1885.] OF BOMBAY AND THE DECCAN. 141 



black central knob squarer and cleaner cut, and the black band on 

 hind wings narrower and not continued to the anal angle, but fining 

 down and stopping before the first medial nervule, being produced 

 to the angle in the shape of a bluish-grey shade which runs into the 

 black border at the centre, giving the border an appearance of 

 uniformity in depth throughout. Below, the coloration is very 

 much brighter, more ochreous and altogether different ; the apical 

 orange patch is almost as large and as brilliant as it is above, and 

 the discal series of spots on the hind wing are white, large, bordered 

 with chocolate-brown, very much as in female /. marianne but 

 larger. 



$ . Differs from /. marianne of that sex above in having the 

 inner border of the apical patch as in I. agnivena (Moore) and 

 I. dapalpura (Butler), the broad streak from the costa terminating 

 at the end of the cell. The border of the hind wings is narrow, 

 exactly as in the male ; and on the underside the markings are as in 

 the male but larger, and the general coloration is very bright, 

 brighter even than in /. agnivena, the fore wings being suffused 

 with bright orange, and the hind wings with bright chrome-yellow. 



Expanse of wings, S 2 , '^^a inches. 



This species is no doubt the southern form of/, marianne (Cr Am.), 

 but Cramer's plate is so badly coloured, the difficulty is in deter- 

 mining what Cramer's type of /. marianne really is. I have 

 brought home many hundreds of examples of these white Ixias, 

 and have gone through them all, and through the B. M. collection, 

 and through Mr. Moore's sjdendid collection ; and with Mr. Butler's 

 assistance have come to the conclusion that Cramer's type repre- 

 sents the N.W. Indian form, of which I have several specimens 

 from Mirzapore, and other places in N.W. India. 



119. Ixias AGNIVENA. 



Ixias agnivena, Moore, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xx. 

 p, 50 (1877). 



Poona, November to April. 



120. Ixias cumbali-a, n. sp. (Plate IX. figs. 13 c? , 14 $ .) 



Bombay, July and August. 

 Allied to /. marianne (Cramer). 



cJ . Above like a large /. meridionalis. Below, fore wings, above 

 the first median nervule and the outer surface of the hind wings, 

 bright sulphur-yellow. Fore wings with the entire space below the 

 cell pure white, apical orange patch hardly visible through the 

 wing, the discal spots deep black instead of brown ; the entire 

 surface of both wings with hardly any of the usual striations. Hind 

 wings with the usual discal spots large, deep chocolate-brown, with a 

 slight indication of white visible in one or two specimens, but 

 generally of a bright chocolate-brown without any white at all. 



5 . Above with a great deal of black, the inner border of the 



