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distinguisliable from eacli otlier, except in localities wliere the seasons are better 

 marked than in Sikkim." Mr. de Niceville (Butt. Ind. i. 122) says that the dry- 

 season form " is tlie commonest in the Sikkim Terai and Hills, and that it occurs 

 also in Upper Assam." Mr. J. Wood-Mason (J. A. S. Beng. 1887, 348) records 

 " seventy-five males, and seventeen females of the wet-season form from Cachar, taken 

 in Silcuri and the forests around between 26tli May and 25th August ; a single male 

 of the dry-season form being obtained in Silchar on 3rd April." The dry-season 

 form has been taken at Malda by Mr. Irvine (Coll. Swinhoe). From the Calcutta 

 district we possess males and females of the wet and dry-season forms, taken by the 

 late Mr. W. S. Atkinson, A. E. Russell, and more recently by Mr. Chai^lton Swiohoe. 

 Mr. Rothney (Bnt. Mo. Mag, 1882, 34) records it as common at Barrackpore, near 

 Calcutta, " being fond of shade, and settling mostly in long grass." Mr. de Niceville 

 (J. A. S. Beng. 1885, p. 42) states that the ocellated form is " not uncommon during 

 the rainy season," and the unocellated form " common during the cold and hot 

 weather." Examples of the wet-season form from Durbunga in Behar are in the 

 British Museum. Examples of the wet season form from Pachmari in Central India, 

 taken by Mr. Betham in October, are in Col. Swinhoe' s collection. From the 

 Bombay district, specimens of the wet-season form taken by the late Dr. Leith, and 

 by Col. Swinhoe in August, are in the author's collection, and also of the dry-season 

 form taken at Wangni in the Thannah district in November. These Bombay 

 examples, of both the wet and dry-season forms of this spec as, are much smaller 

 than both the North and South Indian specimens, the males measuring only 1^ and 

 the females r| to If inch in expanse. From S. India, a male of the wet-season 

 form, taken at Bridge in Trevandrum by Mr. H. S. Fergusson, is in Col. Swinhoe's 

 Collection, and is identical in size and markings beneath with the same sex from 

 Calcutta. Mr. Hampson (J. A. S. Beng. 1888, 348) obtained it on the Nilgiris, 

 taking the wet-season foi'm, as recorded in his MS. notes, from July to September, 

 and the dry-season form (which are smaller than N. Indian examples) from October 

 to February. In Burma, Mr. 0. Limborg (P. Z. S. 1878, 825) took it " atMoulmein, 

 Meetan 3000 feet, and Taoo 3000 to 5000 feet, in March ;" the dry-season form has 

 also been taken in the Thoungyeen forest, Tenasserim ; and numerous specimens 

 were obtained by Dr. J. Anderson (J. Linn. Soc. Lond. 1888, 32) from December to 

 March, in the Mergui Archipelago. 



LiPE-HiSTORT OF THE Dky-Season Brood. — In the Journal of the Asiatic Society 

 of Bengal, 1886, p. 236, Mr. de Niceville (pi. xii. f. 3) figures the larva and pupa of 

 this species, and gives the following details of the result of his breeding experiment of 

 the dry-season brood in Calcutta. " On Sept. 1st I placed two female i/. Mlneus 

 [the males of which have yellow patches on the wings] in a breeding-cage with glass 

 top and sides, into which I had previously introduced a pot of growing grass. The 



