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settled under a leaf; there can be no doubt that this habit is an effec¬ 
tive mode of protection. Another large black Skipper, similarly 
concealed, was netted, but managed to get away. The same day the 
handsome Tagiades obscurus (distans , Moore) was seen settled on the 
tapper surface of a leaf with wings expanded; on a previous occasion 
a Ilantana settled on the upper surface of a leaf of a Bramble, Rubus 
rugosus, Smith, the prickles of which made the butterfly’s position 
unassailable. 
The Pyrale, Pachyzancla phoeopteralis , was locally abundant by 
the stream. The handsome Tineid, Timyra crassella , Feld. & Bog., 
came to light; it resembles our Phibalocera quercana. The Oecophorid, 
Psaltica monochorda, Meyrk., was taken in the forest and in a tea 
garden. 
The only Aculeate was an undetermined Gerceris. On the other 
hand, Flies were comparatively numerous : Rhinia discolor; a rubbed 
Anthrax ; a brilliant green Psilophus, with a coppery spot on its 
abdomen, not represented at South Kensington; the Syrphid, 
Asarkina ericetorum, Fabr.; and a Tabanid Haematopota unizonata , 
Bicarde, which attacked me one dull afternoon just before rain. 
Turning over stones and logs in the forest, more especially in 
damp places, proved a perilous employment, which indeed the Leeches 
finally forced me to abandon. These things are difficult to explain, 
but it is a fact that I am more frightened of ticks and leeches, insig¬ 
nificant though they appear, than I am of venomous serpents. The 
latter can be put to flight, but the smaller and more insidious foes 
know no fear. 
The Beetles found were a Tenebrionid, a species of Ulma, together 
with the Passalids, Chilomazus comptoni, Kaup., and an unnamed 
species of the same genus. I found upon my net a slender red and 
black Longicorn, an Oberea, represented in the British Museum, but 
undescribed. The Cetoniids, Glinteria plcuronota, Blanch., and Pop- 
illia complanata, Newm., were taken flying about flowers or shrubs. 
Somewhere and somehow at Hatton, for I cannot speak precisely, I 
got a specimen of the Melolonthid, Lachnosterna cingalensis , Brenske. 
The brilliant Ghrysocoris stockerus turned up again. 
At the Devon Falls, circa 4000 ft. above sea-level, and 10 miles 
west of Nuwara Eliya, I took nothing remarkable: Neptis varmona, 
Talicada nyseus, Delias eucharis , Terias hecabe , and Telicota bambusae. 
At Nanu Oya station, 5300 ft., a pale yellowish-brown phyto¬ 
phagous beetle, Lema yerburyi, Jac., flew into the train. 
