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It is also common in the interior of Sind." At Mhow (P.Z, S. 1886, 421) it is " very- 

 common from September to July," and in the Dekkan, and Bombay, it is " common 

 all the year round" (P.Z.S. 1885, p. 125). Mr. E. H. Aitken also states (Journ. 

 Bombay, N.H. Soc. 188(5, 128) that it is " common in Bombay, especially on the 

 Hills. The larva found at Lanowlie in October, feeding on Hoya viridiflora. The 

 offensive smell which makes reptiles and birds reject this family of butterflies is 

 particularly strong in this species, and is certainly connected with the extrusion of 

 the yellow plumes. It is also a very difficult insect to kill ; pinching the thorax has 

 a temporary effect, but it soon revives ; even when killed past reviving and pinned, 

 it will continue to wag its head and antenna satirically for some days." 



Proceeding Southward, we have it from Malabar (S. N. Ward), the Nilgiris (Gr. F. 

 Hampson), and in Travancore Mr. H. Fergusson states (Butt. Ind. i. p. 47) it is 

 common from the foot of the Hills to the summits, most abundant in November and 

 December, common throughout February, only a few seen in March, but again 

 fairly common in the higher elevations in April and May. In Madras Sir "W. Elliot 

 (MS. Notes, No. 25) found the "larvae [plate 6, fig. 1] in December, 1850, feeding on 

 Hoya viridiflora, changing to pupa on the 19th and to the imago on the 29th of that 

 month." In Lower Bengal Mr. W. C. Taylor notes it as common at Khorda in 

 Orissa ; and the late Mr. R. Frith found the larva feeding on Galotropis volubilis. Mr. 

 De Niceville (Butt, of Ind. i. p. 47) states that in Calcutta it is plentiful all 

 through the year, and to be met with everywhere, particularly in gardens, where it 

 is almost the commonest insect seen. Like the rest of the genus, it has a slow 

 flapping flight, and settles frequently, often at the very end of a dead stick." At 

 Barrackpur, Mr. J. Eothney also found it very common from March to October. 

 North-eastward, Mr. J. Wood-Mason (J.A.S. Beng. 1886, 344) found it '-'com- 

 mon in Oachar in April, May and June." Mr. S. E. Peal has taken it at Sibsagur 

 in Upper Assam, and Mr. J. L. Sherwill recently took it in the Naga Hills. 



In Burma it is not uncommon at Hangoon and Toungu. Dr. J. Anderson 

 (J. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. xxi. 1886, 29) obtained it at Tavoy in December, and 

 at Mergui in March. Further inland, on the Irrawadi Eiver opposite Mandalay, 

 Commander A. Carpentei', R.N., obtained it on the 10th of January (Ann. N.H. 

 1886, 182). 



On the island of Ceylon, Capt. Hutchison (Lep. Ceylon, i. 5) obtained it "at 

 Colombo in open or partially cultivated ground, being most common from October 

 to December, having a heavy slow flight, and often found in crowds on low shrubs 

 in company with T. septentrionis." In the Nicobars, it was obtained, commonly, by 

 the late Mr. F. A. De Roepstorff on Nankawri, Kamorta, and Kar Nicobar Isles, and 

 on the same islands more recently by Mr. W. Doherty, as well as on the Teressa and 

 Bonipoka Islands. 



