 
whatever. 
About the hotel garden Argynnis hyperbius was common; a male 
had the fore-wings notably shorter and broader than usual. 
A stroll in what is left of the old forest, towards the top of 
