SATYRINZE. 123 
Madras by the late Sir Walter Elliot, and reproduced from his original drawings ; 
fig. la is the larva and pupa reproduced from Mr. L. de Nicéville’s figure in Journ. 
Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1886, pl. 12, fig. 4; plate 123, figs. 1, a, b, c, d, e, 
represents the male and female of the dry-season form. 
DistRIBUTION WITHIN INDIAN AREA.—This species is extremely common in many 
parts of the country, and has a very wide range. It is found throughout India, 
and occurs in the Himalayas at low elevations; also Upper and Lower Burma, 
Tenasserim, the Mergui Archipelago, Andaman and Nicobar Isles, and Ceylon. “ It 
is on the wing more or less throughout the year. The upperside is fairly constant 
in coloration throughout its range, some specimens, however, having the ground- 
colour darker than others ; but the underside of the dry-season form varies strangely 
even in the same locality, and in their markings and tints they harmonize so com- 
pletely with the autumnal coloration of decaying vegetation, that, when settled 
amongst dead leaves and dried-up grass, it is almost impossible to see them” (Butt. 
of India, 1. 257). 
We possess specimens from Cashmere, taken by the late Capt. Bayne Reed, 
and from the N.-W. Himalayas. ‘“ Mr. C. J. Rodgers took the dry-season form 
below Dalhousie. In the neighbourhood of Simla Mr. L. de Nicéville took two 
specimens only in four years’ collecting. The Indian Museum, Calcutta, has a single 
specimen from Masuri’’ (Butt. of India, i. 257). Mr. W. Doherty took it in the 
“Tarai and low valleys of Kumaon up to 4000 feet, capturing the wet-season form 
in August and September, and the dry-season form in October and November ”’ 
(Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1886, 120). The Rev. J. H. Hocking obtained it in 
the Kangra District. We possess specimens from General G. Ramsay’s Nepal 
Collection, ‘‘ the wet-season form being rare in the Valley of Nepal, but the dry- 
season form is very common in the rice-fields”” (Ramsay’s MS. Notes). Mr. H. J. 
Elwes (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, 328) says, ‘“‘it occurs in Sikkim all the year round 
at low elevations, and I have taken the wet-season form in July as high as 7000 
feet, but it is not so common in Sikkim as in the plains.” Capt. A. M. Lang (Ent. 
Mo. Mag. 1864, 182) records “ both broods common in Oudh and Umballa, always 
flitting about under the shade of trees, or lurking in long grass. I reared the larve 
on Saccharum Ravenne.’ At Saugor, Capt. H. L. de la Chaumette (Ann. N. H. 
1865, 37) found the dry-season form ‘‘more common of the two. They fly at 
sunset under the Neem trees (Azadirachta indica), resting for a long time motionless 
on the ground, and will not move until you almost tread upon them, when they will 
fly away in great haste and return to the same spot, chiefly some favourite stone.” 
Capt. H. B. Hellard took it at Allahabad. Major J. Le Mesurier, R.E., obtained it 
in Sind, Capt. Lloyd in Kattywar, and Col. C. Swinhoe (P. Z. 8. 1884, 504) records 
‘‘both forms are apparently common in places in the interior of Karachi; LI have 
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