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edge of the wing-cases raised and angled anteriorly, tbe thorax humped, and 

 marked, like the abdominal segments, with some dark brown waved lines and 

 spots " {de Niceville). 



Habitat. — India, Burma. 



Reaeing of Wet and Dry-Season Brood from the Egg. — Mr. L. de Xiceville 

 (Journ. Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1886, 231) gives the first recorded instance of 

 rearing both the wet and dry-season brood of this species from the egg, as follows : 

 — " On September 5th, 1885, Captain 0. A. E. Sage, of the 18th Bengal Infantry, 

 sent me in a tin box with a gauze cover seven live females which had that day been 

 caught. When I received them they had laid over 70 eggs of a beautiful light 

 green colour on the gauze cover, and two on the side of the box. On September 

 9th, larvje commenced to emerge, and I placed the gauze on which the eggs were 

 laid amongst some grass growing in a pot, covering the whole with a large wooden 

 box with glass sides. The larvEe rapidly fed up, and turned to pupiB, the imagines 

 emerging between October 19th and 25th, as true Y. Hiibneri like their mothers. 

 The pujsas were sometimes green, sometimes brown. On my return on November 

 8th from my autumn holiday in the Sikkim Hills, Captain Sage gave me six about 

 half-grown larvae, which he had hatched on October 20th from eggs laid by 

 y. Eilbneri on the loth. Being few in number, these larvse were fed up by me in a 

 stoppered glass jar, fresh grass being supplied about every other day. The first 

 of them changed to a pupa on November 20th, and the imago emerged on December 

 7th ; on November 22nd, another larva changed to a pupa, the imago emerging 

 December 9th ; on November 25th, two more larvae changed to pupse, the imagines 

 emerging December 12th; on December 3rd, another larva changed to a pupa, the 

 imago emerging December 19th ; on December 12th, the last larva changed to a 

 pupa, the imago emerging on January 1st. All the pupae were green, and all the 

 imagines were true T. Hoivra. The colour of the pupa does not, I believe, affect 

 the imago in the least ; it is purely protective, the green ones in nature being pro- 

 bably attached to the green blades of grass, while the brown ones occur on the 

 dark-coloured stems near the roots. Captain Sage first took Y. Hoivra on 

 November ISth, at a time when a few Y. Huhneri were still on the wing, this being 

 the earliest date on which he captured the cold and dry-season non-ocellated form 

 of this species." 



Distribution. — From North- Western India, specimens are recorded (Butt. 

 Ind. i. 228) from Chumba. Mr. W. Doherty obtained it in " Kumaon, at Bag- 

 heswar, Rambagh, and at Kapkot, at from 1000 to 4000 feet elevation " (J. A. S. 

 Beng. 1886, 120). Mr. G. F, Hampson has the wet-season form from Naini Tal, 

 1000 feet, taken by Col. A. M. Lang in October. In the North-East, Mr. H. J. 

 Elwes (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 326) says it " occurs in the Sikkim Terai during the 



