104 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Habitat. — AVesteru Ilimalayari. 



Distribution. — The type came from Kansala ; we have it from the Punjaul) 

 (Home) and from Umbala (Lang). 



IXIAS DHARMSAL^. 



Plate 582, figs. 1, la, ^ ? (Wet-season Brood), lb, lo, ^ $ (Intermediate Form), Id, le, ^ 9 



(Dry-season Brood), If, Ig, <J ? (Extreme Dry-season Form). 

 Ixias Dhnnnsalx, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, p. 150, pi. 15, figs. 8, 9, <J ? (Dry Form), Swinhoe, 



P.Z.S. 1885, p. 143. 

 Ixias Bharmsalse, Butler (part), Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1898, p. 139. 

 Ixias Colaba, Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 142, pi. 9, fig. 6, $ (Wet Form). 

 Ixias Jhoda, Swinhoe, I.e. p. 149, pi. 9, figs. 3, 4, (J ? (Extreme Dry Form). 

 Ixias Pyrene, Bingham (part). Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 193 (1907). 



Wet-season Brood (Ph^te 582, figs. 1, la, .3, ? = Colaba). 



Male. Larger than Kansala. Upperside pale yellow. Foreicing with the 

 orange fascia broader than in the Wet form of Satadra, and its blar-k inner border 

 (;ouspicuously narrower throughout. Hindioing with the marginal band also somewhat 

 narrower. Underside pale yellow. Both wings unmarked, or with slight traces of a 

 small dusky discocellular spot. 



Female. Upperside white, or very faintly yellow-tinted. Forcioimj with the 

 apical half black, the base densely grey-scaled ; sub-apical fascia white, its transverse 

 l)la<'k spots somewhat large. Ilindwing with the marginal band broad. Underside 

 pale yellow, the outer strigge more visible. Forewing with the discocellular dusky- 

 l)lac.k mark prominent and large, the transverse discal spots and patch at the posterior 

 angle distinct. Ilindwing with a small discocellular spot, and two very indistinct 

 ordinary medial-discal and one costal speckled spot. 



Expanse, ^ 2 to 2i, ? 2 J to 2^ inches. 



Intermediate Form (Plate 582, figs, lb, Ic, $ ?). 



Male. Upperside. Forewing similar to the Wet form, except that the black 

 inner border to the orange fascia is somewhat narrower. Ilindining with the marginal 

 l-.aud also somewhat narrower. Underside similar to the Wet form, except that there 

 arc a few outwardly disposed slight dusky strigse, the discocellular spot present, the 

 foreiriag showing faint traces of small upper-diseal spots, and the hindunng with two 

 dusky medial-discal spots, and a costal spot. 



Female. Upperside very faintly tinted with pale yellow. Forewing similar to 

 the Wet form, the black inner border to the sub- apical fascia slightly narrower. 



