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December, and the dry-season form at Pauk and Tilin in Kovember, December, and 

 April. Capt. "Watson also took the wet-season form in Rangoon in June, July, 

 August, and September, and the dry-season form at Beeling in Upper Tenasserim, 

 in February, March, and April. Signer Leonardo Fea obtained the wet-season 

 form at Palone in Pegu, in August, and the dry-season form at Moolayet in March, 

 and also at Bhamo in October. Capt. Bingham took the dry-season form at 

 Thoungyeen in Tenasserim in January and February, and at Houndrau in November. 

 Capt. Watson also obtained the dry-season form at Poungdau near Thyetmyo in 

 November, and in the Karen Hills in December. Mr. 0. Limborg (P. Z. S. 1878, 

 824) obtained the dry-season form in Upper Tenasserim at Ahsown, Meetan, 3000 

 feet in April, Naththoung to Paboga, Moolai, 3000 to 6000 feet, and Moolat, 4500." 

 Mr. H. J. Elwes (J. A. S. Bengal, 1887, 417) records the dry-season form from 

 Tavoy. 



This species is also found in Western China ; the wet-season form (Aswa) is 

 described by Mr. J. H. Leech in " Lep. China, etc." p. 108, and the dry-season 

 form (Bela) described and figured as M. Ismene, p. 106, pi. 13, figs. 2, 5. 



MELANITIS VARAHA. 



"Wet-season Bbood (Plate 127, figs. 1, la, b, c, d, c? ? ). 

 Melanitis Ampa, Swinhoe, Annals of Nat. Hist. 1890, p. 353, ? . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside uniformly dark sepia-brown, the exterior borders 

 paler. Forewing with the exterior margin nearly straight. Both wings generally 

 unspotted, but sometimes the forewing shows two subapical white dots and the 

 hindwing two posterior submarginal dots. Underside purpurescent-brown ; densely 

 covered with uniformly-disposed narrow purpurescent-grey strigse. Both wings 

 crossed by a very obscurely-defined darker narrow discal fascia, the ordinary inner 

 fascia on the forewing not being defined ; submarginal ocelli small, fully developed, 

 white pupilled, the pupil on those of the hindwing large, and in some few examples 

 the ocelli on both wings are of nearly uniform large size and the pupil occupying 

 the whole of the centre. 



Female. Upperside much paler and of a cinerescent olive-brown tint. Fore- 

 vjing angled below the apex; with two very obscure blackish-brown subapical 

 superposed spots, both with an indistinct whitish pupil, the adjacent costal patch 

 also obscurely defined. Hindwing sometimes with one, or two, posterior submarginal 

 prominent whitish spots. Underside reddish-brown or brownish-ochreous ; densely 

 covered with uniformly-disposed pale ochreous-grey striga3. Both wings with the 

 discal fascia well defined, narrow, darker and brighter reddish-brown or brownish- 

 ochreous, the marginal border being also of the same darker colour ; the submarginal 



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