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(twice). Mrs. Longstaff once called it “ sweet/’ twice failed to detect 
any scent: once said, “very slight lemon-verbena; yes, perhaps 
more like sweet-briar,” but once she said, “ a little gentle sort of 
scent; query ginger, or coarse brown sugar.” 
Though Catopsilia pyranthe seemed to be common in the lower 
country, I came across but a single male at Kandy ; it is interesting 
that the ordinary way of testing for scent gave a negative result, but 
that when the tufts or fringes were disturbed a strong ifyeesm-like 
scent was evolved. t In contrast to this C. pomona was plentiful; 
they varied very much in size; some specimens appeared to have 
been out a long time, one being stained. The great majority were 
of the pomona form, but four were decidedly of the form crocale, 
Cram., while two were transitional between these forms. On the 
other hand, there were three of the catilla , Cram., form, while two 
approached catilla in character. As regards time—while crocale 
occurred from January 17 to February 11, no catilla were seen before 
February 2, and the last (transitional) was taken on March 2. I 
several times beat this butterfly out of Tithonia diversifolia , a rank 
Mexican Composite that has been recently introduced; once this 
occurred after rain when everything was very wet; it seemed to be 
fond of resting among the leaves of the topmost shoots. C. pomona, 
is a flower-frequenting butterfly, being especially fond of the Vervain, 
Stachytarpheta jamaicensis (another introduced plant). It looked 
particularly handsome, feeding on its purple flowers, its greenish 
yellow colour forming a fine contrast, and reminding me of Callidryas 
euhule seen the year before at the same flowers at Port Antonio, 
Jamaica. There was some slight evidence of unusual tenacity of 
life in Catopsilia, but I do not lay stress on this. The scent of the 
male varied in intensity in different individuals, but though usually 
distinct was seldom very strong. I compared it often to Freesia , 
once to Stephanotis. In several females a very faint sweet or flowery 
scent was detected, but it was of different quality to that of the male. 
Injuries were observed in several specimens : a hind-wings, sym¬ 
metrical ; a $, hind-wings, symmetrical, (?) due to a bird; a a 
small injury involving all four wings, (?) due to a bird; a ?, anal 
angles of fore-wings, symmetrical; a $, tips of fore-wings, symmetrical; 
a ?, tips of hind-wings and anal angle of fore-wings, symmetrical; 
a apices of hind-wings, symmetrical; a ?, apices of hind-wings, 
symmetrical. This is a strongly built butterfly and not liable to 
accidental chipping as are many delicate Satyrines: in no other 
species were so many mutilated individuals met with. 
I do not know anything that is more closely associated in my 
