PAPILIOXID.E.-PIEPtlXyE. 



IX IAS. I. 



I.-IXIAS ANDAMANA. $ Fig. 1 ; $ Figs. 2, 3. 



Ixias Anihi)iiana, Moore, " Proceedings of the Zoological Society of Loudou," 

 1877, p. 690. 



Exp. 2^ inches. 



Male. Upperside pale primrose, shading into a rather deeper colour at the 

 edges, especially at the anal angle of the hind wings, where the colour is almost 

 sulphur-yellow ; fore wings with the apical half black, with a broad oblique 

 orange-red Ijand, divided into nine spots by the nervures (eight longitudinal 

 and one irregularly-shaped) at the upper extremity of the cell; base narrowly 

 and costa to the cell blackish, dusted with pale yellow. Hind wings with a 

 moderately broad black border, which narrows and ceases rather suddenly at 

 the anal angle. Fringes of all the wings pale yellow. 



Underside bright yellow, paler on the lower half of the fore wings. Fore 

 wings with the costa narrowly black, a large irregular black spot at the end of 

 the cell, and a recurved row of seven black spots running from the costa before 

 the tip to the hinder angle, where the seventh spot forms a large blotch. Hind 

 wings with a small irregular black mai'k at the end of the cell, and a sub- 

 marginal row of dull orange spots, that nearest the costa being the largest, and 

 dusted with black, and only the three first of the following spots distinct. The 

 ends of the uervules are marked with black dots on all the wings. 



Female. Upperside rather paler than in the male, the orange-red band 

 much narrower and shorter, the spot at the end of the discoidal cell merely 

 indicated ; the last but two of the longitudinal spots is contracted on both sides, 

 forming the narrowest part of the band ; the spot beneath this is the largest, 

 and is marked with a large black spot, hardly disconnected from the border, at 

 the extremity ; of the lowest spot only a curved rudiment is visible at the 

 extremity. 



Underside as in the male, but the spots are much larger and darker, being 

 distinctly blackish, the four upper ones on all the wings, and the discoidal spot 

 of the fore wings centred with white. 



Hab. Andamans. 



In the Collection of Heulov Grose Smith. 

 VOL. I., JULT, 1888. 



