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other dimly-lighted places." Mr. Ossian Limborg (P. Z. S. 1878, 826) obtained it 

 at " Meetan, 3000 feet elevation, in Upper Tenasserim." 



A Varirty op the Male (see our Plate 147, fig. 1) in Mr. F. D. Godman's 

 collection, labelled " East Pegu, March and April, 1890," taken by Mr. W. Doherty, 

 has the upperside much darker brown, the forewing having a conspicuous vrell- 

 defined short broad pale ochreous oblique subapical fascia, followed by broad 

 submarginal lunules, similar to those in the female, and the hindwing has both the 

 subraarginal and marginal fascia also paler. The underside of this male has the 

 fascise disposed similarly to those in Honrath's figure of Perakana. Dr. J. 

 Anderson (Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, 33) took " both sexes at Thaing, King 

 Island, in the Mergui Archipelago, in January. Mr. F. de Roepstorff obtained 

 many examples at Port Blair, S. Andamans, these differing from the normal 

 specimens as follows : — 



ANDAMAN FORM. (See our Plate 147, fig. 2, ? .) 



Male. Upperside similar to Burmese examples. Underside paler than both 

 Burmese and Malayan, the hindwing possessing a more or less complete series of 

 ocelli, instead of the normal single apical and anal ocellus. Female. Upperside 

 paler, with the pale fascia of underside visible. Forewing with a more sharply- 

 defined pale ochreous-yellow subapical oblique fascia, slender lower discal lunules, and 

 broad submarginal spots. Hindwing with the exterior margin more convex and 

 sharply scalloped, and more sharply-defined pale ochreous-yellow discal lunular line, 

 submarginal and marginal fascia, the two former being more irregular in their 

 course. Underside with the ground-colour conspicuously paler ; the transverse 

 fasciae similar. Hindwing with a more or less complete series of five ocelli, the 

 lower second being of the same size as the upper, the third smaller, the fourth 

 incipiently indicated by black scales. Expanse, S 4^o, ? 4i^o, inches. Specimens 

 from the Andaman Islands, agreeing with the above, are. also in the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta, and several of both sexes are in Mr. L. de jNTiceville's collection. 



DiSTEiBUTioN OUTSIDE CUB AiiEA. — Mr. Distant (Rhop. Malay, p. 71) records it 

 from the "Malay Peninsula, Penang, Sumatra, and Billiton." Mr. Druce (P. Z. S. 

 1874, 104) gives " Chentaboon, Siam, and Borneo." Dr. Horsfield obtained it 

 frequently, and reared their larvaj, in Java. 



Habits of Imago. — " Several writers have noted the crepuscular habits of 

 A. Phidi])])us, and it is often found in Cocoanut Palm groves" (Butt. Ind. i. 290). 

 Major Adamson (List, p. 10) found it in Akyab, " frequenting old barns and other 

 dimly-lighted places, in November." " In the Malay Peninsula, this butterfly 

 possesses the local name of 'Cocoanut Moth,'" and, as Mr. Bigg writes: "it 

 delio-hts in shady places, and is especially found about Attap-sheds and on dead 



