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ou the least alai'in. In captivity they were very troublesome, running about incessantly 

 in indecent haste and often refusing to eat. Many, moreover, were destroyed by 

 a small ichneumon " (Davidson and Aitken, I.e.). 



Distribution and Habits. — Messrs. Davidson and Aitken record it as " very 

 common in the North Kanara District, in forest, everywhere and at all seasons, 

 restlessly flitting about from tree to tree, like Gupha and Atella, and alighting 

 frequently with wings half open or in motion " (Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1896, 

 252). Mr. L. de Niceville records it from " N. Kanara, Calicut, Nilgiris, the 

 Wynaad, and Travancore " (Butt. Ind. ii. 117, 118). Mr. G. F. Hampson found it 

 on the "Nilgiris, at 3000 to GOOO feet elevation. Commoner on the Southern than 

 on the Northern Slopes" (Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, 353). We possess 

 examples of the wet-season form from Koonoor, Nilgiris ; Kallaur, Travancore, 

 1500 feet, taken in February and April; Trevandrum, April; and from Mynall, 

 2000 feet, Travancore, April. Also dry-season form from the Nilgiris; Malabar; 

 and Trevandrum. 



CIRROCHROA LANKA. 



Wet-season form (Plate 369, fig. 1, lart-a and pti2)a ; fig. la, b, c, d, (J J ). 



Cirrochroa cognata, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 6i, pi. 32, fig. 3, 3a, ^J, larva and pupa (1881). dc 



Niccvme, Butt, of India, ii. p. 117 (1886). 

 Cirrochroa Thais, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 03, pi. 32, fig. 2, 2a, ? . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside uniformly rich fulvous. Forewiag with a slender 

 black slightly-defined discocellular streak ; a transverse inner-discal black sinuous 

 line which is more or less obsolescent hindward, its anterior portions most acute, 

 broadest, and bent inward from the upper median ; a broad outer marginal black 

 band traversed by a submarginal or inner row of fulvous acutely-dentate lunules ; 

 the anterior interspace between the marginal black band and the discal sinuous line 

 narrower than in the dry-season form. Hindioing with a slightly-defined slender 

 black inner-discal broken line bordered outwardly at the costal end by a white patch ; 

 followed by a discal row of black rounded spots ; two submarginal sinuous lines, the 

 inner line being less defined, and a broader marginal line, which latter mostly 

 extends to the extreme outer-edge. Underside reddish-ochreous, slightly washed 

 with pale violaceous-gi'ey ; subbasal line and discocellular streak slightly-defined ; 

 crossed by a medial-discal narrow band, which is either violaceous- white or more or 

 less violaceous-grey, or slightly paler than the ground-colour, its inner-edge more or 

 less distinctly defined by a brown sinuous line, which latter is dentate on the 

 forewing ; a discal series of obscure dusky dentate marks on fore wing; a row of 



