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Hasitat.—Throughout India; Ceylon; Burma; Andaman and Nicobar Isles ; 
Malay Peninsula. 
Dimorruic Spectuen oF Fematy with the markings peculiar to both seasonal 
forms occurring in the same specimen.—A specimen of the female, from Berhampur, 
Ganjam District, Madras, taken in October by Capt. E. Y. Watson, has the upper- 
side of both forewings as in the dry-season form (Ismene), with the left-hand 
hindwing of the upperside having the two median ocelli of the same large size as in 
the wet-season form, and the right-hand hindwing with these ocelli minute as in 
dry-season form both on the upper and underside, whereas, the underside of the left- 
hand hindwing have the ocelli large, as in the wet-season form. 
REARING OF THE TWO FORMS OF THIS SPECIES IN Catcurra by Mr. L. de Nicéville. 
In the Journal Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1886, p. 237, Mr. de Nicéville says, ‘I 
did not keep a very exact record of dates in breeding this species, as the transforma- 
tions had been previously recorded, but, from eggs laid by M. Leda in August, I 
bred, on September 6th, a female of M. Leda; on the 7th another female; on the 
8th two female M. Ismene, one with distinct ocelli and therefore an intergrade 
between M. Leda and M. Ismene, though nearer the latter ; on September 9th one 
male and two females of M. Ismene; on September 10th three males and four 
females of M. Ismene, several of which are intergrades, and one male of M. Leda; 
on September 11th two males and one female (the latter a highly ocellated specimen) 
of M. Ismene; and on September 12th one male of M. Isimene; the total result 
being that from nineteen pupe bred from eggs laid by true M. Leda I obtained 
three specimens (1 ¢ 2 ?) like the mother, and sixteen specimens (7 ¢ 9 ?) of 
M. Ismene, several of which, though transitional forms, were yet all nearer to M. 
Ismene than to M. Leda. My efforts to breed a second generation failed, all the 
specimens dying without coupling or laying eggs.” 
Description of the larve of the wet-season brood, reared from the egg, in Lucknow, 
1860, by the late Capt. H. L. de la Chaumette: “ Larva; After first moult, two- 
fifths of an inch long; ground-colour grass-green; dorsal line well-defined, dark- 
green ; lateral line broad and interrupted, yellow, placed close over the legs; anal 
segment terminating in two long pointed tails, giving it a forked appearance ; 
abdomen and legs green; head large, blue-green, circled with deep carmine and 
having on the top two long appendages, like little horns, of the same colour; the 
carmine does not quite circle the head, the part where the circle is incomplete 
being the space between the two horns; on either side of the head is a milky streak 
bordering the carmine circle. Head and horns, hairy; body rugose, from being 
covered with yellow piliferous spots. After last moult: Length 1 inch; cylindrical, 
tapering much posteriorly and a little anteriorly ; rugose; ground-colour and general 
characters as after first moult. Feeds on the leaves of Saccharum Ravenne. 
vou. I. R 
