of the Genus Ixias. 143 



27. Ixias marianne. 



Papilio marianne, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. ccxvii. C-E (1782). 



Ixias bebryce, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 95 (1816). 



Ixias agniverna, Moore, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xx. p. 50 



(1877). 



Ixias depalpura, Butler, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 153, pi. xxiv. figs. 6, 7. 

 Ixias meridional, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 140, pi. ix. fig. 5. 

 Ixias cumballa, Swinhoe, t. c. p. 141, pi. ix. figs. 13, 14. 



We have twenty-five examples of the wet-season form 

 (/. cumballa), thirteen of the intermediate form (/. marianne), 

 twenty-three of the early dry form (/. meridionalis) , and 

 sixteen of the late dry form (/. agniverna = depalpura) 

 seventy-seven examples in all. 



28. Ixias nola. 

 Ixias nola, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 399. 



Mahableshwar. Twelve examples. B. M. 



The seasonal forms are all represented in our series ; a pair 

 of the wet and a pair of the dry form are equally labelled as 

 types. 



