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distinguishable from each other, except in localities where the seasons are better 
marked than in Sikkim.” Mr. de Niceville (Butt. Ind. i. 122) says that the dry- 
season form cc is the commonest in the Sikkim Terai and Hills, and that it occurs 
also in Upper Assam.” Mr. J. Wood-Mason (J. A. S. Beng. 1887, 848) records 
seventy-five males, and seventeen females of the wet-season form from Oachar, taken 
in Silcnri and the forests around between 26th May and 25th August; a single male 
of the dry-season form being obtained in Silchar on 3rd April.” The dry-season 
form has been taken at Malda by Mr. Irvine (Coll. Swinhoe). From the Calcutta 
district we possess males and females of the wet and dry-season forms, taken by the 
late Mr. W. S. Atkinson, A. E. Russell, and more recently by Mr. Charlton Swinhoe. 
Mr. RothnejT- (Ent. Mo. Mag, 1882, 34) records it as common at Barrackpore, near 
Calcutta, cc being fond of shade, and settling mostly in long grass.” Mr. de Niceville 
(J. A. S. Beng. 1885, p. 42) states that the ocellated form is tc not uncommon during 
the rainy season,” and the unocellated form C4 common during the cold and hot 
weather.” Examples of the wet-season form from Durbunga in Behar are in the 
British Museum. Examples of the wet season form from Pachmari in Central India, 
taken by Mr. Betham in October, are in Col. Swinhoe 5 s collection. From the 
Bombay district, specimens of the wet-season form taken by the late Dr. Leith, and 
by Col, Swinhoe in August, are in the author’s collection, and also of the dry-season 
form taken at Wangni in the Thannah district in November. These Bombay 
examples, of both the wet and dry-season forms of this spec es, are much smaller 
than both the North and South Indian specimens, the males measuring only If and 
the females If to If inch in expanse. From S. India, a male of the wet-season 
form, taken at Bridge in Trevandrum by Mr. H. S. Fergusson, is in Cob Swinhoe’s 
Collection, and is identical in size and markings beneath w T ith the same sex from 
Calcutta. Mr. Hampson (J. A. S. Beng. 1888, 348) obtained it on the Nilgiris, 
taking the wet-season form, as recorded in his MS. notes, from July to September, 
and the dry-season form (which are smaller than N. Indian examples) from October 
to February. In Burma, Mr. 0. Limborg (P. Z. S. 1878, 825) took it “atMoulmein, 
Meetan 3000 feet, and Taoo 3000 to 5000 feet, in Marchthe dry-season form has 
also been taken in the Thoungyeen forest, Tenasserim; and numerous specimens 
were obtained by Dr. J. Anderson (J. Linn. Soc. Lond. 1888, 32) from December to 
March, in the Mergui Archipelago. 
Life-histoey of the Dey-Season Beood. —In the Journal of the Asiatic Society 
of Bengal, 1886, p. 236, Mr. de Niceville (pi. xii. f. 3) figures the larva and pupa of 
this species, and gives the following details of the result of his breeding experiment of 
the dry-season brood in Calcutta. “ On Sept. 1st I placed two female M. Mineus 
[the males of which have yellow patches on the wings] in a breeding-cage with glass 
top and sides, into which I had previously introduced a pot of growing grass. The 
