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Hills" (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1893, 288). Mr. E. H. Aitken observed it as "rare at 

 Mahableshwar, Bombay." 



Mr. W. Dolierty records it from " Kumaon generally, at 2000 to 8000 feet eleva- 

 ton" (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 122). Major J. W. Yerbury obtained the male at 

 "Murree, N.W. Himalayas, in August" (P. Z. S. 1886, 363). Mr. S. N. Ward took 

 it in " Malabar and Kanara," Mr. G. F. Hampson took it " throughout the Nilgiri 

 District," and remarks that the yellow form does not occur there (J. A. S. Beng. 

 1888, 355). Mr. H. S. Ferguson records it as "common on the Travancore Hills " 

 (J. Bombay N. H. S. 1891, 9). Capt. E. Y. Watson took "numerous specimens at 

 Kathlekan, Mysore, in November, and at the Gersoppa Falls in January {id. 1890, 5). 

 " Common in Sikkim up to about 6000 feet elevation, from March to December " 

 (H. J. Elwes, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 365). In the British Museum is an ochreous 

 female from Bhotan, taken in July, others of the white form from Tilin Yaw, Burma, 

 taken in November, Papuu in December, and King Island, Mergui, December. Dr. 

 F. Manders records it from " Fort Stedman, Shan States, and Eastern Karenee, 

 Burma" (Tr. Ent, Soc. 1890, 525). 



Habits of Imago. — " This beautiful insect, very appropriately called ' the map 

 butterfly,' is frequently to be seen soaring backwards and forwards over some 

 mountain stream, wilt richly wooded sides. It frequently settles, often with wide- 

 spread wings, on a quartz rock, where, by reason of its coloration and markings, it 

 is almost impossible to see. It has also a habit of suddenly settling on the underside 

 of some broad leaf overhanging the water, with wings wide outspread, a feat of 

 gymnastics I have never seen any other butterfly accomplish. It is on the wing 

 from early summer, and I have taken perfect specimens as late as the middle of 

 November at Simla" (de Niceville, Indiau Agriculturist, 1880). "A Western- 

 Himalayan forest-insect, diflicult to capture at all. It generally frequents a well- 

 wooded glen ; and in such a place I have often watched its elegant soaring flight, 

 far out of reach, as it flcated over the blossoms of the horse-chestnut (Pari a indica), 

 or rested on its broad leaves in the sunshine. I have also seen it floating up and 

 down the foliage-covered face of a steep cliff overhanging a hill torrent, and rarely 

 would it come within reach " (Capt. A. M. Lang, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1864, 132). " The 

 ' map butterfly ' is pretty common throughout the Karwar District of Bombay, in 

 suitable situations — such as clear streams of running water among rocks, with trees 

 growing over it, on which the butterfly may rest, pressed flat against the underside 

 of a leaf. Curiously enough it lays its eggs on the Banian tree (Pictis indica), which 

 is not a tree at all peculiar to such situations (J. Davidson and E. H. Aitken, 

 J. Bombay N. H. S. 1896, 256 ; id. 1890, 351). 



Food-Plants of Larva. — A female was noticed by Mr. J. R. Bell, on 

 October 10th, depositing its eggs on the tenderest leaves and buds of the Banian tree 



