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form, ranges from the southern banks of the Ganges and Jumna Rivers, 

 through parts of the Gangetic Provinces, the Dukhun and the Carnatic 

 down to the Malabar coast according to Hutton, while Blanford gives 

 its distribution as South-western Bengal, Orissa, Central Provinces, 

 Bombay, Guzerat, Southern Rajputana and part of the Northwest 

 Provinces to Kattiwar and probably to Cutch, but not to Sind or the 

 Punjaub. Although well known for so long a period the range of this 

 species is still somewhat in doubt, on account of its having been intro- 

 duced into various places, such as "Colonies found near certain Hindu 

 shrines, as Muttra in the North-west Provinces and Kishnagurh in 

 Bengal," and probably in other localities. From Nellore in the north 

 to the Coromandel Coast and the Carnatic, the Wynaad, and also on 

 the eastern slopes of the Nilgiri Hills up to 6,000 feet, and from 

 Northern Ceylon to the Kandyan Hills in the south P. priamus is met 

 with. On the western side of the peninsula, on the Malabar coast to 

 Cape Comorin, P. hypoleuca has been observed up to 1,200 feet. On 

 the higher parts of the Western Ghats, from the Wynaad to Cape 

 Comorin, and on the Nilgiri, Palnai, and Animali Hills, in all of 

 which it is abundant, P. johni is found, but not below 2,500 feet. 

 Besides the species already mentioned Ceylon also contains P. cepha- 

 LOLOPTERA generally distributed, but not above 1,200 feet; P. monti- 

 COLA in the mountains of the Kandyan Provinces, and P. ursina in 

 the mountains of southern parts near Nuwarra Eliya. Passing now 

 to the east of the Bay of Bengal, P. pileata is met with in Assam and 

 hills to the south of the valley, Sylhet, Tipperah, Chittagong, northern 

 Arakan, and part of Upper Burma, but is not known to go into Tenas- 

 serim. In the Bassein district of Pegu, and in Arakan, and south to 

 around Moulmein, Tenasserim, P. phayrei is met with; and in the 

 Tipperah Hills south to Mount Muleyit, in Tenasserim, and in Upper 

 Burma on the Irawady above Mandalay, and in the Kakhyen Hills 

 P. BARBEi ranges. At Cadu Ciaung, Bhamo, North Burma, P. mela- 

 MERA was taken, its range unknown. In Tenasserim at Bankasun P. 

 FEMORALis has its most northern range, going south through the Malay 

 Peninsula, and is also found on Mount Ophir in Sumatra. On Mount 

 Muleyit, at 5,000 feet elevation extending eastward into Siam P. 

 OBSCURUS has been observed, and also on Mount Muleyit P. crepus- 

 CULA was taken. In Siam at Pachebon P. c. wroughtoni was procured, 

 and in the same kingdom, range unknown, P. si.\mensis is found, and 

 also P. GERMAiNi, the latter going to Cochin China. At Lang Bian, 



