62 LEPIDOPTEEA IJSIDICA. 



Sittang, in Tenasserim, in January, tlie Shan States, in January, and from Tilin Yaw, 

 in February, March, and May. In the Britisli Museum collection is tlie type specimen 

 of Y. Marshallii — the dry-season form, from Mepley, Tenasserim. 



We have not seen any specimens of true Baldus from either the "Western or 

 Eastern Himalayas. Marshall and de Niceville (Butt, of India, p. 216) state that it 

 " is found in the "Western Himalayas in July; in Sikkim, from July to December; 

 in Shillong, in March, April, and May, and again in July ; in Lower and Eastern 

 Bengal it is very common from May to July, and again in November, and probably 

 throughout the year ; in Cachar, Mr. "Wood-Mason took it in profusion from April 

 to October; from Arakan, Pegu, Tenasserim, and the Mergui Archipelago, from 

 October to March ; specimens from Khandalla and the Coessi Grhat, in the South 

 Konkan, were taken by Mr. G. Vidal at the end of March ; and from Travancore, 

 by Mr. H. Fergusson, at 2000 feet elevation, in March and April. It is found not 

 uncommonly in the Ashamboo Hills, in Travancore, in the extreme south of the 

 Peninsula, and through the Wynaad along the Western Ghats as far as Khandalla. 

 We have no certain record of its occurrence on the East coast or in the Dekkan, 

 though it probably will be found in suitable localities throughout the Peninsula and 

 Central India. We have specimens from Manbhoom and Orissa, and in Lower 

 Bengal, Eastern Bengal, and Assam it is one of the commonest species. In the 

 Himalayas, also, it is found as far West as Chumba, and probably throughout the 

 range Eastward ; in Sikkim it is not uncommon ; it is found in the Khasia and Naga 

 Hills, Cachar, and in Arakan, Pegu, and Tenasserim." 



Mr. W. Doherty (Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1886, 120) records its capture "in the 

 Kuraaon "V^alleys up to 6000 feet elevation." In Sikkim, according to Mr. H. J. 

 Elwes (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, 325), it is "the commonest species of the genus at 

 low elevations, fi-om the Terai up to about 5000 feet. In the rains it is more abun- 

 dant, and the form with ocelli well-marked is then the only one found, but the species 

 occurs during the whole year in greater or less numbers ; the cold-weather brood, 

 which has the ocelli small or obsolete, agrees very well with those which Mr. de 

 Nic6vilie has bred from eggs of rhilomela in Calcutta." Mr, J. A. Bethara (Journ. 

 Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, 158) says " the Yphthimas are generally found fluttering 

 about where there is grass, and flying in and amongst the stems ; they are feeble 

 little things, and not difficult to capture." 



Distribution Outside Indian Area. — Mr. W. L. Distant, in " Rhop. Malayana," 

 p. 56, has described and figured (pi. 6, fig. 9) this species (Baldus) erroneously as 

 the Y. Methora of Hewitson, and on p. 57, pi. 4, fig. 6, has also described and 

 figured a variety of the species as Y. NeivholJi, both being from Malacca and Pro- 

 vince Wellesley in the Malay Peninsula. Specimens of both sexes are also in the 

 British Museum collection from Penung. In our own collection are examples from 

 Malacca, Singapore, Sumatra, and Borneo. 



