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form with the ocelli rudimentary. P. almana would appear to be 
the more prevalent species in Ceylon and Southern India, where it 
replaces P. orithyia , so universal in the North. 
I saw several Delias eucharis in the Victoria Park, and once more 
noticed their fondness for lofty flowering trees; those taken were 
males. In the same place, what I think must have been the catilla 
form of Catopsilia pomona eluded my net; its congener pyranthe was 
common, and I took two males. Once more Telchinia molae was 
common, but of Papilio aristolochiae I have only one to record, of 
Yphthima ceylonica two. 
Of the Blues there were several species. Nacadula ardates was 
very abundant and decidedly gregarious, it positively swarmed in 
Victoria Park, though good specimens were scarce. Everes argiades , 
Butl., var. parrhasius, Fabr., and Zizera harsandm were also both of 
them abundant. I took also a single worn specimen of Castalius 
rosimon. 
An immature example of my Peshawar friend Tryxalis nasuta, 
taken in Victoria Park, completes the list of my captures in Ceylon, 
an island that I was truly sorry to leave and that will always occupy 
a treasured place in my memory. 
English is more spoken in Ceylon than in most parts of India, 
but the Sinhalese appear more noted for fluency than accuracy. 
The inner meaning of the following apparently strange request of a 
lad is easy to fathom: “ Master, buy some butterflies, ready-made.” 
On getting back to the hotel from an entomological expedition, one 
of the messengers came up to me and said : “ Missie told you to told 
me they had gone in.” 
