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ocelli on the fore wings, and three on the hind wings. The ground colour 

 of the underside is a dark fulvus, the ocelli which are chestnut in colour, 

 are surrounded by a black ring with white pupils. 



Since writing the above I have received another specimen. 



For the information of collectors who do not know this butterfly, I add 

 the original description by Lord Rothschild in the Annals and Magazine] 

 Nat. Hist. (8), Vol. XVII, p. 474. 



" S • This very distinct species is nearest to St, cambodia, Hew. 



Ujyper surface. — Head brownish rufous ; antennte rufous ; thorax and 

 abdomen greyish brown, abdomen washed with blackish. Fore wing : 

 basal half greenish steel-blue washed with olive-brown on costal area 

 and from the base distad ; outer half greenish white or white tinged, with 

 Nile-green ; terminal band, apex, and submarginal row of large, excised 

 patches black-brown washed with steel-blue ; a postmedian band of dark 

 greenish steel-blue chevrons joined into a chainlike band. Hind wing 

 similar, only the submarginal band of excised patches is replaced by a 

 second row of chevrons and the white ground of the outer half of the 

 wing is strongly suffused with greenish lavender-blue. Underside very 

 similar to that of combodia, but much darker ; all the lines and other 

 markings much sharper and the double submarginal bands deep brown. 



Length of fore wing 72 mm., expanse 151 mm." 



O. C. OLLENBACH. 



Dehra Dun, 28^ April 1919. 



No. XXXII.— OCCURRENCE OF COLOTIS VESTALIS 

 AND AM ATA AT UNAO. 



On 3rd May this year at Unao (38 miles S. W. of Lucknow) while inves- 

 tigating a plot of babul jungle known locally as the " Babuli " for birds' 

 nests I came across two kinds of Colotis that I had not personally taken 

 before. 



I took the first opportunity I could of revisiting the spot and on the 6th 

 took a number of what proved to be Colotis vestalis. Most of them 



