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“a few at Kandahar in October and November in 1880. It was very plentiful in 
March and April following. The gardens about Kandahar were alive with regular 
swarms of this butterfly in the last month, but I did not observe it at Quetta or 
anywhere else on our lines of communication between Sibi and Kandahar ” (Tr. Ent. 
Soc. 1885, 339). At Karachi it was plentiful in several months of the year. I took 
it in January, February, June, July, August, and December 55 (id. P. Z. S. 1884, 505), 
Capt. H. L. De la Ohaumette reared the “ larva at Lucknow, in October, 1860, on 
Gnaphalium indicum, the imago emerging on November 15th” (MS. Notes). “In 
Sikkim, this cosmopolitan butterfly is found throughout the year at low elevations, 
but more commonly in the winter. In the summer it is found up to 12,000 feet 
elevation” (de Niceville, Sikkim Graz. 1894,144). In Bombay “it is found sparingly 
throughout the District. At times it appears in great numbers, continues for a week 
or two, and disappears again. As is well known, it is a migratory butterfly, and is 
known in almost every part of the world. It has a rapid, irregular flight, and is fond 
of settling on the ground, and on rocks. We have found larvm in Kanara in 
November, feeding on Zornia diphylla , and on a thistle-like plant of the genus 
Blumea , which is its common food in other parts of the Presidency also ” (J. David¬ 
son and E. H. Aitken, J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1896, 256). “ The larvm are social 
when very young, half a dozen living together under the shelter of a little network 
of silk. The butterfly is not very easy to catch, being a strong flier and wary. It 
rarely settles, except on the ground, and opens its wings much less than the Junonias ” 
(E. H. Aitken, id. 1886, 131). “At different times of the year, but most often, I 
think, in June, large numbers of this butterfly appear about the rocks on the sea¬ 
shore, or in other barren situations, and I am inclined to think they are new arrivals 
from some other country. A certain number remain permanently with us, and breed 
on a common species of Blumea ” (id. 1897, 337). In Ceylon, “it is fouud every¬ 
where, but is more plentiful in the higher districts ” (F. M. Mackwood, Lep. Ceyl. 
i. 50). “In Burma this is a rare butterfly. I took one in February near Bhamo, 
and one in December in North Yen. I have received it from the Chin Hills, and saw 
one so far South as Mandalay, in January. One was also obtained at Nimbu ” (Col. 
C. H. E. Adamson, List, 1897, 25). Mr. W. L. Distant records it from Penang 
(Rhop. Malay. Preface, p. vi.). We have examples from Sumatra, Java, Formosa, 
and Japan. Mr. J. J. Walker, R.N., found it “ not very common in Hong Kong from 
December to May 55 (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1895, 457). Mr. J. H. Leech also obtained it in 
China and Japan. It is also recorded from the Philippines. 
Indo-Malayan Species. —Vanessa Dejeanii , Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. Suppl. 
p. 821 (1823). Boisd. Spec. Gen. Lep. i. pi. 10, fig. 2 (1836). Habitat. 
Java .—Vanessa Samani (Pryameis Samani, Hagen, Iris, vii. p. 359 (1894). 
Habitat . Sumatra. 
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