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Dry-season Brood (Figs. Id, $, le, ? = Gaea). 



Male. Upperside paler than the Wet-season form, the black on the veins and the 

 outer marginal bands much narrower, the sub-apical blue spots in the band much 

 larger and more numerous. Underside coloured as in the other form, but paler, the 

 veins thinner on the hindwing, with the exception of the sub-costal nervure, they 

 are usually unmarked. 



Female. Differs from the other form in a similar manner, the colouring being 

 paler and the streaks broader and the sub-marginal spots much larger. 



Expanse, $ ? 2^^ to 3^ inches. 



Extreme Dry-season Brood (Fig. Ig, ?). 



A small pale form, differing from the above in both sexes in its size and the pale- 

 ness and thinness of its markings. 



Expanse, $ $ 2^-^ to 2^*^ inches. 



Larva. ^Davidson, Bell and Aitken say that the larvae feed on the same plant as 

 those of Pingasa, and that they differ in having the tail points more widely and 

 squarely separated. 



Habitat. — Continental India and Burma except the Desert Tracts. 



Distribution. — We have taken both forms at Bombay, Poona, Khandalla, 

 Alibagh, Matheran, and Purundur, all in the Bombay Presidency ; we have it also 

 from Eaipur and Eangoon. Elwes reports it from Tavoy and Sikkim ; de Nice- 

 ville from Calcutta and Chin Lushai ; Doherty from Kumaun and Naini Tal ; 

 Hampson from the Nilgiris ; Fergusson from Travancore ; Mackinnon from Mussuri ; 

 de Rhe-Philipe from Lucknow ; Manders from the Shan States ; it is also in the B. M. 

 from Malabar. 



Note. — The females of all the forms have often a suffusion of dark yellow on the 

 abdominal portion of the hindwings above. 



PARERONIA PINGASA. 



Plate 608, figs. 1, <? , la, ? , lb, i ,\c, ? (Wet-season Brood), Id, <J , le, ? , If, (J , Ig, ? (Dry-season 

 Brood), Ih (Larva), li (Pupa). 



Eronia Pingasa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 565. 



Neplieronia Pincjasa, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 612. Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, 

 p. 363. Davidson and Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 357. Davidson, Bell and 

 Aitken, id. 1897, p. 573, pi. 6, fig. 4 (Larva), 4a (Pupa). Pergusson, id. 1891, p. 445. 



Pareronia Pingasa, Bingham (part), Pauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 280 (1907). 



Neplieronia Compacta, Butler, Cist. Ent. 1874, p. 235. 

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