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Show 256 MR. H. J. ELWES ON BUTTERFLIES FROM [Apr. 21, where I have often mistaken the butterfly for the cicada, and vice versa, though after death the cicada faded, so that the resemblance is hard to see. I also send Zeuxidia masoni; the fragrance of the male is peculiar but very sweet. I have been unlucky with Cyrestis nivalis, of which I have seen half a dozen. From its extreme timidity I think one can see that it is at the limit of its range, and just maintains itself. In the Apaturidse I got very little of interest. The Stibochiona seems new. It was very rare and confined to the summit at from 4000 to 4500 feet. If you describe it please mention the hairy eyes of this genus; this is its most remarkable feature and not mentioned by Westwood. " A fine pair of Prothoe Caledonia are perhaps the best things I got, no others were seen, but Prothoe angelica was more common and was taken on the body of a dead Python. It is very fragrant in both sexes. There are several Charaxes of the polyxena group, the names of which I do not pretend to know ; also C. durnfordi, of which I am very proud; it is very hard to catch, even more difficult than Prothoe Caledonia. I have noticed enough facts to be confident that timidity is a source of protection. In the Eastern Ghats, where Neptis nandina is rare, I could always tell it from N. varmona a hundred yards off, because it flew away ; but then varmona is like hordonia, a protected species. All the Cliaraxes in the Malayan region are hard to catch, as poor Kunstler used to insist; but there is nothing more helpless than most Charaxes in the Indo-Burmese region. They fly so straight that you can take them on the wing nine times out of ten ; they persistently return to the same spot and love to light on projecting twigs, where you can easily get them by a stroke of the net from below. But that is not the case in the Malayan regions ; I do not know how many hours I spent in the interior of Sumba trying to catch a huge undescribed Charaxes of the pyrrhus group ; and the poly xena group never seem common down there as in India. "I send many males of Neurosigma doubledayi. It seems to me distinct from the Sikkim form, of which I took dozens in the Chittagong hill-tracts, all black and fulvous above. All the Athymas sent are from the high country above 4000 feet. I do not know why." Mr. Doherty then gives a lot of notes about various Lycsenidae, which will be inserted in their places, and shortly afterwards left for the Ruby-Mine district north of Mandalay, whence he wrote from the Injok valley near Bemardmyo, on May 25th, as follows:- " I have been at Bemardmyo at 5400 feet, and here in a hut at Injok since May 2nd ; we had rather an absurd journey. At Thabeit kyin on the Irawadi river the country was wholly parched up, not a green leaf for miles, and the grass on fire everywhere. From there the road goes to Mogouk nearly 70 miles. Transport had broken down, but I managed to borrow two carts, for two of m y Lepchas were sick and could not walk, and hired two pair of bullocks at 35 rupees each. They broke down at a desolate place 12 miles out, where I had to stay two days. Then, luckily for me, General |