IXIAS. 195 



607. Ixias verna, Druce, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 108, pi. 16, figs. 5, 6, 3 $ ; 

 Watson, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. viii, 1894, pp. 503-507 ; Butler, 

 A. M. N. H. (7) i, 1898, p. 142. 



Ixias latifasciala, Butler, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 252, pi. 19, fig. 3, <$ only. 

 Ixias pallida et citrina, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 837. 



Race andamana. 



Ixias andamana, Moore, P. Z.S. 1877, p. 590 ; Grose-Smith 8f Kirby, 



Rhop. Ex. i, 1888, Ixias, p. 1, pi. 1, figs. 1-3, <J 2 ; Watson, Jour. 



Bomb. N. H. Soc. viii, 1894, pp. 503-507 ; JJutler, A. M. N. H. 



(7) i, 1898, p. 142. 

 Ixias lena, Swinhoe, A. M. N. H. (6) v, 1890, p. 357 ; Watson, 



Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. viii, 1894, pp. 507-524. 



Wet-season brood. c? . Upperside : white, apical half of fore and 

 terminal margin of hind wing black. The white ground-colour 

 suffused with very pale sulphur-yellow, this colour deepens to 

 a pure sulphur along the margins of the areas occupied by the 

 ground-colour. Tore wing : base shaded with blackish scales ; 

 the black apical half with a large oblique orange patch that 

 occupies the middle of interspace 2, basal two-thirds or more of 

 interspaces 3 to 6, 10 and 11, and extends into the apex of cell 

 where it is interrupted by a black spot on the discocellulars ; this 

 in some specimens ( J. pallida, Moore) entirely tills the lower apex 

 of the cell. Underside : sulphur-yellow, the fore wing posteriorly 

 below the cell much paler; both wings with sparsely scattered 

 fusco-ferruginous strigae and minute dots ; the spot on the disco- 

 cellulars the most prominent. $ . Somewhat similar to the <$ . 

 Upperside : the pale sulphur-yellow ground-colour much restricted; 

 on the fore wing it extends only over the basal two-thirds of 

 interspaces 1 a and 1, and the basal fourth of interspace 2; the 

 orange patch much narrower and irregular, 'forms a short curved 

 band beyond apex of cell that does not quite reach the costal 

 margin ; a large elongate spot with a small black spot within the 

 orange, towards its apex, in interspace 3 and an irregular hatchet- 

 shaped spot below this in interspace 2. Hind wing: the black on the 

 terminal margin spreads over fully one-third of the wing. Under- 

 side : similar to that of the <$ , the fusco-ferruginous strigee more 

 numerous, the discocellular spots much larger, an obscure discal 

 series of transverse reddish spots on both wings ; on the fore 

 wing a very large and prominent patch of reddish brown above 

 the tornus. 



Dry-season brood (/. citrina, Moore). Differs from the wet- 

 season form as follows : tf $ Upper side fore wing : the orange 

 patch slightly wider ; hind wing : the black terminal margin 

 narrower. Underside : both wings with more or less prominent 

 transverse discal series of reddish-brown spots, centred with white, 

 the fusco-ferruginous strigaa and minute spots more abundant. 

 Antennae deep reddish brown, head and thorax anteriorly with a 

 little reddish-brown pubescence ; abdomen above black, beneath : 

 pale yellowish white. 



Exp. ^ $ 53-62 mm. (2-1-2-45"). 



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