304 Mr. H. J. Elwes’ catalogue of the 
This wide-ranging species is not common in Sikkim, 
but occurs in the Terai and up to 8000 ft. Medus is the 
rainy season form, which oceurs from May to September, 
and runeka from October to March, though, as I said in 
speaking of the last species, there may be occasional 
instances of either forms being taken out of season. 
M. runeka seems more abundant than medus, which is 
rather an insect of the plains than the hills. 
20. Mycalesis mineus. 
Papilio mineus, Linn., Syst. Nat., i., pt. 2, p. 768 
(1767). 
Mycalesis mineus, Butt. Ind., i., p. 117. 
M. visala, Moore, Cat. K.1.C., 1., p. 280 (1877). 
M. perseus var. visala, Butt. Ind., i., p. 121, t. xvi., 
fig. 62,3; 
Calysisme indistans, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 
1880, p. 164. 
Mycalesis perseus var. indistans, Butt. Ind., i., p. 122. 
M. mineus, visala et indistans, de Nice., J.A.8.B., 
1886, p. 235. 
Mr. de Nicéville’s recent experiments in breeding have 
thrown some light on the seasonal forms of this difficult 
species in Calcutta, but I cannot say to what extent his 
conclusions are borne out in the different climate of 
Sikkim. Moller, however, has little doubt that M. visala 
is the dry-weather form, and finds it commonly from the 
Terai up to about 5000 ft., at the end of the rains and on 
to December. Muineus he takes at the same elevations 
from April to September, and he does not distinguish 
indistans from it at all. I hardly think that the various 
broods will prove to be constantly distinguishable from 
.each other, except in localities where the seasons are 
better marked than in Sikkim. 
21. Mycalesis anaxias. 
Mycalesis anavias, Hew., Ex. Butt., iii., Myc., t. iv., 
figs. 25, 26 (1862), ¢; Butt. Ind., p. 106, t. xvii., 
fig. 54, 3g. 
Not uncommon in the hot valleys up to 8000 ft. during 
the greater part of the year. 
