Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Excerpt from The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1
These gardens were, I believe, made by the-east India Company for the benefit of their servants, but since the mutiny they have been kept up by a grant from Government. Here, with great care and constant at tention, a certain amount of grass struggles for existence, and is laid out in lawns and terraces while a few rose trees and other plants do their best to contend against adverse circumstances, which frequently prove too much for them.
In such a spot, then, did I, in May, 1886, first start collecting Indian butterflies, and shortly afterwards became possessed of De Niceville's Butterflies of India, and when I read the first line of the preface, India, the land of sunshine, is the land of butterflies, I quite agreed as to the sunshine, but where were the butterflies?
It will be seen that my list only includes some thirty species, and even of these some are represented by single specimens only. I really do not think that a longer residence in that delectable spot would have produced any more. I have added a few notes to each species.
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