SATYRIN^. 123 



Madras by the late Sir Walter Elliot, and reproduced from his original drawings ; 

 fig. la is the larva and pupa reproduced from Mr. L. de Niceville's figure in Journ. 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1886, pi. 12, fig. 4 ; plate 123, figs. 1, a, b, c, d, e, 

 represents the male and female of the dry-season form. 



Distribution wfthin Indian area. — This species is extremely common in many 

 parts of the country, and has a very wide range. It is found throughout India, 

 and occurs in the Himalayas at low elevations ; also Upper and Lower Burma, 

 Tenasserim, the Mergui Archipelago, Andaman and Nicobar Isles, and Ceylon. " It 

 is on the wing more or less throughout the year. The upperside is fairly constant 

 in coloration throughout its range, some specimens, however, having the ground- 

 colour darker than others ; but the underside of the dry-season form varies strangely 

 even in the same locality, and in their markings and tints they harmonize so com- 

 pletely with the autumnal coloi'ation of decaying vegetation, that, when settled 

 amongst dead leaves and dried-up grass, it is almost impossible to see them " (Butt, 

 of India, i. 257). 



We possess specimens from Cashmere, taken by the late Capt. Bayue Eeed, 

 and from the N.-W. Himalayas. " Mr. C. J. Eodgers took the dry-season form 

 below Dalhousie. In the neighbourhood of Simla Mr. L. de Niceville took two 

 specimens only in four years' collecting. The Indian Museum, Calcutta, has a single 

 specimen from Masuri" (Butt, of India, i. 257). Mr. W. Doherty took it in the 

 " Tarai and low valleys of Kumaon up to 4000 feet, capturing the wet-season form 

 in August and September, and the dry-season form in October and November" 

 (Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1886, 120). The Kev. J. H. Hocking obtained it in 

 the Kangra District. We possess specimens . from General G. Eamsay's Nepal 

 Collection, " the wet-season form being rare in the Valley of Nepal, but the dry- 

 season form is very common in the rice-fields " (Ramsay's MS. Notes). Mr. H. J. 

 Elwes (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, 328) says, " it occurs in Sikkim all the year round 

 at low elevations, and I have taken the wet-season form in July as high as 7000 

 feet, but it is not so common in Sikkim as in the plains." Capt. A. M. Lang (Ent. 

 Mo. Mag. 1864, 182) records " both broods common in Oudh and Umballa, always 

 flitting about under the shade of trees, or lurking in long grass. I reared the larvas 

 on Saccharum Bavennce." At Saugor, Capt. H. L. de la Chaumette (Ann. N. H. 

 1865, 37) found the dry-season form " more common of the two. They fly at 

 sunset under the Neem trees {Azadirachfa indica), resting for a long time motionless 

 on the ground, and will not move until you almost tread upon them, when they will 

 fly away in great haste and return to the same spot, chiefly some favourite stone." 

 Capt. H. B. Hellard took it at Allahabad. Major J. Le Mesurier, R.E., obtained it 

 in Sind, Capt. Lloyd in Kattywar, and Col. C. Swinhoe (P. Z. S. 1884, 504) records 

 " both forms are apparently common in places in the interior of Karachi ; I have 



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