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Habitat. — Througliout India; Ceylon; Burma; Andaman and Nicobar Isles; 

 Malay Peninsula. 



DmoKPHic Specimen op Female with tlie markings peculiar to both seasonal 

 forms occurring in the same specimen. — A specimen of the female, from Berhampur, 

 Ganjam District, Madras, taken in October by Capt. E. Y, Watson, has the upper- 

 side of both forewings as in the dry-season form (Ismene), with the left-hand 

 hindwing of the upperside having the two median ocelli of the same large size as in 

 the wet-season form, and the right-hand hindwing with these ocelli minute as in 

 dry-season form both on the upper and underside, whereas, the underside of the left- 

 hand hindwing have the ocelli large, as in the wet-season form. 



Rearing op the two forms op this species in Calcutta by Mr. L. de Niceville. 

 In the Journal Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1886, p. 237, Mr. de Niceville says, " I 

 did not keep a very exact record of dates in breeding this species, as the transforma- 

 tions had been previously recorded, but, from eggs laid by M. Leda in August, I 

 bred, on September 6th, a female of M. Leda ; on the 7th another female ; on the 

 8th two female M. Ismene, one with distinct ocelli and therefore an intergrade 

 between M. Leda and M. Ismene, though nearer the latter ; on September 9fch one 

 male and two females of If. Ismene; on September 10th three males and four 

 females of M. Ismene, several of which are intergrades, and one male of M. Leda ; 

 on September 11th two males and one female (the latter a highly ocellated specimen) 

 of M. Ismene; and on September 12th one male of M. Ismene; the total result 

 being that from nineteen pupae bred from eggs laid by true M. Leda I obtained 

 three specimens (1 (? 2 ?) like the mother, and sixteen specimens (7 c? 9 ?) of 

 if. Ismene, several of which, though transitional forms, were yet all nearer to M. 

 Ismene than to M. Leda. My efforts to breed a second generation failed, all the 

 specimens dying without coupling or laying eggs." 



Description of the larvce of the wet-season brood, reared from the egg, in Lucknow, 

 1860, by the late Capt. H. L. de la Chaumette : " Larva ; After first moult, two- 

 fifths of an inch long ; ground-colour grass-green ; dorsal line well-defined, dark- 

 green ; lateral line broad and interrupted, yellow, placed close over the legs ; anal 

 segment terminating in two long pointed tails, giving it a forked appearance; 

 abdomen and legs green; head large, blue-green, circled with deep carmine and 

 having on the top two long appendages, like little horns, of the same colour ; the 

 carmine does not quite circle the head, the part where the circle is incomplete 

 being the space between the two horns ; on either side of the head is a milky streak 

 bordering the carmine circle. Head and horns, hairy ; body rugose, from being 

 covered with yellow piliferous spots. After last moult : Length 1 inch ; cylindrical, 

 tapering much posteriorly and a little anteriorly ; rugose ; ground-colour and general 

 characters as after first moult. Feeds on the leaves of Saccharum Bavennce. 

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