COLIIN^. Ill 



ordinary Dry-season form and grey in colour. Hlndichui witli the marginal band 

 narrow and similar to the band of the male. Underside similar to the male, the 

 markings being more developed. 



Expanse, ^ ? 2j to 2g inches. 



Habitat. — Andaman Islands. 



IXIAS LATIFASCIATUS. 



Plate 587, figs. 1, $ (Wet-season Brood), la, lb, Ic, $ $ (Extreme Wet-season Brood), Id, le. If, 



Igi <J 9 (Dry-season Brood). 

 Mas Latijasciatug, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 252, pi. 19, i 3 9 . Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. 



Hist. 1898, p. 137. 

 Ixias Pallida, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 837. 



Thestias Pyrene, Doubleday (nee Linn.), Gen. D. Lep. i. pi. 8, fig. 1 <J (1836). 

 Ixias Pyrene, Bingham (part). Fauna o£ Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 195 (1907). 



Wet- season Brood (Plate 587, fig. 1, S)- 



Male. Upperside pale sulphur-yellow. Forewing with the orange fascia 

 moderately broad, having two discocellular portions within end of cell, its black inner 

 border being uniformly broad throughout its length. Hindwlng with the black 

 marginal band very broad and of equal width. Underside pale yellow. Posterior 

 margin of forewing white. Both wings with very slightly apparent outwardly- 

 disposed delicate strigse and small discocellular spot. Forewing with a .slight dusky 

 patch at the posterior angle. 



Expanse, $ 2\ inches. 



Extreme Wet-season Brood (Plate 587, figs, la, lb, Ic, $ $). 



Male. Upperside paler yellow than the ordinary Wet-season form. Forewing 

 similar ; sometimes the lower divided portion at the end of the cell in the subapical 

 fascia is absent. Hindiving with a slightly broader marginal band. Underside of a 

 deeper yellow. Both wings flecked with darker strigse, which are more numerous 

 and somewhat confluent on the exterior portions, those on the disc form an apparent 

 discal series of spots ; the discocellular spot on the forewing much larger and the 

 patch at posterior angle more distinct than in the Wet-season male. 



Female. Upperside pale yellow. Foretving with the ordinary -shaped sub-apical 

 fascia pale orange, its black inner border broader than in the male, the basal and costal 

 area being also broadly black. Ilindwing with the black marginal band broader than 

 in the male. Underside somewhat deeper yellow, the strigse more distinct, the 

 discocellular spot larger, that on the forewing with white pupil, and the posterior patch 

 at the angle larger ; the transverse discal spots somewhat more apparent. 



Expanse, ^ $ 2^ to 2| inches. 



