IXIAS MARIANNE. 



Plate 589, figs. 1, la, ^ ? (Wet-season Brooil), lb, Ic, (J ? (Dry-season Brood), Id (Another Form), 



le, 9 (Another Form with pinkish tinge), If, Ig, $ ? (Extreme Dry-season Brood). 

 Papilio Marianne, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 217, figs. C, D, ? , E, <J (1780) (Wet Form). 

 Papilio Sesia, Fabricius (part), Mant. Ins. p. 22 (1787). 

 Theslias Marianne, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. i. p. 592 (1836). Doubleday, Gen. D. Lep. p. 61 



(1847). Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 216 (1869). 

 Mas Marianne, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 95 (1816). Butler, P.Z.S. 1871, p. 253. Moore, 



Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 126 (1881) ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 254. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. 



Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 36. Betham, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 324. Watson (part), 



Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1894, pp. 504, 507, pi. 2, figs. 17, 18, 19. Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. 



Hist. 1898, p. 143. Mackinnon and de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 591, 



de Rhe-Philipe, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1902, p. 492. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. 



ii. p. 196 (1907). 

 Pieris Marianne, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 120 (1819). 

 Pontia Marianne, Horsfield, Catal. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. p. 142 (1829). 

 Mas Bebryce, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 95, ^ (1816). 

 Antiwcharis Marianne, Lucas, Lep. Exot. pi. 35, fig. 1, $ (1845). 

 Mas Agnivena, Moore, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 50, $ ? (Extreme Dry). Butler, Proc. Zcol. 



Soc. 1880, p. 150. Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 141. 

 Mas Depalpura, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 153, pi. 24, figs. 6, 7, ^ 9 (Extreme Dry), 



Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 432. 

 Mas Meridionalis, Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 140, pi. 9, fig. 5, J (Dry Form) ; id. 1886, 



p. 432. 

 Mas Cumhalla, Swinhoe, I.e. p. 141, pi. 9, figs. 13, 14, ^ ? (Wet Form). 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 1, la, $ ?). 



Male. Upperside white, tlie basal areas and the inner edge of the black oblique 

 Ijand in the forewing tinged with bluish-grey. Forewing with a broad sub-apical 

 orange-red fascia (broader than in all other Indian species), the upper discocellular 

 portion only of which is always present ; the black inner oblique transverse border 

 broad. Hindwing with the black marginal band broad and continuous. Upperside 

 pale suljjhur-yellow. Both wings with a few outwardly-disposed very slightly defined 

 slender dusky strigas. Foreicing with the basal area white, the subapical area 

 medially flushed with pale orange ; a black large discocellular spot, centred with a 

 white dot, a transverse discal series of small black spots, a black patch at the posterior 

 angle, and a streak on the end of the middle median veinlet. Hindwing with a small 

 black discocellular spot with white centre, and a transverse discal series of blackish- 

 brown spots, of which the middle two, three, or four are the larger and pale-centred. 



Female. Upperside white as in the male, or very rarely the ground colour is 

 slightly orange-tinted. Forewing with the basal area tinged with darker bluish-grey 

 than in the male, the sub-apical orange fascia narrower, sometimes whitish apically, 



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