114 LEPIDOPTERA INDIGA. 



Egg. — Unknown. 



Habitat. — India; Ceylon; Burma; Malay Peninsula, etc. 



Distribution. — " This species has a very wide range. It occurs at Fyzabad in 

 Oudh, in Calcutta and Sikkim, and Eastwards as far as Upper Assam, also in 

 Burma, Orissa, Bombay, and thence Southward to Ceylon " (de Niceville, Butt. 

 Ind. ii. 221). Mr. W. Doherty records it from the " Kali Valley at Baghrihat, 

 2500 feet, Kumaon ; scarce " (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 124). Major Godwin- Austen 

 took it " East of Hurdwar, N.W. Provinces." The late General G. Ramsay obtained 

 it in Nepal. " A single female taken in Sikkim at 2000 feet elevation in October " 

 (de Niceville, J. A. S. Beng. 1882, 59). " Rare in Sikkim (the female commoner 

 than the male) at low elevations from April to October " {id. Sikkim Gazetteer, 

 1894, 144). The late W. S. Atkinson obtained it in " Sikkim, the Khasias and 

 Plains of Bengal " (MS. Notes). Colonel C. Swinhoe records it from the Khasias 

 (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1893, 286). Mr. Wood-Mason obtained " one male at Silcuri, Cachar " 

 (J. A. S. Beng. 1887, 362). Mr. L. de Niceville found it " rare in the neighbourhood 

 of Calcutta " (J. A. S. Beng. 1885, 45). The late Capt. R. C. Bevan took it in 

 Maungbhoom. Mr. A. Grote found the larva near Calcutta, in October, feeding on 

 Loranthus. Mr. W. C. Taylor records it as "very rare at Khurda, in Orissa; only 

 two taken" (List (1888) p. 6). "This is not very rare on the Hills near Bombay, 

 but seems to keep to the tops of trees, basking in the sun. I have found it at 

 Matheran in December" (E. H. Aitken, J. Bomb. N. H. S. 1886, 134). Mr. G. F. 

 Hampson says it is " rare in the Nilgiris from 8000 to 4000 feet elevation " (J. A. S. 

 Beng. 1888, 354). Mr. S. N. Ward found it " rare at Mangalore in April" (MS. 

 Notes). Mr. H. S. Ferguson records it as "not uncommon in the low country of 

 Travancore; not found in the Hills " (J. Bomb. N. H. S. 1891, 9). In Ceylon "it 

 is a scarce butterfly, the male particularly so; it is fond of pitching on pathways. 

 Range about 3000 feet from low country " (F. M. Mackwood, MS. Notes). Capt. 

 Hutchison found it " occurring in the same districts as E. Evelina, having similar 

 habits, the flight being quicker and stronger" (Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 31). Signor 

 Leonardo Fea obtained it at Bhamo, Burma, in November. Capt. E. Y. Watson 

 took it in " Rangoon ; not common " (J. Bomb. N. H. S. 1888, 6). Dr. N. Manders 

 took " one specimen at Fort Stedmau, Shan States, Burma, in July" (Tr. Ent. Soc. 

 1890, 524). Major C. H. E. Adamson "caught females of this insect about ripe 

 guava fruit in Rangoon, and in Arakan, in January ; the males I have only caught 

 near Bhamo. LTnlike other species of Euthalia, the female seems to be the most 

 abundant" (List, p. 18). 



Mr. H. Druce records it from " Nahconchaisee, Siam " (P. Z. S. 1874, 106). Mr. 

 W. L. Distant obtained it in the Malay Peninsula (Rhop. Malay, p. 128). Dr. L. 

 Martin took it in N.E, Sumatra (J. A. S. Beng. 1895, 426). 



