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form was obtained by Colonel A. M. Lang, and also in Oudb (Ent. Mag. 1864, 

 182). Mr. L. de Niceville also took it in tlie Deyra Dhoon (Butt. Ind. i. 113), and 

 Mr. J. A. Betham (J. Bomb. N. H. S. 1890, 156) obtained it in the Central Pro- 

 vinces, remarking that " these little butterflies are shade lovers, and lie hidden under 

 the trees and bushes during the day time ; they are active and restless in the morn- 

 ing and evening, and also when the day happens to be dark and cloudy. They have 

 a skipping kind of flight when started from the shades they love ; they are, however, 

 easily caught and killed." In Orissa, Mr. Taylor records its capture at Khurda, " the 

 dry-season brood being very common in I^ovember." Mr. L. de Niceville (J. A. S. 

 Beng. 1885,41) says, "the ocellated form occurs somewhat sparsely during the 

 rains in the Calcutta district, the unocellated form being met with only in the cold 

 and dry weather." Mr. Wood-Mason (J. A. S. Beng. 1887, 348) records " numerous 

 specimens of both sexes of the ocellated form, taken in Cachar during the rainy sea- 

 son between May 26th and August 9th, and four males only of the unocellated form 

 were taken at the end of the dry season between the 3rd and 5th of May." The dry- 

 season form has been taken in the Khasia Hills (Butt. Ind. i. 118), and examples of 

 both the wet and dry-season forms from the Naga Hills are in Mr, P, Crowley's collec- 

 tion. In Sikkim, according to Mr. H. J. Elwes (Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, 303), 

 "this species is not common, but occurs in the Terai and up to 3000 feet; medus, 

 the rainy-season form, occurs from May to September, and runeka from October to 

 March, though there may be occasional instances of either forms being taken out of 

 season. Buneka seems more abundant than medus, which is rather an insect of the 

 plains than the hills." Mr. 0. Moller took the rainy-season form in the Sikkim Terai 

 in August and September, and Mr. de Niceville the dry-season form in October 

 (Butt. Ind. i. 112). In Upper Burma, the unocellated form was taken by Com- 

 mander A. Carpenter in December, on the Irrawaddy, thirty miles above 

 Mandalay (Ann. Nat. Hist. 1886, 183). Dr. N. Manders (Tr. Ent. Soc. 

 1890, 517) says it is "not a common insect in the Shan States, but common 

 enouo-h in Upper Burma." Major C. H. E. Adamson (List of Burmese 

 butterflies) says it is " very common throughout Burma, medus during the rainy 

 season, and runeka from October to March." Mr. O. Limborg (P. Z. S. 1S78, 

 825) obtained the dry-season form during the cold weather in Upper Tenasserim, at 

 Ahsown, from Moulmein to Meetan, at Hatseiga, and from Naththoung to Paboga." 

 Mr. Oates obtained the wet- season form in Pegu in May. Captain C. T. Bingham 

 has taken the dry-season form in the Donat range, and at Mepley and various parts 

 of the Thoungyeen valley. Mr. C. T. Hill took it at Tavoy in March (Butt. Ind. i. 

 112). Mr. H. J. Elwes (J. A. S. Beng. 1887, 418) also records it from Tavoy. Dr. 

 J. Anderson (Journ. Linn. Soc. 1886, 32) obtained specimens in the Mergui Archi- 

 pelago in December and March. In the Nicobar Islands, the wet-season form is 



