1S6 LEPIBOPTEBA INDICA. 



occurs at Kangra, specimens of the wet-season form being in Col. Swinhoe's collec- 

 tion, and the dry-season form (subfasciata) was obtained by the Rev. J. Hocking 

 (P. Z. S. 1882, 237). Mr. Doherty, in his notes on the butterflies taken in Kumaon 

 (J. A. S. Beng, 1886, 114) doubtless refers to this species (and not to its ally with 

 the yelloiu glandular patch, with which he there associates it — -the latter species, so far 

 as is known to the author, does not occur in the N.-W. Himalayas). He remarks that 

 " the wet-season form is commoner than G. Perseus in all the valleys up to 5000 feet, 

 in August and September ; the dry-season form first seen on the Lower Sarju about 

 September 23rd ; " the caterpillar taken in S. Orissa, and there described by Mr. 

 Doherty as that of the present species, belongs to its ally. Col. A. M. Lang (But- 

 Mo. Mag. 1864, 182) records Brusia, Otrea, and Poh/cleda [the latter probably Blasius] 

 as being found in Oudh " appearing in autumn, of feeble flight, flapping weakly 

 about near the ground and amongst long grass and low herbage." The late Capt. 

 de la Chaumette (Ent. Mo. Mag. 1865, 38) also gives Brusia and Pohjdecta as 

 " occurring in Oudh," and to their being " widely dispersed in the Central Provinces." 

 In his MS. notes of 1861, Capt. Chaumette also describes the larva as follows : — 

 " Caterpillar after first moult, 4 lines long ; ground colour bright apple-green, 

 dorsal line dark green ; incisions yellowish ; on anal segment two little pointed 

 protuberances ; abdomen bright apple-green, ventral line dark green ; legs green ; 

 head rough, pale plum colour, round beneath, flat above and terminating at top in 

 two minute raised and pointed tubercles ; stigmata brown, with a pale pupil. After 

 last moult, length 10 lines to an inch ; cylindrical and much attenuated posteriorly ; 

 rough ; colours and general characters as after first moult. Habits lazy. Went 

 into chr3'salis August 22nd. Chrysalis, — pendular, short, thick, green. Imago 

 emerged August 31st. Found on the wing fi'om June to September in Lucknow." 

 But no specimens from these localities have been seen by the author, and their 

 identity requires verification. Males and females of the wet-season form from 

 Durbunga, in Behar, are in the British Museum Collection, and others from 

 Ranclii, in Chota Nagpore, taken by Mr. Irvine in June, July, and August, are in 

 Col. Swinhoe's collection. A single male of the wet-season form taken by Mr. 

 Mowis, in Sikkim, is also in Col. Swinhoe's possession. Proceeding south-eastward, 

 there are Cachar specimens of both sexes of the wet-season form in the British 

 Museum ; from the Naga Hills in the collection of Mr. Jenner Weir, and of Mr. 

 Crowley, the latter also possessing both broods from the Karen Hills. Specimens 

 of both sexes of the wet-season form, from Chittagong and Maudalay, are in the 

 author's possession. In the British Museum are examples of the wet-season form 

 and of the dry-season form (Carpenteri Butler) from Pegu. In Rangoon, the wet- 

 season form was taken by Mr. Noble in June (Coll. Col. Swinhoe). In Upper 

 Tenasserim, Mr. Limborg (P. Z. S. 1878, 825) obtained the wet-season form "from 



