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absent, its black inner border somewhat narrower than in the Wet form of Pirenassa. 

 Underside uniformly yellow, without markings ; the hindwing having a small 

 discocellular spot, and sometimes with slightly indicated discal spots. 



Female. Upperside pale yellow. Forewing with the sub-apical fascia pale yellow. 

 Jdndu-ing with similar marginal band to the male. Underside pale yellow. Both 

 wings with very slightly indicated ordinary discal markings. 

 ^ ? 2 to 2i inches. 



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



Male. Upperside similar to the Wet form. Fore'cing with the black inner 

 border to the sub-apical orange fascia comparatively narrower. Hindwing with the 

 marginal band also somewhat narrower, or decreasingly macular. Underside. Both 

 wings slightly flecked with outwardly-disposed delicate strigse. Forewing with a 

 small dusky discocellular spot and an upper discal series of small dusky whitish-centred 

 spots. Hindwing with a small discocellular and a discal series of similar spots, of 

 which the costal and two medial are largest and are white-centred. 



Female. Upperside yellow. Forewing with the sub-apical orauge-red fascia 

 narrowly black bordered from below the median vein. Hindwing with the blai-k 

 marginal band moderately broad. Underside brighter yellow than in the female of the 

 Wet form, more or less slightly flecked with delicate strigse ; a small black discocellular 

 •spot, and transverse discal distinct ordinary white-centred spots. 



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



Habitat. — Ceylon. 



Distribution. — Taken by Mr. Wade in Hambanlotte and Haragama near Kandy 

 and at Mulliatim, said to be common, and by Mr. Mackwood in the low jungle north of 

 Kandy, plentifully in April. 



IXIAS ANDAMANA. 



Plate 586, figs. 1, la, lb, ^ 9 (Wet-season Brood), Ic, Id, <J $ (Dry-season Brood), le, If, Ig, $ ? 



(Extreme Dry-season Brood). 

 Ixias Andamana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 590, ^ ? (Wet Form) Grose-Smith, Ehop, Exot. i. 



Ixias, pi. 2, figs. 1, 2, (J 9 (1888), Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1898, p. 142. 

 Ixias Lena, Swinhoe, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1890, p. 357, (J ? (Dry Form). 

 Ixlas verna, Bingham (part), Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 195 (1907). 



Wet-season Brood (Plate 586, figs. 1, la, lb, ^ ?). 



Male. Upperside very pale yellowish-white. Forewing with the apical half 



brownish-black, the sub-apical fascia ochreous-red and slightly recurved hind ward and 



outward, its black inner boarder being broad and irregular. Hindwing with a broad 



black marginal band. Underside pale yellow. Forewing with the basal area white, 



