124 LEPIDOPTERA INBICA. 



seen it from Hydrabad, but they are apparently very rare on the coast. I obtained 

 one wet-season form at Karachi, and there is one of the dry-season form labelled 

 Karachi in the museum." "It is comparatively rare in the Punjab; in the North- 

 western Provinces it is much commoner, but throughout Central and Peninsular 

 India and Bengal it is very common " (Butt. Ind. i. 257). Col. C. Swinhoe (P. Z. S. 

 1886, 422) records taking " the wet-season form at Mhow in June, July, September 

 and October, and the dry-season form commonly during the cold weather from the 

 latter end of October to beginning of March. I have, however, taken one of the 

 latter in June." Dr. Forsayeth (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1884, 377) records rearing, and 

 describes the larvse, at Mhow. In Bombay " it is common in all moist places, the 

 wet-season form from July to October, and the dry-season form all the year round, 

 being very plentiful in the cold season" (P. Z. S. 1885, 126). Mr. G. F. Hampsou 

 (J. A. S. Bengal, 1888, 351) obtained it on the Nilgiri Hills at 3000 to 4000 feet 

 elevation, the wet-season form, April-August, the dry-season form, August, 

 November, December and February, being common in forests." Capt. E. Y. 

 Watson (Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1890, 2) records " the wet-season form taken ia 

 Mysore, October, November and December, and the dry-season form in November 

 and December." 



In Madras, the late Sir Walter Elliot reared the wet-season brood from " larvfe * 

 found on Guinea Grass, changing to pupa on October 29th, the butterfly emerging 

 on November 7th " (MS. Notes). 



Mr. J. Rothney (Ent. Mo. Mag. 1882, 34) found it common " in the neighbourhood 

 of Calcutta, but difficult to catch ; always found in shade, either under Bamboo or 

 Mangoe topes ; fond of settling, when disturbed, in cactus hedges." " In Calcutta it 

 is common, both in the rainy and dry seasons. Keeps in shade under trees and 

 bushes and amongst dead leaves during the day, but flies about rapidly in the 

 evening " (Mr. de Niceville, J. A. S. Beng. 1885, 43). Mr, J. Wood-Mason records 

 (J. A. S. Beng. 1887, 352) " the dry-season form from Silchar and Silcuri in Cachar, 

 in April and end of May, and the wet-season form in May, July and August." It is 

 also found in Silhet and Assam. Major C. H. E. Adamson (List, p. 9) says it is 

 " common throughout Burma. I have bred the wet-season form from the egg; the 

 larvffi feeds on the rice-plant, remaining in the pupa state fifteen to seventeen days; 

 the dry-season form very common at all times of the year except Maj^ and June." 

 Signor Leonardo Fea obtained the wet-season form at Bhamo in October. Capt. 

 E. Y. Watson (Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1891, 35) records " the wet-season form, 

 taken during the Chin Lushai Expedition, at Pauk in September, and at Pokoko in 

 October, and the dry-season form at Pauk in November, and at Tilin from November 



• Figured on our Plate 122, fig. 1, from Sir W. Elliot's original drawings. 



