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ground-colour creamy-white, the basal and marginal area very pale yellowish- 

 ochreous, or pale greyish-ochreous, the basal area being also delicately tinted more or 

 less with very pale olive-green ; basal and marginal markings as in wet-season form, 

 but more or less indistinctly-defined, and all of a pale ochreous, variable in shades of 

 intensity in certain specimens, and defined with whiter borders. Underside white 

 with a delicate pinkish flush ; markings as above, pale ochreous, but more or less ill- 

 defined ; marginal ocelli and anal spot black. 



Expanse, S ? 2 to 2i^o inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim ; Bhotan ; Khasias ; Silhet ; Orissa; Burma; Siam ; Tenas- 

 serim ; Andamans ; Malay Peninsula. 



Distribution. — " Extremely rare in Sikkim, which is probably the westernmost 

 limit of its range ; single specimens have been taken at Singla and Sivoke, at low 

 elevations in the spring and autumn. The difference in coloration observed in 

 this species may be due to seasonal causes. Mr. Gr. C. Dudgeon has observed that 

 the green form occurs in March and the bi'own form from August to September " 

 (de Niceville, Sikkim Gaz. (1894), 146). We possess a pale-coloured male of the 

 brown form from Bhotan, taken by Mr. Dudgeon. Mr. de Niceville records specimens 

 of both the white and brown forms from Khurda in Orissa, Tenasserim, Andamans, 

 and Perak (Butt. lud. ii. 254). Numerous specimens of both forms have been 

 received by Col. C. Swinhoe from the Khasias. The type specimen is recorded, by 

 Fabricius, from Siam, and is still in the Banksian Cabinet in the British Museum. 

 Mr. P. Crowley possesses a male of the brown form identical with the type, also 

 from Siam, and a pale-coloured male of the brown form from Shillong. Col. C. H. E. 

 Adamson obtained the pale form " near Moulmein, on the Hlinebwe River ; but rare ; 

 in August and February" (List, 1897, 26), and says, in epistola, "that when flying 

 it may be mistaken for Junonia Atlites, which was exceedingly common at the 

 same place." Dr. N. Manders obtained the pale form in Eastern Karenee, Burma 

 (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1890, 525). A male and female of both forms from the Andamans 

 and Perak are in Mr. P. Crowley's collection. A female of the pale form from 

 Salanga Island is in the British Museum. "We possess a female of the pale form from 

 Hainan. In the numerous specimens of both the wet and dry-season forms we have 

 under examination we observe various degrees of shades in the intensity of the 

 colour of the basal and marginal area and markings, which evidently show a grada- 

 tional mergence from one form to the other. 



Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 308, figs. 1, la, b represent a male 

 and female of the vet-season form from the Khasia Hills, identical with the Fabrician 

 type of OocZes in the British Museum, and figs. Ic, d, e, a male and female of the 

 dry-season form ; fig. Ic, being a Burmese male, and fig. Id, e, an Andaman 

 female. 



