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form was obtained by Colonel A. M. Lang, and also in Oudh (Ent. Mag. 1864, 
182). Mr. L. de Niceville also took it in the Deyra Dhoon (Butt. Ind. i. 113), and 
Mr. J. A. Betliam (J. Bomb. N. H. S. 1890, 156) obtained it in the Central Pro¬ 
vinces, remarking that “ these little butterflies are shade lovers, and lie hidden under 
the trees and bushes during the day time; they are active and restless in the morn¬ 
ing and evening, and also when the day happens to be dark and cloudy. They have 
a skipping kind of flight when started from the shades they love; they are, however, 
easily caught and killed.” In Orissa, Mr. Taylor records its capture at Khurda, “ the 
dry-season brood being very common in November.” Mr. L. de Niceville (J. A. S. 
Beng. 1885, 41) says, “ the ocellated form occurs somewhat sparsely during the 
rains in the Calcutta district, the unocellated form being met with only in the cold 
and dry weather.” Mr. Wood-Mason (J. A. S. Beng. 1887, 348) records “ numerous 
specimens of both sexes of the ocellated form, taken in Cachar during the rainy sea¬ 
son between May 26th and August 9th, and four males only of the unocellated form 
were taken at the end of the dry season between the 3rd and 5th of May.” The dry- 
season form has been taken in the Khasia Hills (Butt. Ind. i. 113), and examples of 
both the wet and dry-season forms from the Naga Hills are in Mr. P. Crowley’s collec¬ 
tion. In Sikkim, according to Mr. H. J. Elwes (Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, 303), 
“this species is not common, but occurs in the Terai and up to 3000 feet; medics, 
the rainy-season form, occurs from May to September, and runeka from October to 
March, though there may be occasional instances of either forms being taken out of 
season. Runeka seems more abundant than medics , which is rather an insect of the 
plains than the hills.” Mr. O. Moller took the rainy-season form in the Sikkim Terai 
in August and September, and Mr. de Niceville the dry-season form in October 
(Butt. Ind. i. 112). In Upper Burma, the unocellated form was taken by Com¬ 
mander A. Carpenter in December, on the Irrawaddy, thirty miles above 
Mandalay (Ann. Nat. Hist. 1886, 183). Dr. N. Manders (Tr e Ent. Soc. 
1890, 517) says it is “not a common insect in the Shan States, but common 
enough in Upper Burma.” Major C. H. E. Adamson (List of Burmese 
butterflies) says it is “very common throughout Burma, medus during the rainy 
season, and runeka from October to March.” Mr. O. Limborg (P. Z. S. 1878, 
825) obtained the dry-season form during the cold weather in Upper Tenasserim, at 
Ahsown, from Moulmein to Meetan, at Hatseiga, and from Naththoung to Paboga.” 
Mr. Oates obtained the wet-season form in Pegu in May. Captain C. T. Bingham 
has taken the dry-season form in the Donat range, and at Mepley and various parts 
of the Thoungyeen valley. Mr. C. T. Hill took it at Tavoy in March (Butt. Ind. i. 
112). Mr. H. J. Elwes (J. A. S. Beng. 1887, 418) also records it from Tavoy. Dr. 
J. Anderson (Journ. Linn. Soc. 1886, 32) obtained specimens in the Mergui Archi¬ 
pelago in December and March. In the Nicobar Islands* the wet-season form is 
