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unocellated forms are veiy rare in Sikkim," and Mr. H. I. Elwes (Tr. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond. 1888, 303), also observes that they " are not common in the Sikkim hills, but 

 occur at low elevations, and more abundantly in the Terai. Mr. 0. Miiller notes both 

 forms as occurring towards the end of the rains in September and October." It 

 is recorded (Butt, of India, i. 116) from the Punjab, and also as being common at 

 Lucknow in Oudh. In Manipuri, N. W. Provinces, it was obtained by the late Mr. C. 

 Home. At Mhow, in the Central Provinces, Col. C. Swinhoe (P. Z. S. 1886, 422), 

 records the capture of imseus in October and April, one specimen only being taken 

 in the latter month ; it was fairly common in October." Mr. J. A. Bethara obtained 

 it at Raipur in November. In Bombay, jjerserts was taken by Col. Swinhoe in 

 " October, but was not common, and in Poona in October and November." Major 

 W. J. Yerbury, in bis MS, Notes, records perseus as taken " on Matlieran Hill at end 

 of October." Mr. G. F. Hampson (J. A. S. Beng. 1888, 348) obtained it on the 

 Nilgiris — the specimens recorded are now under examination, — the wet-season brood 

 being taken in August, September and October and tbe dry-season brood in Novem- 

 ber and January. From Travancore, further south, I possess specimens taken at 

 Kowdias, at 2000 feet. In Ceylon, Capt. Hutchinson states (Lep. Ceylon, i. 21) that 

 it is " found at all times in the Western and Central Provinces, both in the plains and 

 up to 2000 feet, on grassy lands ; its flight being short and slow, along edges of 

 forest-paths and grass lands, settling on tufts of grass." On the Eastern side of 

 Continental India we have no record of its occurring in the Madras district. Mr. 

 W. C. Taylor notes it in his list of butterflies of Orissa, as being taken in Khorda, 

 where it is very common. Specimens from Ranchi, Lower Bengal, taken by Mr- 

 Irvine, in July, are in Col. Swinhoe's collection. In the neighbourhood of Calcutta 

 Mr. J. Rothney (Ent. Mo. Mag. 1882, 34) found it " common in Ban-ackpore Park, 

 being fond of shade and settling mostly on long grass." Mr. L. de Niceville (J. A. S. 

 Beng. 1885, 42) found the ocellated brood not uncommon during the rainy season in 

 the Calcutta district, and the unocellated form being common during the cold and hot 

 weather, and in 1886 reared the unocellated form during November, from eggs deposited 

 by a female of the previous wet-season form. Specimens of both the wet and dry-season 

 forms from Malda, taken by Mr. Irvine, are in Col. Swinhoe's and Mr. Hampson's 

 collections. In Cachar, according to Mr. "Wood-Mason (J. A. S. Beng. 1887, 848) 

 " eleven males and one female of the ocellated form obtained around Silcuri between 

 May 27th and June 28th, and of the unocellated form two males only were obtained 

 near Silchar on April 3rd." Specimens from Shillong, in the Kasia Hills, are in Mr. 

 P. Crowley's cabinet. From Burma, I possess specimens of the wet-season form, taken 

 in September in the Chittagong Hills. In the Shan States it was found to be very 

 common by Dr. N. Mauders (Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1890, 517). According to Major 

 C. H. E. Adamson (Notes on Burmese butterflies), the " ocellated form is very common 



