Observed in a tour through India and Ceylon. 148 
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Precis alinana 4 1 
Eee ces Ct Ae oD 21,2 
Mycalesis mandata . ahve Se Ieee | oe | ae 
Catopsilia pyranthe 2 | | 
ay pomona  . Pillar Wiss 2 | Ca Ceylon, March 
Txias pyrene. : al eee enced ere || agelie lioor 10-26, 1904. 
Terias hecabe ; tall Pit: Soli Co-hal Tbe Melba es Iheb Several showers. 
5) CeBla ea! 
Raphin Nerissa, é ; aa oes | WAV ope i 
Catophaga paulina | 2 | 2 
ToTAL . 5 33] 4] 6 ora 
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There was a storm at Simla on October 10th, and a few 
trifling showers during our expedition to Baghi, but we 
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 
shght 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 Ist. 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 necessarily 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 ocellated and non-ocellated seem 
