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Bbotan. Two males of dry-season form from Tuckoor, Darjiling, 4500 feet, are in 

 Mr. "W. Rothschild's collection. Mr. de Niceville records it from " Bombay ; 

 Kandeish District ; Malda ; Bangalore ; Calicut ; Trevandrum ; Orissa ; Calcutta ; 

 Silhet ; Cachar ; Assam ; and Sikkini " (Butt, of India, ii. 95). Mr. G. F. Harapson 

 records it from the " Nilgiris, Eurymene as the dry-season form of Varmona, and 

 Swinhoei as a variety" (J. A. S. Bengal, 1888, 353). Mr. H. S. Ferguson found it 

 "common in the Travancore Hills and Plains all the year round" (J. Bombay 

 N. H. Soc. 1891. 8). Capt. B. Y. Watson records "numerous specimens of Varmona 

 from Kathlekan, Mysore, taken in November, December, and January, and of 

 Swinhoei a few specimens in December, and at Gorsoppa Falls in January " 

 (J.Bombay N". H. S. 1890, 4). Capt. Watson also records the wet form (Varmona) 

 " from Madras, taken in April and August " (J. A. S. Beng. 1890, 266). In Ceylon, 

 Capt. Hutchison found it " widely distributed, occurring in the Hills and Plains, 

 both in forest and cultivated land all the year" (Lep. Ceylon, i. 54). The specimen 

 of the aberration, named disrupta, was taken at Ambegamoa, iu the Central Province 

 of Ceylon, by Mr. F. M. Mack wood. 



Habits of Imago. — " This is by far the commonest and most widely spread of the 

 genus. It may be found in any month of the year and anywhere (in the N. Kanara 

 District of Bombay), frequenting gardens and cultivated land" (J.Davidson and 

 E. H. Aitken, J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1896, 251). "It is common in Bombay and 

 Poona after the Monsoon, and still more so on the Hills as late as March. It 

 frequents gardens and hedges, and has a characteristic flight, steady and straight, 

 with jerky strokes of its wings, between which they remain stiffly expanded" (E. H. 

 Aitken, id. 1886, 133). In Ceylon, Capt. Hutchison found it " widely distributed. 

 Flight slow, floating, ahghts on bushes with wings generally, if not always, open " 

 (Lep. Ceylon, i. 54). 



Food-Plant op Larva. — According to the observations of Messrs. Davidson 

 and Aitken, made in the N. Kanara District of Bombay, " the larva feeds on various 

 Peas " (J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1896, 251). 



Of the illustrations of this species on our Plate 276, fig. 1 represents the larva 

 and pupa from Mr. S. N. Ward's original drawing made in Kanara; figs. 1, la, b, 

 c, d, the male and female type specimen of Kaiiuiriqja (dry-season), and figs, le, f, 

 g, h, the male and female types of Varmona (wet-season). 



NEPTIS ANDAMANA. 



Nepfis Andamana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 58G. de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 94 

 (1886). 



Dry-season brood (Plate 277, fig. 1, la, b, c, (^ ? ). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside black ; markings white, prominent. Forewing with 



