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gravid female in June, nineteen in July, and four in August. 

 In Rangoon in 1900 the rains broke on April 30, up to which 

 date I had no specimen of stolata. On May 30 I got a female 

 with eight eggs in an advanced stage of development. I have 

 never had the good fortune to meet with a pair in conjunction, 

 and have only had them rarely reported so. In Cannanore a 

 pair was reported in copula on May 24, and two pairs were 

 similarly reported on June 18. 



In Burma Theobald reported an egg-bound female — precise 

 locality not specified — in May, and Nicholson a similar 

 specimen in Rangoon in the same month. Evans and I had 

 gravid females in Rangoon twice in May, twice in June, twice 

 in July, and once in October. 



In Cannanore I had one egg-bound female in May, four in 

 June, and four in July. 



In Fyzabad I had one gravid female in June, nineteen in 

 July, and seven in August. 



Nicholson reported an egg-bound female in Bangalore in 

 August. 



In Dibrugarh I had twelve gravid in April, thirteen in May, 

 two in June, and one in July. In Shillong three specimens in 

 an advanced stage of impregnation were brought to me in 

 August. 



A specimen from Hakgalla. Ceylon (4,600 feet), was egg- 

 bound in September. 



In Rangoon I had a specimen that laid eggs in August. In 

 Cannanore a female deposited her eggs on July 29, and 

 another laid eggs in August. In Fyzabad one deposited eggs 

 in August. The Madras specimen, already referred to, ovi- 

 posited in August and September. 



I have frequently had eggs in clutches brought to me 

 unearthed after deposition under natural conditions. In 

 Rangoon once in June, in Dibrugarh several in May (once as 

 early as the 1st) and June, and in Shillong once in August. 



The full complement of eggs is discharged normally 

 within a few hours, but some specimens in captivity have 

 discharged them fitfully at intervals. A specimen I captured 

 in Fyzabad on July 7 laid one egg that night, and discharged 

 ten more on the night of the 12th of the same month. A 



