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There was a storm at Simla on October 10th, and a few 

 trifling showers during our expedition to Baghi, but wo 

 saw no sign of rain after that, and indeed scarcely a cloud, 

 save at Kurseong, until January 14th, when there was a 

 thunderstorm at Jhansi. There were then several very 

 slight falls of rain terminating with a long but not heavy 

 rain on January 23rd. There was a very slight fall at 

 Konur on the night February 29th — March 1st. Then no 

 further rain till Kandy, March 10th. There were several 

 showers in Ceylon. 



At Simla the effects of the monsoon were not quite past, 

 and wet-season forms were slightly more numerous than 

 dry; the same applies to Ceylon. At all the other places, 

 as might have been expected, dry^season forms predomin- 

 ated. Calcutta occupies an intermediate position. 



It must however be admitted that to prove a species to 

 be dimorphic is not neoessarily to prove that the forms are 

 associated with seasons, In the genus Precis, so far as my 

 very few observations (limited to the dry season) are worth 

 anything, the two forms oceljated. and non-ocellated s,eera 



