NYMPH ALINjE. (Group NYMPIIALINA.) 
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s( Kumaon; plains up to 6000 feet elevation (J. A. S. Bengal, 1886, 123), 
“ Common all the year at Lucknow. Might rapid, generally with out-spread wings, 
soaring along the ground so that it is difficult to trace them. Fond of fruits, 
particularly that of the Guava. Larva reared in Sept., on Barleria pvionitis (Capt. 
H. L. Chaumette, MS. Notes). “ Common in Sikkim up to 5000 feet, and found all 
the year round ” (H. J. Elwes, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 842). “ This is the commonest 
species of the genus in the Central Provinces, and is found everywhere. It is fond 
of hedges and ditches, and is a very sprightly and pugnacious butterfly (J. A. 
Bethune, J. Bombay N. H. S. 1890, 279). “ Commonly found in ditches all the year 
round, in Bombay and the Deccan ” (Col. C. Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1885, 128). Though 
not rare anywhere, this is the commonest butterfly in Bombay at the close of the 
rains and for some time after. It attains in old age to a degree of disreputability 
and raggedness not often seen in any other species. I am inclined to think this is 
the result of ineffectual attempts to catch it on the part of lizards, with which it is a 
favourite food. The larva feeds on Lippia nodijlova and Asteracantha lonyifoha , both 
very abundant in Bombay during the monsoon, by the side of, or actually in water. 
The larva is scarcely distinguishable from that of J. Almana. I have also found the 
lava on Barleria prionitis ” (E. H. Aitken, J. Bombay N. H. S. 1886, 181). 
u It frequents drier country than Asterie and Almana; it is also found in thick 
forest, where the larva feeds on Strobilanthus. The larva has two minute spines on 
the head, which are wanting or less developed in the others (id. 1896, 249). 
<c Common in the Travancore Hills up to 2500 feet elevation ” (H. S. Ferguson, 
J. Bombay N. H. S. 1891, 8). In Ceylon it “ occurs in the Eastern and Western 
Provinces, in low country forests and cultivated ground. Found occasionally, at 
uncertain intervals, at Colombo, more common on the road to Trincomalie. Flight 
quick; settles on the ground” (Lep. Ceylon, i. 41). “ Very common throughout 
Burma. I have one e sport’ caught in September on the Upper Chindwin, with all 
the markings, including the ocelli on the upperside of the wings, obsolete, with the 
exception of an indistinct submarginal paler line” (Col. C. H. E. Adamson, List, 
1897, 19). Signor L. Fea took it at Cheba in November, and at Palone in August. 
Commander A. Carpenter, B.N., obtained it at “ Sheemagar, Upper Burma, in Decem¬ 
ber, and at Katha in January” (Ann. N. H. 1886, 184), Mr. Otto Limborg took it 
at ce Ahsown, 2000 feet, Moulmein, Meetan, at 3000 feet, and at Taso, in March ” 
(P. Z. S. 1878, 828). Dr. J. Anderson found it <c very common in the Mergui 
Archipelago, in December, January, and March” (J. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, 35). 
Mr. H. Druce records it from Chentaboon and Nahconchaisee, Siam” (P. Z. S. 
1874, 105). 
Of our illustrations on Plate 313, fig. 1, la, d, e, represent the upper and 
underside of wet-season form, and fig. lb, c the underside of dry-season form. 
