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enough to catch any of the more striking sorts. The somewhat 
dull Surendra quercetorum, Moore ( discalis ), occurred very sparingly. 
The slightly more attractive Bapala lazulina , Moore, was not common. 
I thought its male had a scent like chocolate, but my wife compared 
it to vanilla biscuits, a distinctly closer comparison. Chocolate 
is so frequently flavoured (and therefore scented) with vanilla that 
one’s imperfect sense-organ often fails to distinguish the true smell 
of the chocolate (as for instance in cacao-butter) from that of the 
vanilla. I believe both scents are found among butterflies. In 
B. lazulina , I specially noted that the lobes on the hind-wings 
are everted, as in Aphnaeus} A single Virachola isocrates , Fabr., a 
female, occurred on the top of the hill above Lady Horton’s Drive. 
The long-tailed Loxura arcuata , Moore, was quite common in the 
“ half-mile gallop.” It is a singular insect with a darting flight, and 
it rests in a peculiar attitude. The head is usually directed down¬ 
wards, the wings closed above the insect’s back, with the lobes of the 
hind-wings three-quarter everted, showing an eye-spot when viewed 
from above. The inner margin of the hind-wing is bent inwards. 
The long tails are crossed with their tips turned upwards in a curve, 
and they appear to be somewhat twisted. 1 2 
So much for the Lycaenids. The Pierines made a more goodly 
show but were not really as numerous. Of the ghostly little Leptosia 
xiphia I saw but one at Kandy. Delias eucharis is as interesting a 
butterfly as it is beautiful. Though believed to be distasteful I took 
two specimens with well-marked symmetrical injuries, involving in 
one case both fore-, in the other both hind-wings. It appeared to 
be somewhat tenacious of life, though not nearly so hard to kill 
as the Danaines. In the course of my Indian tour 3 I had detected 
a scent in this butterfly, but was in some doubt as to whether it 
existed in the female as well as in the male ; accordingly, the butterfly 
being common at Kandy I examined a number of specimens. Dr. 
Dixey had informed me that the scent-scales are very numerous in the 
male Delias. As a result of my investigations I can state with con¬ 
fidence that the male D. eucharis has a strong scent, sometimes very 
strong (so as to be perceptible when the' insect is fluttering in the 
net), which may, I think, be well described as like that of sweet-briar. 
As regards the female I speak with less assurance : nevertheless a 
majority of those examined had a very faint scent, which I described 
as “ sweet ” (twice), “ dusty or musty,” “ flowery,” “ sweet-briar ” 
1 See above, p. 68, and Fig. 5. 
2 For the resting attitude of the closely allied L. atymnus, Cram., see above, p. 73. 
3 See above, pp. 85, 86. 
