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LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
Sikkim, and is found up to about 8000 feet elevation almost throughout the year. 
The larva, in Sikkim, feeds on a species of Strobilanthus ” (L. de Mceville, Sikk. 
Gaz. 1894, 135). Col. C. H. E. Adamson records it as being found “ throughout 
Burma” (List, 1897, p. 18). Dr. J. Anderson took it in the Mergui Archipelago in 
November, December, January, and March (Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, 85). 
We possess specimens from Western China. 
Eood-Plant of Larva. —“ The larva feeds on the Karvi, Strobilanthus callosus , 
at Ear war, Bombay” (Davidson and Aitken, J. Bombay N. H. S. 1890, 71). 
JTJNONIA HOPFFERI. 
Precis Hopfferi, Mosehler, Stett. Eat. Zeit. 1872, p. 337, ? . 
Junonia Hopfferi, de Nieeville, Butt. India, etc., ii. p. 71 (1886). 
“ The shape of the forewing resembles that of Precis Erigone , but the hindwing 
is not angled as in several species of the genus. The ground-colour of both wings 
on the upperside is of a clear golden-brown, as in many females of P. Iphita, Cram. 
[ida, Cram.], but is shaded by a dark brown dusting, so that it [the ground-colour] 
only appears in a triangular spot at the base of the discoidal cell, in a narrow trans¬ 
verse spot at end of the cell, in a narrow band behind the transverse series of dark 
spots which crosses the middle of the wings, and in a broader band in front of the 
margin. In the discoidal cell in front of the middle are two obliquely-placed round 
dark brown spots with clear golden-brown centres ; behind these is a large misshapen 
kidney-like spot surrounded with black. In the middle of the wings the dark 
dusting is bounded by a series of dark brown transverse spots which enter angularly 
into the fourth cell. In front of the light margin is placed a series of black-brown 
round spots, of which the three upper ones in the fifth, sixth, and eighth cells are 
only brown on the innerside, being otherwise white, and of these the spot in the fifth 
cell approaches the margin, thereby dropping out of the line of the others; the 
lowest spot in the second cell is the largest, and surrounded with a fine golden- 
brown, Behind these spots runs through all the cells a series of broad lunular spots, 
and behind them this again runs a dark brown undulating streak following the 
margin which runs in an angle into the fifth cell. The margin is narrowly black- 
brown in colour, but marked finely with white externally between the veins. On the 
underside the colouring is clearer, brownish ochre-gold, the light parts being almost 
reddish-gold; the spots of the cell are encircled with fine black, the series of dark 
spots through the middle of the wings lighter brown and less distinct on the margin 
are bordered with white violet-red spots on the forewing in cells one b and two, also in 
cells five and six, and in the hindwing in all the cells* The dark bands of the 
