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records the species from LoAver Burma, the Karen HillSj Bharao, tlie 

 Shan States and the Upper Chindwin ; his description of the dry- 

 season form does not agree very well with that of Elwes, nor does it 

 agree, as far as I remember, with my Karen Hill specimens which are 

 now in the British Museum, and as his descriptions of both forms 

 agree perfectly with my Upper Chindwin specimens, it seems probable 

 that they were taken from Chindwin specimens ; and I am inclined 

 to believe that the Karen Hill specimens, and probably the Shan Hill 

 ones as well, will be found to belong to a species distinct from the 

 western one. 



The present species wa& excessively local at Kalewa, and was only 

 on the wing in one spot from the middle of April to the middle of 

 May. The dry-season form was probably on the wing in the same 

 locality earlier in the year, but previous to April I had no opportunity 

 of visiting the portion of jungle in which it occurred. The single 

 specimen of the dry-season form obtained at the foot of the hills was 

 caught while I was on the march, and the species probably occurred 

 in some numbers in that locality. 



49. YpTHIMA ASTEROrEj Klug. 



Ten specimens of both sexes of the dry-season form taken at 5,500 

 to 7,000 feet from February to April, and a single male of the rainy- 

 season form at 5,000 feet in May. In some of the dry-season speci- 

 mens the ocelli are only traceable with a glass. 



The specimens differ from typical Y. asterope {Y. mahratta) from 

 the Deccan and Mysore in the obsolescence, and in some cases entire 

 absence, of the brown fascias defining the ocellar space on the underside 

 of the forewing ; this is a noteworthy difference, and I can find 

 no record of its occurrence in specimens from any other locality. 

 The form is, however, not deserving of a name, even as a local race, as 

 in some specimens the ocellar space is almost as clearly defined as in 

 typical Indian specimens, and there is no doubt that in this particular 

 locality the character is a variable one. This species has an immense 

 rano-e occurring from South Africa to China, but as far as the Indian 

 reo-ion is concerned, has not been previously recorded east of Orissa. 

 De Niceville and Elwes consider Y. mahratta^ Moore, to be synonymous 

 with Y. asterope, King, while Moore and Swinhoe are of the opposite 

 opinion ; but neither of the latter have ever pointed out how Y, mahratta 



