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admitted that the anglicizing process has been very complete in 
Nuwara Eliya. Even the well-kept church with its trim flower beds 
has quite an English look, inside and out. The seven windows in 
the apse, filled by a fine series of designs by James Powell, 1 give a 
cool, soothing, green tone to the interior, constituting one of the 
most successful pieces of modern decoration that I know. 
Nuwara Eliya has perhaps a Scottish rather than an English look, 
and this was intensified by the little monsoon which brought 
deluges of rain each afternoon. 
At the times of my two visits, in 1904 and 1908, this locality struck 
me as an entomological desert, but I feel convinced that at other 
times of the year it must be more productive. 
The top of One-tree Hill, a few hundred feet above the hotel, 
was the most productive spot I reached. This was the only place 
in Ceylon where I met with Pyrameis indica, Herbst, of which I saw 
several, one much battered. Its flight is quicker than that of our 
Bed Admiral, but less graceful. Argynnis hyperbius was common 
on the same ground. Cyaniris lanka and Polyommatus baeticus 
helped to keep the place lively, as did Baracus mttatus, though the 
grass had no claim to that swampy quality which that Skipper seems 
to love. A few Ghittira fumata and Terms heeabe turned up, as well 
as a pretty Gelechiid, Tipha brochias , Meyrk. I spent some time 
over a large Ely, a species of Dexia , a noisy creature which was hard 
to see flying in the sunshine, but easy to capture when settled 
on “ Nelus ” (the general native name of the rank undergrowth), 
whenever the sun was covered by a cloud. I secured 4 and 1 $, and 
found that the National Collection had 2 $ only, from Ceylon, un¬ 
named. Three Passalid beetles of the genus Chilomazus were found 
under a log. The Heteromeron, Apogonia coriacea y Waterh., and a 
large specimen of the Lithosiid, Asura solita, visited the hotel lights. 
A visit to lovely Hakgala was spoiled by deluges of rain y the 
slow-flying Ghittira fumata was dancing about round the Yernonia 
at the old spot a little above the entrance to the Botanic Garden. 2 
Cyaniris lanka and Ghilades laius occurred close by. An Anomala 
(Lamellicorn) was taken flying in the sun, and Mrs. Longstaff 
found at the roots of grass a very striking Chrysomelid, Sphaerolma 
templetoni , Baly; it has a metallic blue thorax and elytra like new 
mahogany. 
We steamed up the Malabar Coast in perfect weather ip 
I ^ recognized the hand of this artist at the first glance. 
? ge@ ahqve, p. 118, 6 
