from North-west India. 201 



road." The dates of capture seem to me to point to an oppo- 

 site conclusion, since T. bimhura and T. farrinus, the two 

 forms least alike, were collected in October and November 

 only by ]\Iajor Yerbury. I have already shown that T. far- 

 rinus cannot, however, be the autumnal form of T. purus^ as 

 Col. Swinhoe obtained specimens at Kurrachee in July, 

 whereas he caught T. purus in May and June. On the other 

 hand, the range of T. bimbura (which might otherwise be 

 supposed to be the late brood of T. purus) appears not to be 

 the same as that of the latter species. 



83. Ixias pygmcea. 

 Ixias pifgtruea, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 254, pi. xii. fig. 1. 



? . Campbellpore, 21st October, 1886. 



" Fairly common round Campbellpore and Khairabad in 

 October and November ; very common at Kala Dilli in the 

 Chittar Pahar in November." — /. W. Y. 



I have examined twenty-two examples recently brought 

 home by Major Yerbury in addition to five previously re- 

 ceived ; the males vary only in size, the females only in 

 occasionally having the oblique band on the apical area tinted 

 with orange ,• practically, therefore, the common Ixias of 

 Campbellpore and the neighbourhood, in spite of its near rela- 

 tionship to /. moulmeinensis of Burinah and many other fixed 

 local types, jjerfectly holds its own as a constant form and 

 therefore a species. Once begin to associate these local types 

 and the whole genus runs together, as may be seen by 

 arranging them as follows : — 1. /. Reinioardtu, of Lombock ; 

 2. I., sp. ?, of Bali ; 3. /. venilia, of Java j 4. I insi(j?iis, of 

 Formosa; 5. 7. J«/zce, of Java; 6. I. venatrix, of Moulmein- 

 7. I. kausala, of Depalpur &c. ; 8. /., sp. ?, Himalayas ; 9. 

 /., sp. ?, Bhotan ; 10. /., sp. ?, Elephant Island, W. Bombay ; 

 11. /. moulmeinensis, of Burmah ; 12. I. pygmcea, of Camp- 

 bellpore and Kangra Valley ; 13. /. pyrene, of the N.E. 

 Himalayas to China; 14. i., sp. ?, of Darjiling ; 15. /. sesia, 

 of Mussowrah, Bengal; 16. /., sp. ?, of Silhet to Bhotan; 

 17. /., sp. ?, of Daijiling to Bhotan; 18. /. dharmsaloi, of 

 Dharmsala; 19. /., sp. ?, of N.W. Provinces and " Afghan- 

 istan " (probably incorrect locality) ; 20. I.frequens, of Bar- 

 rackpore &c. ; 21. /. cingalensis, of Ceylon ; 22. I. Wattii, 

 of Bengal ; 23. /. undatus, of Borneo ; 24. /. evippe, of 

 Eastern India, from Darjiling to China; 25. /. latifasciatus, 

 of Moulmein ; 26. /. anexibia, of China ^ j 27. /., sp. ?, of 



* This species is, however, unknown to me, and may be only one of the 

 three following, badly figured by Cramer. 



