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together. Underside. Ground-colour paler and of a uniformly brighter red ; mark- 

 ings the same but somewhat broader and less prominent. 



Expanse, S 2^% to 2i^o, ? ^h to 3 inches. 



Habitat. — Southern and Eastern Indian ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; Siam ; 

 S.China; Malay Peninsula ; Sumatra. 



Distribution. — We possess specimens of both seasonal forms from Sikkim, the 

 Khasia Hills ; Maungbhoom, Bengal ; the Nilgiris, a dry-season male from Kallaur, 

 Travancore, 1000 feet, taken in February (the S. Indian representatives — named 

 nilgirica, having the white discal spots on forewing somewhat larger than in 

 N. Eastern and Burmese examples, the upper spot of the lowest pair being also 

 proportionately large, and on the hindwing the white discal baud is also broader) ; 

 a wet-season male from Burma, and a dry-season male taken in February, by 

 Col. C. H. E. Adamson. Mr. L. de Niceville records specimens in the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta, from Sikkim; Calcutta; Cachar; North Khasia Hills; Orissa; 

 Ehutnagherry, Bangalore and Gotacamund, S. India ; Mepley valley and Thoung- 

 yeen forests, Upper Tennasserim (Butt. Ind. ii. 105). " In Sikkim, it is common 

 at low elevations from March to December " (id. Sikk. Gazetteer, 1894, 138). Mr. 

 E. H. Aitken records "a few specimens taken at Mahableshwar, Bombay, in March" 

 (J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1886, 1333). Capt. E. Y. Watson took " a male at Kadur, 

 Mysore, in November" (id. 1890, 4). A female from Eanche, and a male from 

 Bhotan are in Mr. H. Grose-Smith's collection, and a dry-season male from Siam in 

 Mr. P. Crowley's. Col. Adamson has the wet-season form from Kindat, Burma, 

 taken in July, and the dry-season from Yemna Choung in February and November ; 

 Col. Adamson also obtained the dry-season form commonly in Upper Burma in the 

 hilly country, especially in February and March, and the wet-season form at Bhamo 

 and on the Upper Sal ween River " (MS. Note). Capt. Watson records it from Tilin in 

 October and November, and at Tilin from December to May, taken during the 

 Chin-Lushai Expedition of 1889-90" (J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1891,39). He also 

 records " two specimens taken at Kelawa on the Chindwin River, Burma, in March " 

 {id. 1897, 654). Dr. N. Manders found it " not uncommon in the Shan States, 

 E. Burma" (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1890, 522). Cramer's type. Columella, is recorded, by 

 him, from China. Both sexes, which I have verified, were taken in Hong Kong by 

 Mr. J. J. Walker, R.N., where it occurs sparingly in March, April, and May " 

 (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1895, 454). Mr. de Niceville records it as " very rare in Sumatra " 

 (J. A. S. Beng. 1895, 410). 



ANDRAPANA JTJMBAH. 



Ne'ptis Jumiah, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. East India Company, i. p. 167, pi. 4,3, fig. 5, ? (1S57). 

 de Kiceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 106 (1886). 



