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Heteromorphic Variety. — Mr. E. H. Aitken records (Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. 1886, 128) " a specimen cauglit at Matheran [a Hill Station near Bombay] in 

 December, wlaicli has the ground colour throughout of a dull lavender, the markings 

 being of the normal pattern." 



Habitat. — Throughout India, Burmah, Nicobars, Ceylon. 



Food Plants and Habits op Larva. — "Feeds on Baphis ^pidchellum ; habits 

 solitary, sometimes two or three together" (Chaumette). " LarvEe seldom to be 

 seen, whereas the pupa is very common and one of the handsomest " (Ward, 

 Malabar Notes). "Larva feeding on Baphis lemma and Passularla" (Grote ; 

 Calcutta). " Larva feeding on Ceropegea intermedia, in Madras ; Pupa, 7th October; 

 Imago, 13th October" (Elliot). 



Habits op Imago. — " Flight easy ; fond of flowers, particularly of Baphanus 

 sativus. Frequents fields, gardens, and woods alike" (Chaumette). 



Distribution within Indian Area. — A widely spread species and only less 

 common than L. Clirysippus. In the extreme "West, Major Howland Roberts records 

 (P. Z. S. 1880, 405) having observed a single specimen at Rokeran, six miles from 

 Kandahar. North- Westward Major J. W. Yerbury " took a few specimens at 

 Campbellpur in June and July ; it was common at Hassan Abdal in June, and seen 

 about Abbottabad in August and September, a single specimen also seen on Thun- 

 diani, 8700 feet elevation, in September " (Ann. Nat. Hist. 1888, 133). In Kashmir 

 it was obtained by Capt. E. B. Eeed from May to September. Capt. H. B. Hellard 

 took it at Allahabad, Rawul Pindi, and in Kashmir. In Kulu, according to Mr. G. 

 Young, " a few appear in June, and from the middle of August, a succession of 

 broods come out till late in the autumn ; in Chumba a few are on the wing in 

 April" (Butt, of Ind. i. 53). Col. A. M. Lang records it as "tolerably common 

 everywhere in the Simla District." Mr. De Niceville (Ind. Agriculturist, Jan. 1880) 

 obtained it at Kotgurh, where it was common from July to October. In Kumaon, 

 Mr. W. Doherty says (J. A S. Beng. 1886, 11-i) " it is common everywhere there up 

 to Khati, 7000 feet elevation." Mr. De Niceville says it is common in the Sikkini 

 Terai, and according to Mr. H. J. Elwes (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 300) also " common 

 in Sikkim up to about 5000 feet, during the whole year." It is also recorded in the 

 list of Major-General G. Ramsay's Nepal butterflies. Captain Chaumette notes it 

 as " rather common at Lucknow from January to July." " In the plains of N. India 

 it is common throughout the winter, while in the Himalayas and Khasias it is most 

 common in the autumn " (De Niceville, Butt. Ind. i. 53). Going Westward, we have 

 Colonel Swinhoe's record (P. Z. S. 1884, 504) of its " occasional occurrence at 

 Karachi in July and August," and that " since the recent introduction of the Mulleer 

 Water Works, is now becoming a common insect there daring June, July, and 

 August " (J. Bomb. N. H. Soc. 1888), that it is also " common at Mhow from 



