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season form of this species as above described and figured, from the widely spread 
areas in which it is found; as follows :— Wet and dry form from Kashmir, taken by 
Capt. R. Bayne Reed; Simla; Campbellpur, wet, June, dry, November ; Thundiani, 
wet and dry, September; Hassan Abdal, wet , June; Rawalpindi, wet , September, 
taken by Col. J. W. Yerbury; Nepal (Genl. G. Ramsay) ; Darjiling, and Bhotan 
(Mr. G. C. Dudgeon) ; Ahmednuggur, wet and dry, July, October ; Karachi, wet, June ; 
Bombay, wet, June, dry, January ; Poona, wet, June and July ; Belgaum, dry, August, 
taken by Col. C. Swinhoe ; Nilgiris, web and dry (Mr. G. F. Hampson) ; Madras, wet ; 
Ceylon, wet and dry; Barrackpur, Calcutta, wet and dry (J. F. Rothney) ; Assam 
ivet; Chittagong, wit, June, September ; Rangoon, ivet, August (Col. C. T. Bingham) ; 
Burma, ivet (Col. Adamson) ; Mergui (Dr. Anderson) ; Andamans; Nicobars (Mr. F. 
de Roepstorff) ; Malacca, wet; Nias, wet; Sumatra, wet and dry; Java, wet and dry 
(Dr. Horsfield) ; S. E. China, ivet and dry. Col. C. Swinhoe possesses verified 
specimens from Karachi, dry form taken in January, September, October, and 
November; Bombay, dry, March ; Sattara ; Belgaum, wet, October; Poona, ivet, July. 
Col. C. T. Bingham has specimens from Jabulpur, ivet , September; Nowgong, 
Assam, dry, November; Pegu, wet, April and May; Siam and Tonkin. 
Capt. A. M. Lang obtained it in the “ Simla Hills” (Ent, M. Mag. 1864, 104). 
Capt. Chaumette “ captured it in Oudh ” ( l.c . 1865, 37). Mr. J. H. Hocking took 
it at “ Dharmsala, Kangra District ” (P. Z. S. 1882, 252). Mr. W. Doherty records 
it as being found “ everywhere, in Kumaon, up to 8,000 feet, occasionally higher” 
(J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 135). “This is the commonest species of the genus in Masuri 
and the Dehra Dun” (Mr. P. W. Mackinnon, J. Bombay N. H. S. 1898, 586). 
Col. C. Swinhoe records it from “Karachi, appearing plentifully from April to 
August” (P. Z. S. 1884, 507). Also “common everywhere in Bombay and the 
Dekkan from October to May” (id. 1885, 136), and at “Mhow in February, July, 
September, October, and November ” (id. 1886, 430). Col. Swinhoe also obtained 
one example of the variety curiosa, at Karachi in August, 1879 (id. 1884, 508). 
Mr. G. F. Hampson records it from the “Nilgiris” (J. As. S. Beng. 1838,361). 
Capt. E. Y. Watson obtained “ numerous specimens in Mysore during November ” 
(J. Bomb. N. H. S. 1890, 7), and records it as “common in Madras in May, June, 
and July” (J. A. S. Beng. 1890, 267). Dr. N. Manders says it is “abundant 
everywhere in Ceylon, and occurs at all seasons, the larva feeding on the Madras 
Thorn” (J. A. S. Beng. 1899, 212). Mr. II. S. Ferguson found it “common in 
Travancore, S. India, in low country and the Hills” (J. Bombay N. H. S. 1891, 
43). Mr. W. C. Taylor says it is “common at Khorda, Orissa” (List, p. 13). 
Mr. J. Rothney found it “ very common in Barrackpur Park, near Calcutta, from 
March to October, especially during the rains, and is a lover of sunshine” (Ent. M. 
Mag. 1882, 35). Mr. L, de Niceville also records it as “ common at all seasons in 
