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Ella, 3250 ft. above sea-level (8 miles from Banclarawela). 
March 13th, 1908. 
If the view from the World’s End is positively awe-inspiring, and 
that from the mouth of the railway tunnel so startling as almost 
to take away one’s breath, that from the Rest-house at Ella is 
picturesque in the highest degree. 
A gap between two mountains affords an outlook over the palm- 
groves on the plain, which loses itself in the soft blue distance where 
lies the sea some fifty miles away. A waterfall in a wooded gorge 
that cleaves the rugged mountains on the right gives an almost 
theatrical completeness to the scene. It is altogether a place at 
which we would gladly have stayed for days instead of hours. 
Yphthima ceylonica , not to be found in any of the higher country, 
was here fairly common, it was accompanied by Mycalesis polydecta . 
One Precis orithyia and one P. iphita, a male, were all that I saw of 
the genus; Neptis varmona , Atella phalantha , and a solitary Ergolis 
taprobana were the only other Hymphalines, as Crastia asela was the 
only Danaine. 
The common Blues of the place appeared to be Everes parrhasius 
and Zizera otis , while on the scarlet flowers of Woodfordia fioribunda 
Salisb., I took a second specimen of Spindasis elima , from which 
some foe had symmetrically removed the anal angles of the hind- 
wings together with their appendages. 
Terias libythea and Jiecabe were both common. There were a few 
Papilios about, the only one that came within reach being aristo - 
lochiae. 
Aroa subnotata flew swiftly along the road at 2 p.m. The Dung- 
beetle, Copris sodalis , Walk., and some Ants were found under stones. 
Nuwara Eliya, 6210 ft. above sea-level. 
March 14th and 15th, 1908. 
As in all properly constituted “Hill Stations” in the East, 
Mu war a Eliya centres in a racecourse. There is no doubt about the 
Briton carrying his civilization with him in an open, not to say 
assertive, way. The whole district constitutes one vast park, but 
this has not checked the introduction of the Eucalyptus, Wattle, and 
other Australian trees, as well as the Californian Gupressus macrocarpus 
and the more humble Gorse—all of which seemed to me singularly 
out of place, jarring notes in the landscape. It must, however, be 
