280 NTMPHALID^. 
form occm-ring in India and Ceylon. In China the species is represented by 
two distinct forms which are apparently separate broods. The form figured 
(Plate XXV. figs. 8 $ , 1 j ) is generally considered to be the typical one, 
and is figured by Donovan and Cramer. It is distinguished by the angulated 
contour of the outer margin of primaries and absence of all the ocelli on 
the purplish-brown under surface of secondaries and at apex of primaries. 
The other form (Plate XXV. figs. 7 ? , 9 d ) is not angulated on outer 
margin of primaries ; the ground-colour of under surface is much paler, and 
the oceUi are well defined. The female of this form has much less blue on all 
the wings, and there are three reddish bars in the discoidal cell of primaries. 
Some of the specimens of this form agree almost exactly with ocyale, Hiibner, 
and wallacei. Distant *, both of which are considered to be local races of 
J. orithyia. 
Althouo-h I have examined hundreds of specimens of each of the forms 
figured in this work, I have not detected anything in the way of an intergrade 
connecting one form with the other. I am not inclined, however, to consider 
them distinct species, but simply regard them as well-defined (possibly 
seasonal) races of J. orithyia. In the North-west Himalayas /. orithyia is 
represented by a small pale form {sivinhoei, Butler), but none of the Chinese 
specimens approach this form. 
Mr. de Niccville states that " specimens from Upper Burma, Cachar, and 
Assam are richly marked on the underside, and are almost identical with the 
typical /. orithyia from China, which Mr. Butler has already shown, in the 
Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) xvi. p. 308 (188-3), to extend to Siam." 
Alpheraky (Rom. sur Lep. v. p. 114) records a specimen taken by Potanine 
in September near Joui-lin-gouan, Province of Kan-sou. , 
Widely distributed throughout India, Ceylon, Burma, China, the Malay 
Peninsula, Malacca, and Java. Specimens have been received by me from 
the Loochco Islands and Formosa, but so far the species does not appear 
to occur in Japan ; I am disposed, however, to think that it may yet be dis- 
covered in the Island of Kiushiu, which has been very little worked. 
Junonia asterie. 
PapiHo asterie, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. xii. p. 769 (1767) ; Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. Iviii. 
figs. D, E (1775). 
* Ehopal. Malay, p. 95, pi. xi. figs. 3, 4 (1883). 
