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CEYLON 
Hatton. 
March 3rd—10th, 1908. 
Hatton, lying just below Kotagala, or The Duke’s Nose, a 
prominent mountain which forms a conspicuous object from many 
points on the railway, is a chief town of the tea-country. Kotagala 
is capped with a surviving patch of forest: it was in its dampest 
glades that I made my first intimate acquaintance with the dread 
Land Leech: a restlessly active, pushing, over-familiar, blood-thirsty 
animal that I never wish to see again. 
A few things came to the lights of the hotel; the Boarmiid, 
Tephrina parallelaria, Walk.; the Pyrale, Bostra castanoptera, 
Moore ; the Cram bite, Poujadia inficita , Walk.; the tiny white 
Hydrocampid, Mixophila renatusalis , Walk. (Orambus ermineus , 
Moore) and the Chafer, Anomala walkeri, Arrow. 
Xylocopa tenuiscapa, a female, turned up in our bedroom, but 
that I presume was an accident. 
In or about the hotel garden I took Terias hecabe and T. libythea , 
also a female of Pademma sinhala , Moore, which had an acetic 
odour. A very old friend was also there, Pyrameis cardui, an insect 
that I had not met with in Ceylon previously. The two-tailed 
Geometer, Epiblema obscitraria, Moore, spread out upon a dark stone 
closely resembled in colour a piece of lichen. 
In the tea-gardens between the hotel and the forest Catopsilia 
pomona, Gatophaga paulina and Argynnis hyperbius, Johanns. ( niphe , 
Linn.) were occasionally to be seen. It was noted at the time that 
though the male hyperbius looked on the wing like the Fritillary 
that it is, its female was actually netted for Danaida chrysippus. 
In the drying-house a Hister was found under wood. A fly, Bhinia 
sp., frequented the flowers of the tea plant. 
Naturally enough I spent most of my time in the forest, and this 
in spite of the haunting terror of leeches. The summit of Kotagalla 
is perhaps 1000 ft. above the hotel; one day I climbed up for some 
distance, but as insects got less and less common with the altitude, 
was not encouraged to persevere. The only Danaines met with 
were Grastia asela and Ghittira fumata y Butl. ( taprobana , Feld.), 
neither of them in any numbers, but the latter interested me 
inasmuch as I thought I saw it in the same place in 1904. 1 
The only Satyrs were single examples (both females) of Lethe 
drypetis y Hew., and L. daretis, Hew. (though at least one other of 
1 See p. 118. 
