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cinereous externally and oclireous internally. Female. Upperside. Forewing with 

 slightly-defined costal spot, upper discal small slender spots, submarginal and 

 marginal row, and both, rows on the hindwing as in male. Underside as on upper- 

 side, except that the submarginal spots on the forewing are all very small, as in the 

 male. Some white spots at base of the wing. Body dark brown ; head, palpi, 

 thorax in front and beneath black ; fore femora white beneath ; abdomen beneath 

 with grey bands. 



Expanse, c?3i to 4, ? 3f to 4^ inches. 



Habitat. — Lower Burma, Siam, Cochin China. 



Distribution. — " Occurs in Rangoon in June, Moulmein in June and August, 

 and a number of specimens were taken by Mr. 0. Limborg in Upper Tenasserim 

 in the cold weather. Dr. J. Anderson obtained it in the Mergui Archipelago in the 

 cold weather. It has also been taken by Capt. 0. T. Bingham in the Mepley Valley 

 in February, and in the Thoungyeen forests in May" (Butt. Ind. 65). It also 

 occurs in Siam and Cochin China. 



Habits, &c. — In his " Notes on the Danainge of Burma," published at New- 

 castle-on-Tyne, in 1889, Major C. H. E. Adamson says, p. 7, "I have been 

 collecting in Burma at all seasons of the year during the last ten yeai's, and I 

 have paid special attention to the Salpinx group, many hundreds of which have 

 passed through my hands. In the group to which these insects \_Ij. Grassa, 

 JErichsoni, and ifasoni] belong, the variation is endless, no two are exactly alike, 

 and I am convinced that it is impossible for any man to say what should constitute 

 a species from merely seeing dried specimens. In ground colour, in tone and extent 

 of blue gloss ; in the size, shape, and number of discal, marginal, and submarginal 

 spots on the anterior wings ; in the presence, absence, size, colour, and shape of the 

 costal and cellular spot, infinite variety occur. Until the contraiy has been proved 

 by breeding, it seems to me that the proper course is to consider these insects as 

 belonging to one species only, especially when they occur in the same places and at 

 the same times. In 1883, on the 2r)th March, I saw the first of these insects on the 

 wing, and by the end of the month, in some pineapple gardens near Akyab, both 

 this species and E. Klugii were very common. I caught a large series of both 

 species showing extreme variations. Throughout March, April, and May these 

 insects remained very common ; after that they became scarce, but some were to be 

 found as late in the year as November. They seldom leave the shade of the jungles, 

 and they rest sometimes in large numbers among the foliage of various fruit-trees. 

 If the branches of some trees be shaken a dozen or more will ever fly lazily out from 

 among the leaves, and flutter away to the nearest tree, where they will again hide 

 themselves among the branches. I have specimens agreeing with the descriptions 



