108 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Dry-season Brood (Plate 584, figs. Id, le, ^ ? ). 



Male. Upperside pale yellow. Forewing similar to extreme Wet form. Ifind- 

 wing with the marginal band narrower. Underside with similar markings. 



Female. Upperside pale yellow. Forewing similar to Wet form, the subapical 

 fascia being pale yellow. Hindwing with the marginal band narrower as it is in the 

 male. Underside similar to the extreme Wet form female, the markings being more 

 developed. 



Expanse. ^ ? 2| inches. 



Extreme Dry-season Brood (Plate 584, figs. If, Ig, ^ ? ). 



Male. Upperside pale yellow. Forewing with the orange subapical fascia 

 moderately broad, its black inner border narrower throughout. Ilindiving with the 

 black-speckled marginal band much narrower, or decreasingly macular. Underside 

 pale ochreous-yellow, pale yellow at base of forewing. Both wings with sparsely 

 outwardly-disposed slender distinct strigae. Forewing with a blackish discocellular 

 spot and a transverse upper-discal row of brown-speckled spots with white centres. 

 Hindwing with a similar white-centred costal spot, and a medial row of discal white- 

 centred spots, the second and third being the largest, also a more distinct discocellular 

 spot. 



Female. Upperside pale yellow. Forewing with the subapical fascia slightly 

 tinged with orange-yellow, its inner border more broadly black anteriorly, its medial 

 portion consisting of a speckled line, and its lower portion broadly black. Hindwing 

 with a broader marginal band than in the male. Underside both wings similar to 

 the male. 



Expanse, $ % '2h inches. 



Habitat. — Bengal. 



Distribution. — The type came from Bengal, the type of Gauduca from Calcutta, 

 and the type of Alana from Maldah ; we have it also from Barrackporc (Rothnay). 



IXIAS CINGALENSIS. 



Plate 585, figs. 1, la, lb, $ ? (Wet-season Brood), Ic, Id, le, If (Dry-season Brood). 



Mas Cingalensh, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 126, pi. 50, figs. 2, 2a, <J $ (1881) (Wet Form) Butler, 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1898, p. 138. de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1899, p. 213. 

 Ixias Pirenassa, Moore (nee Wallace), Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 125, pi. 50, figs. 1, la, (J 9 (Dry Form). 

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



Wet-season Brood (Plate 585, figs. 1, la, lb, ^ ? ). 

 Male. Upperside pale yellow. Forewing with the subapical orange fascia strongly 

 black veined, the discocellular orange spot at the upper end of cell being sometimes 



