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while ordinata is the wet-season form. I have ventured to put Walker's 

 two species hiihneri [recte huehneri'] and argus under avanta, as I do not 

 believe that either of them are found in Hongkong, and that they have 

 been wrongly identified. T. avanta is found in the Western Himalayas, 

 in the plains of the North-Western Provinces, at Ranchi and Bholahat 

 in Maldah, both in the plains of Bengal, in the Eastern Himalayas, 

 in the Ganjam district of Eastern India, throughout Burma, and on the 

 West River in Southern China. It has not been bred, but the larva 

 will be found on grasses. 



17. Melanitis ismene, Cramer. 



Papilio ismene, Cramer, Pap. Ex., vol. i, p. 40, pi. xxvi, figs. A, B, male, dry- 

 season form (1775) ; Melanitis determinata, BnUer, FroG. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1885, p. 

 vi, Melanitis leda, Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1895, p. 449, n. 18. 



This species in seasonally dimorphic, the dry-season form being 

 ismene, the wet-season form is determinata. The larva feeds on rice, 

 Oryza sativa, Linnaeus, on large, coarse grasses, all of the natural order 

 Graminea3. 



18.* Melanitis bela, Moore. 



Melanitis hela, Moore, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. E.I.C., vol. i, p, 223, n. 

 465 (1857); Cyllo aswa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, p. 769; Melanitis aswa, 

 Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1895, p. 449, n. 19. 



This species is also seasonally dimorphic, hela being the wet-season 

 form, aswa the dry-season form. Walker records one specimen taken 

 at Kowloon late in 1891. I have not seen it from thence, but do not 

 doubt the correctness of the record. It occurs in Western China, and 

 as far westwards again as Kashmir. It has not been bred. 



Subfamily AMATHUSIIN^. 



19. Discophora tullia, Cramer. 



Papilio tullia, Cramer, Pap. Ex., vol. i, p. 127, pi. Ixxxi, figs. A, B, female (1775) ; 

 Discophora tullia, Staudinger, Ex. Schmett., p. 189, pi. Ixni, female (1887) ; Walker, 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1895, p. 449, n. 20 ; Moore, Lep. Ind., vol. ii, p. 197 (1895) ; 

 Fruhstorfer, Berl. Ent. Zeitsch., vol. xlv, p. 13 (1900). 



As far as is known, the larvae of all the species of this genus feed on 

 Bamhusa sp., Natural Order Graminese, and are gregarious, very hairy, 

 and are frequently mistaken for the larvae of moths. 



20. Clerome eumeds, Drury. 



Danais Festivus eumeus, Drury, 111. Ex. Ins., vol. i, p. 4, pi. ii, figs. 3, male, 

 upper — and underside {1770} ; Clerome eumeus, Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 



