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were in abundance, and among the others were a male Chamxes 
fabius, several Tarucus plinius, all males, as well as a male of the 
beautiful and very distinct Curetis thetis, Drury. In the bed of a 
small stream two or three miles north of Dambulla, I saw a Papilio 
jason , Esp. ( telephus , Feld.) on the wet sand, struck at it, netted it, 
but with the same swoop netted also three Catopsilia pomona, one 
Huphina nerissa , and eleven Caiophaga paulina ! Numbers of the 
little Nacaduba ardates were about a tiny puddle in the path. 
The only moths met with at Dambulla were the day-flying 
Deilemera coleta and the Geometers, Alana capitata, Walk., and the 
purplish-grey Timandra mundissima , Walk., the latter in the rest- 
house at night, where it was accompanied by the Chafer Phyllognathus 
dionysius, Fabr. The Elater Melanotus hirticornis was clinging to the 
mosquito-curtain of my bed, having been in all probability attracted 
by light the night before. Inside the same curtains I found the 
Pentatomid bug Megymenum brevicorne , Fabr., a tuberculated brown 
creature with short flat antennae; whether this insect had merely 
taken advantage of a convenient resting-place, or whether he had an 
evil design upon the writer, I am unaware, but if the latter, all I 
can say is that he was anticipated. A few other bugs whose actions 
were less open to suspicion were the brilliant scarlet and black 
Eeduviid, Sphedanolestes nigro-ruber, a rare insect; another Keduviid, 
the handsome, large, shining, blue-black Physorrhynchus linnaei , Stal, 
which has the underside and the margins of the abdomen brilliant 
scarlet, the antennae of the male are hairy; it exhales a pungent 
acetic odour, quite unlike that so commonly met with in Pentatomids. 
I found my specimen under a log. Yet another Keduviid, Velitra 
rubro-picta, Am. & Serv., was found under the bark of a log in the 
compound of the Kest-house; it is a somewhat variable bug, my 
specimen lacking the usual red pigmentation. 
A few beetles were turned up from under logs: the Tenebrionids, 
Pseudoblaps clavipes, Walk., and two specimens of another species of 
the genus; a Carabid of the genus Omphria ; Platysoma desinens, 
Walk., and Taeniolobus sp. Mrs. Longstaff found a specimen of 
Trachypholis hispidus , Web., near the Kock Temple. I also came 
across the Phytophagid, Apopliylia pallipes, Jac., 1 and the plant¬ 
eating Ladybird, Epilachna indica, Muls. A native child brought 
me a living specimen of the large, brilliant, metallic, emerald-green 
Sternocera sternicornis, Linn. ; it is a well-known Buprestid which I 
feel sure that I had seen more than once in Lady Horton’s Drive; 
1 I had heard of Martin Jacoby’s death from Mr. Green but a few days previously. 
Shortly before sailing I had promised to get him some Phytophaga. 
