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Distribution.-— c< This is a very common species, seldom if ever occurring in 
the Himalayas, or in the very dry portions of India, but abundant in the plains 
throughout the area of heavy rainfall. Colonel Swinhoe does not record it from 
Bombay and the Deccan” (de Niceville, Butt. Ind. ii. 69). We possess specimens 
from Nepal; Sikkim; Bhotan ; Chittagong, taken in November; Yaw, Burma, taken 
in October; Mandalay; Bhamo, taken in November by Signor L. Fea; Tavoy; 
Tenasserim ; Ceylon; Camorta, Nicobars ; Malacca; Sumatra; Nias ; Java; Sarawak, 
Borneo; Hainan. Mr. W. Doherty records it as “ scarce at Ranibagli and in the 
Tarai, Kumaon, from 1000 up to 2000 feet elevation ” (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 128). 
“ It occurs rarely in Sikkim in the hottest valleys, but is common in the Terai at 
all seasons ” (H. J. Elwes, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 342). 
“ In the Central Provinces this butterfly is always found in and about marshy 
spots, on the borders of streams and damp places generally. The flight is distinctly 
slower than any of its relatives, so that there is no difficulty in capturing it ” (J. A. 
Beetham, J. Bombay N. H. S. 1890, 279). <c It is fairly common on the Kanara 
coast about rice-fields, chiefly at the end of the rains. It occurs also above the 
Ghauts. The larva is coloured more distinctively than the others, being dull smoky 
black with a well-defined orange-brown stripe above the legs. The pupa is of a 
uniform slaty colour ” (J. Davidson and E. H. Aitken, J. Bombay N. H. S. 1896, 
249). Colonel -C. H. E. Adamson records it as “ very common in Lower Burma, 
but comparatively scarce in the dry parts of Upper Burma ” (List, 1897,19). Dr. J. 
Anderson found it “ very common in Mergui, Tenasserim, in December, January, 
February, and March ” (J. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, 35). Mr. H. Druce records it 
from “ Chentaboon and Nakonchaisee, Siam” (P. Z. S. 1874, 105). Mr. J. J. 
Walker states having “ seen one or two specimens in local collections in Hong Kong, 
said to have been taken there, but did not meet with it himself” (Tr. Ent. Soc. 
1895, 453). 
JUNONIA OHITHYA (Plate 311, fig. 1, la, b, c, d, e, $ $; larva and jpupa). 
Papilio Orithya, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 473 (1758); id. ed. xii. p. 770 (1767). Cramer, Pap. 
Exot. i. pi. 19, fig. C, D, $ , pi. 32, fig. E, F, £ (1775); id. iv. pi. 290, fig. A, B, (1780). 
Herbst, Nat. Schmett. pi. 177, fig. 5, 6, 7, 8 ? (1794). Donovan, Ins. China, p. 64, pi 35 
fig. 2, ? (1842). 
Vanessa Orithya, Lucas, Lep. Exot. p. 113, p. 60, fig. 1 (1845). 
Junonia Orithya , Hiibner, Yerz. p. 34 (1816). Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 73 (1869). Moore, 
Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 41, pi. 22, fig. 1, la, b, <? ? , larva and pupa (1881). 
Junonia Orithyia, Doubleday and Hewits. Gen. D. Lep. i. p. 209 (1849). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. 
E. I. C. i. p. 141, pi. 5, fig. 5, 5a (1857). Forsayeth, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 382. Butler, 
Ann. Nat. Hist. 1885, p. 308. de Niceville, Butt. India, etc., ii. p. 73 (1886). 
