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"Kumaon; plains up to 6000 feet elevation" (J. A. S. Bengal, 1886, 123). 

 " Common all tlie year at Luck now. Flight rapid, generally with out-spread wings, 

 soaring along the ground so that it is difficult to trace them. Fond of fruits, 

 particularly that of the Guava. Larva reared in Sept., on Barler la prionitis" (Capt. 

 H. L. Chauniette, MS. Notes). " Common in Sikkim up to 500U feet, and found all 

 the year round " (H. J. Elwes, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 342). " This is the commonest 

 species of the genus iu the Central Provinces, and is found everywhere. It is fond 

 of hedges and ditches, and is a very sprightly and pugnacious butterfly " (J. A. 

 Bethune, J. Bombay N. H. S. 1890, 279). " Commonly found in ditches all the year 

 round, in Bombay and the Deccan " (Col. C. Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1885, 128). " Though 

 not rare anywhere, this is the commonest butterfly in Bombay at the close of the 

 rains and for some time after. It attains in old age to a degree of disreputability 

 and raggednc'BS not often seen in any other species. I am inclined to think this is 

 the result of ineffectual attempts to catch it on the part of lizards, with which it is a 

 favourite food. The larva feeds on Lippia nodiflora and Asteracantha longifolia, both 

 very abundant in Bombay during the monsoon, by the side of, or actually in water. 

 The larva is scarcely distinguishable from that of J. Almana. I have also found the 

 lava on Barleria prionitis" (E. H. Aitken, J. Bombay N". H. S. 1886, 131). 

 "It frequents drier country than Asterie and Almana; it is also found iu thick 

 forest, where the larva feeds on Strohilanilms. The larva has two minute spines on 

 the head, vrhich are wanting or less developed in the others (/'</. 1896, 249). 

 " Common in the Travancore Hills up to 2500 feet elevation " (H. S. Ferguson, 

 J. Bombay N. H. S. 1S91, 8). In Ceylon it "occurs in the Eastern and AVesteru 

 Provinces, iu low country forests and cultivated ground. Found occasionally, at 

 uncertain intervals, at Colombo, more common on the road to Trincomalie. Flight 

 quick; settles on the gi'ound " (Lep. Ceylon, i. 41). "Very common throughout 

 Burma. I have one ' sport ' caught in September on the Upper Chindwin, with all 

 the markings, including the ocelli on the upperside of the wings, obsolete, with the 

 exception of an indistinct submargiual paler line " (Col. 0. H. E. Adamson, List, 

 1897, 19). Signor L. Fea took it at Cheba in November, and at Palone in August. 

 Commander A. Carpenter, K.N., obtained it at "Sheemagar, Upper Burma, in Decem- 

 ber, and at Katha in January" (Ann. N. H. 1886, 184). Mr. Otto Limborgtook it 

 at " Ahsown, 2000 feet, Moulmein, Meetan, at 3000 feet, and at Taso, in March " 

 (P. Z. S. 1878, 828). Dr. J. Anderson found it " very common in the Mergui 

 Archipelago, in December, January, and March " (J. Linn. Soc. Zool, 1886, 35). 

 Mr. H. Druce records it from Chentaboon and Nahconchaisee, Siam" (P. Z. S. 

 1874, 105). 



Of our illustrations on Plate 313, fig. 1, la, d, e, represent the upper and 

 underside of icd-season form, and fig. lb, c the underside of dry-season form. 



