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Peninsula on botli Coasts, We have it from Malwaii on the West Coast, and from 

 Rajamundrj on the East, and there are specimens in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 

 from Badrachallum, Madras Cit}-, Bangalore, and Trevandrum " (Butt. Ind. i. p. 

 321). " It is a butterfly of the Plains rather than of the Hills. I have seen only 

 two or three properly authenticated Sikkim specimens. In the Western Duars at 

 the foot of the Hills it is quite cominon. Mr. G. C. Dudgeon has taken specimens 

 in Baling at 3000 feet elevation " (L. de Niceville, Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, 131). 

 Col. C. Swinhoe records it from the Khasia Hills (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1898, 276). Capt. 

 H. L. Chaumette says it is " extremely abundant at Saugor, though none were seen 

 during the whole journey from Bombay ; August to November. It flies close to 

 the ground, not swiftly, but lazily, settling for a short time on a flower, moving 

 afterwards to another, and so on. Also taken at Lucknow, Allahabad, and 

 Calcutta." (Ent. Monthly Mag. 1865, 37). Major H. B. Hellard obtained it in the 

 " Ramgurh District, Chota Nagpur, in November and December " (MS. Notes). 

 Mr. W. C. Taylor records it as " very common at Khoorda, Orissa " (List, 1888, 3). 

 Col. C. Swinhoe obtained it in " Bombay, in September, and Poona from January to 

 April " (P. Z. S. 1885, 127) ; also at " Mhow in September " {vL 1886, 424). Mr. 

 E. H. Aitken says it is " not very common in Bombay, but a few appear just before 

 the hot season. I met with it at Mahableshwar in March. It seems generally to be 

 on a journey, going steadily in one direction with a feeble flight, Imt it will stop to 

 sip a flower and is easily caught. I believe it is, like the Danainte, offensive to birds 

 and reptiles " (Journ. Bombay N. H. S. 1886, 129). " Common everywhere, in the 

 North Kanara District of Bombay, but most abundant on grassy hills, from 

 November to March, we have only reared it on the wild Passion-flower (Modecca 

 pnlmn.ta), but it must feed on something else during the dry season. This butterfly 

 is certainly 'protected,' like the Danainas, by an offensive smell and taste" (Messrs. 

 Davidson and Aitken, id. 1896, 246). Mr. S. N. Ward obtained it, and reared the 

 larva in Kanara. Dr. F. Day found it common at Koonoor(MS. Notes). Mr. G. F. 

 Hampson records it from the Nilgiris (J. A. S. Beng. 1888, 352). Capt. E. Y. 

 Watson obtained it in " Madras, being very common from March to August " {id. 

 1890, 266), and in Mysore, at Kadur in November, Nelamangala, Januai'y ; common " 

 {id. I.e. 1890, 2). Mr. H. S. Ferguson found it " common in Travaucore, in the low 

 country and up to 2000 feet in the Hills" (I.e. 1891, 7). In Ceylon, Mr. F. M. 

 Mackwood records it as being " found generally in the jjlains and up to about 4000 

 feet. It is about all the year. Capt. Wade also found it common at Kandy." The 

 late Dr. Thwaites reared the larv^. It feeds on Gucurbitacese. The figures on 

 Plate 33 (Lep. Ceyl.) being copied from his drawings (Lep. Ceyl. i. 66). Of our 

 illustrations of this species on Plate 388, fig. 1 is from Gen. Hardwicke's original 

 drawings. No. 90, of the larva and pupa reared at Dumdum, near Calcutta, in 



