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Pun River, in January " (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1890, 524). " Three males and two females 

 recorded from Tavoy and Ponsekai, by Mr. Wood-Mason " (J. A. S. Beng. 1887, 425). 

 It also occurs at " Perak, Malacca, and Province Wellesley in the Malay 

 Peninsula, and Penang, where I found that old fallen fruit was an attraction to 

 this species, and sliced pineapple placed at the proper season in a road which these 

 butterflies frequented was generally sure to be visited by a good supply of both 

 sexes" (Distant, Rbop. Malay. 114). Mr. A. R. Wallace also took it in Malacca, 

 and the late Dr. Theodore Cantor took it in Penang. Colonel C. Swinhoe (Tr. Ent. 

 Soc. 1893, 284) records it from Nias, Sumatra, and Borneo. Mr. H. 0. Forbes 

 obtained it in Sumatra. Dr. L. Martin says it " was a yevj common species in 

 Deli, N.E. Sumatra, before the extension of the tobacco cultivation destroyed nearly 

 the whole of the forests. It occurred round nearly every house, and both sexes 

 were easily captured on the kitchen-midden, especially on discarded fragments of 

 fruit thrown out by the Chinese cook. It is still very common behind the house of 

 the manager of the Tandjong Djatti Estate, where there is still left a small forest of 

 teak (' djatti ' in Malay) trees. It occurs from November to March, never in high 

 virgin forest, not at a greater elevation than Bekantschan. The female is called 

 the ' golden-spot butterfly 'by Europeans in the Straits Settlements. It settles with 

 wide open spread wings, at least when feeding. Dr. Dohrn has bred it at 

 Soekaranda. Males from the mountains are on the underside of both wings far 

 darker than specimens from the plains, and a little bluish in hue " (de Niceville, 

 J. A. S. Beng. 1895, 421). It is also recorded from Java. It has been taken at 

 Banjermasin, Borneo ; and Mr. W. B. Pryer (Ann. N. H. 1887, 62) records it as 

 " abundant in Sandakan, N. Borneo ; frequenting forest paths, where the tree-tops 

 have closed overhead, or other somewhat open places in the forest. Masticated 

 sugar-cane left in such places attracts it by dozens." Mr. D. Cator possesses 

 specioaens from Sandakan taken in January, February, June, and July. We have 

 specimens from Sarawak. It is also recorded from Mindora, Philippines, in 

 Semper's Reisen Phil. Lep. p. 94. 



ADOLIAS KHASIANA (Plate 214, figs. 1, la, b, c, S ? )• 



Sijmphcsdra Khasiana, Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1893, p. 284. 

 Symphadra Dirlea (part), de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 189. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark purpurescent blue-black ; cilia alternated with 

 white. Forewiag with a submarginal slender lunular blue-speckled band decreasing 

 from the base and vanishing before the apex, the blue speckles also extending very 

 slightly along the edges of the submedian and median veins to their tips ; a very 

 small bluish-white speckled spot before the apex ; occasionally the lower cell 



