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emerges in about ten clays. Tlie colour of the pupa seems variable ; those I have 

 bred in Calcutta when attached to the green stem, and amongst the green leaves of 

 the food-plant were coloured green also ; the brown pupsB may be attached to dead 

 leaves or stalks" (de Xiceville, Butt. Ind. ii. 10). Mr. W. Doherty obtained it at 

 "Ranibagh and the Tarai, at 1000 feet, in Kumaon " (J. A. S. Beng. 1836, 12J..). 

 We possess a male labelled Masnri. The late Capt. H. L. Chaumette, in a MS. 

 Note, says it is " an Oudh insect, of slow floating flight, over low bushes, and round 

 and round higher ones, as if playing hide and seek, seldom actually settling, but 

 appearing as if about to do so, or to hide within the bush." Col. C. Swinhoe records 

 its capture in " Poona, September to February; Mahableshwar in May, and in 

 Bombay" (P. Z. S. 188-5, 129). In Sikkim it is " rarer than ilerionr, but found 

 occasionally up to 5000 feet elevation throughout the year" (H. J. Ehves, Tr. Ent. 

 Soc. 1888, 335). Col. C. Swinhoe records it from the Khasias (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1893, 

 277). Mr. J. Rothney found it "common at Barrackpore, near Calcutta, from 

 early March to end of October" (Ent. M. Mag. 1880). Mr. J. Davidson and E. H. 

 Aitken " reared the larva in Gu/erat, Bombay, on Tra'jia cannaUna, and in Kharwar 

 on T. invoJncrafit in June and August. Both jdants sting like Nettles. The larva 

 is a restless little creature, and moves its head from side to side when walking " 

 (Journ. Bombay N. H. S. 1890, 269). Mr. G. F. Hampson records it from the 

 Nilgiris (J. A. S. Beng. 1888, 352). Capt. E. Y. Watson found it " common in 

 Mysore, taken at Kolar in October, in Banavar, Lukvalli, and Kathlekan, in 

 November" (J. Bombay N. H. S. 1890, 3). Specimeus taken by Capt. AVatson in 

 Berhampore and Gangam, in July, are in the British ^Nfuseum Collection. Mr. 

 H. S. Fei-guson records it from Travancore (J. Bombay N. H. S. 1891, 7). In 

 Ceylon, Mr. F. M. Mackwood says it is " found in low country and hills up to 4000 

 feet elevation, and is less common than E. tapi-ohana, May to June in greatest 

 number" (Lep. Ceylon, i. 44). In Burma, Col. C. H. E. Adamson, found it common 

 throughout the year, wherever the Castor-oil plant grows (List, 1897, 17). Signor 

 L. Fea took it at Bhamo in September. Capt. C. T. Bingham obtained it in the 

 Thoungyeen Valley, Upper Tenasserim, in October. Dr. N. Mauders found it quite 

 a common species in the Shan States, Burma, at suitable elevations" (Tr. Ent. Soc. 

 1890, 520). It was obtained in Tavoy by the native Collector, Moti Ram (J. A. S. 

 Beug. 1887, 420), and Dr. J. Anderson took it on King Island, Mergui, in January 

 (J. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, 35). Mr. H. Druce records it from Nahconchaisee, Siam. 

 It also occurs in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Hongkong, Tonkin, 

 Hainan, Formosa. 



Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 382, fig. 1, larva and pupa, is copied 

 from ^Messrs. Davidson and Aitken's published figures ; fig. la, larva and pupa, from 

 Mr. Arthur Grote's Calcutta drawings; fig. 1, b, c, represents a dry-season male. 



