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a high hill, say at about 4500 ft., produced several specimens of 
Lethe daretis , Hew., a regular sylvan Satyrine, repeatedly settling on 
the path, apparently always erect. Two of them had lost large 
portions of the hind-wings near the anal angle, one symmetrically 
and in a way to suggest the bite of a lizard. On the under-surface 
of this butterfly the unusually large light-coloured scales set on a 
black ground near the hind margin of the hind-wings are strikingly 
conspicuous. In the same scrap of forest I took a single specimen of 
another species of the same genus, L. drypetes , Hew. ( enibolina , 
Butl.); also a Limenitis calidasa , Moore, settled on a leaf of a tree 
far from the ground, as is usual with the genus. Several Atella 
phalantha, a few Neptis eurynome and Terias hecabe were also seen, a 
female of the last-named being of the " completely wet ” form. 
My only specimen of Gyaniris singalensis is very like our argiolus. 
With some difficulty I secured a specimen of the large black and 
white Skipper, Celaenorrhinus spilothyrus, Feld. This was the second 
Skipper [the other being Gaprona ransonnettii, at Kallar] that I 
had seen settle on the under-side of a leaf during full sunshine , the 
wings being expanded like a Geometer’s. Another example was 
settled on a rock with its wings expanded in like manner. 
In the hotel I found at rest on a wall what at the time I took 
to be a fine Burnet, but it was the Syntomid, Euchromia polymena, 
Linn., 1 it has narrow black wings bearing orange spots, the body is 
blue, ringed and collared with scarlet; in my bedroom I took a 
beautiful little Tortrix-like Noctua, Metachrostis incondita , Butl., 
measuring only 17 mm. across the wings : also Pomasia psylaria , 
Guen., a pretty little yellow Geometer with metallic markings, 
evidently attracted by light; with the moths was a most formidable- 
looking, long-waisted wasp, Eumenes petiolata , Eabr., a female. 
We visited Hatton in order to ascend Adam’s Peak, driving 
thence to a small hotel near the mountain. We were called at mid¬ 
night, and started soon after by the dim light of lanterns. The last 
1000 ft. or more is a remarkably steep cone of granite, sparsely 
covered with scrub. The ascent presents no mountaineering diffi¬ 
culties, but is remarkably fatiguing as it consists of excessively 
irregular steps, some natural, others hewn out of the rock, or built up, 
some formed by roots. It took nearly two hours, and to go up 
steps continuously for that length of time by lantern light, with eyes 
glued to the ground, is trying alike to eyes and limbs, nerves and 
1 The Syntomids have for the most part a strong resemblance to the Zygaenids, 
and Sir George F. Hampson, in his “ Moths of India,” placed the two families next 
to one another, but he has more recently separated them widely. 
