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of the few natives that were about to give me a green nut wherefrom 
to drink withal. No, the palms were all the property of a great 
native landowner, and they dared not pick a single nut. 
It is strange that in a locality where the Lantana covered acres, 
I did not so much as see either Danaida chrysippus or plexippus. 
However, Tirumala septentrionis was not uncommon. Parantica 
aglea was comparatively scarce, at any rate only two specimens were 
brought home. Crastia asela was commoner than either of the other 
Danaines ; a female specimen had suffered a remarkable unilateral 
injury whereby it had lost nearly all the hind margin of the fore-wing, 
and part of that of the hind-wing adjoining. 
Neither did the Satyrines figure very largely in the living picture : 
Nissanga patnia, so abundant at Kandy, was quite scarce; of Orso- 
triaena mandata one female was taken; I have no note of Yphthima 
ceylonica , but can hardly believe that it was entirely absent. 
A female Euthalia vasanta , Moore, found fluttering on the ground, 
had probably been trodden upon, a fate to which its habits may well 
lay it open,. A worn male of E. garuda, Moore, was also taken. A 
tattered male of Char axes fabius, Fabr., was drinking on damp sand, 
as was a male of Charaxes ( Eulepis ) athamas , Drury. The latter is a 
handsome species that apparently varies with the season; by a per¬ 
verse ingenuity Moore concocted anagrams of the type name, and 
gave them to the different forms —samatha and hamasta! Of 
Rahinda sinuata I saw several; Neptis jumba was rather common, 
N. varmona abundant. Precis iphita was plentiful, but I saw no 
more than two P. lemonias, one of them, a male, was settled with 
half-opened wings. Cuphaplacida was common, it flies fast, looking 
on the wing much yellower than it is; it was once seen to orient 
with its wings half-open, but on another occasion to settle in the 
shade with its wings up. The bizarre Cethosia nietneri was almost 
common, one day I took three males within a few minutes, all at the 
same spot. I saw the female of Cynthia asela , and took several 
males. Wet sand attracted the male, Lantana blossoms the female 
of Hypolimnas bolina, she doubtless finding the latter sweeter and 
more fruity; the male of Atella phalantha was also thirsty. Both 
sexes of Ergolis taprobana were taken. On February 13th, I saw 
a Limenitis procris, Cram., race calidasa, Moore, at wet sand, and 
missed another at Lady Macarthy’s Drive, Kandy, three days later. 
Though a number of species of Blues were taken at Haragama, 
they could not be said to be very plentiful. Of many kinds but 
single examples were met with, viz. Nacaduba atrata and Castalius 
decidia; Neopithecops zalmora; Megisba malaya, Horsf.; Cyanirispuspa, 
