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other dimly-lighted places.” Mr. Ossian Limborg (P. Z. 8S. 1878, 826) obtained it 
at ‘* Meetan, 3000 feet elevation, in Upper Tenasserim.” 
A Variety or THE MAte (see our Plate 147, fig. 1) in Mr. F, D. Godman’s 
collection, labelled ‘* East Pegu, March and April, 1890,” taken by Mr. W. Doherty, 
has the upperside much darker brown, the forewing having a conspicuous well- 
defined short broad pale ochreous oblique subapical fascia, followed by broad 
submarginal lunules, similar to those in the female, and the hindwing has both the 
submarginal and marginal fascia also paler. ‘The underside of this male has the 
fascie disposed similarly to those in Honrath’s figure of Perakana. Dr. J. 
Anderson (Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, 33) took ‘‘ both sexes at Thaing, King 
Island, in the Mergui Archipelago, in January. Mr. F. de Roepstorff obtained 
many examples at Port Blair, S. Andamans, these differmg from the normal 
specimens as follows :— 
ANDAMAN FORM. (See our Plate 147, fig. 2, 2.) 
Male. Upperside similar to Burmese examples. Underside paler than both 
Burmese and Malayan, the hindwing possessing a more or less complete series of 
ocelli, instead of the normal single apical and anal ocellus. Female. Upperside 
paler, with the pale fasciz of underside visible. Forewing with a more sharply- 
defined pale ochreous-yellow subapical oblique fascia, slender lower discal lunules, and 
broad submarginal spots. Hindwing with the exterior margin more convex and 
sharply scalloped, and more sharply-defined pale ochreous-yellow discal lunular line, 
submarginal and marginal fascia, the two former being more irregular in their 
course. Underside with the ground-colour conspicuously paler; the transverse 
fasciz similar. Hindwing with a more or less complete series of five ocelli, the 
lower second being of the same size as the upper, the third smaller, the fourth 
incipiently indicated by black scales. Expanse, ¢ 4,9, ¢ 4;%, inches. Specimens 
from the Andaman Islands, agreeing with the above, are.also in the Indian Museum, 
Calcutta, and several of both sexes are in Mr. L. de Nicéville’s collection. 
Distripution ovrsipE our Argea.—Mr, Distant (Rhop. Malay. p. 71) records it 
from the “ Malay Peninsula, Penang, Sumatra, and Billiton.’ Mr. Druce (P. Z. 8. 
1874, 104) gives ‘“‘Chentaboon, Siam, and Borneo.” Dr. Horsfield obtained it 
frequently, and reared their larve, in Java. 
Hasits or Imaco.— Several writers have noted the crepuscular habits of 
A, Phidippus, and it is often found in Cocoanut Palm groves” (Butt. Ind. i. 290). 
Major Adamson (List, p. 10) found it in Akyab, “ frequenting old barns and other 
dimly-lighted places, in November.” ‘‘In the Malay Peninsula, this butterfly 
possesses the local name of ‘Cocoanut Moth,’” and, as Mr. Bigg writes: “it 
delights in shady places, and is especially found about Attap-sheds and on dead 
