Habitat. — Throughout the plains of India and Ceylon, except in the desert 

 portions. 



Distribution. — Eastern Provinces, Plains, also in forest lands ; fond of damp 

 spots (Hutchinson, Ceylon). Taken by us (Meridionalis) at Poona in October and 

 November ; in Bombay, December ; Belgaum, September and October ; Ahmednuggur, 

 October and November ; in Bombay (Cumballa), July and August ; Hambantotte and 

 Mulliatum, Ceylon, common (Wade). Watson reports its capture in Mysore, Betham 

 in the Central Provinces, Mackinnon in Mussoorie, and de Rhe'-Philipe at Lucknow, 

 and we have it from Manipur, Deesa and Karachi. 



IXIAS NOLA. 



Plate 590, figs. 1, la, ^ ? (Wet-season Brood), lb, Ic, (J ? (Dry-season Brood), Id, le, ^ ? 



(Extreme Dry-season Brood). 

 Ixias Nola, Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. See. 1889, p. 399. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1894, p. 504. 



Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1898, p. 143. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 197 



(1907). de Rhe-Philipe, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1908, p. 885. 



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



Male. Upperside white. Forewimj with the sub-apical orange fascia much 

 narrower throughout than in the Wet form of Marianne, being also curved uniformly 

 outward, and without any trace of the ordinary red upper portion at end of the cell, 

 its black inner border being of a similar broad width. Hindwing with a narrower, 

 decreasing, posteriorly macular band, which terminates generally at the middle median 

 veinlet. Underside pale yellow. Forewing with the basal area white ; apex slightly 

 flecked wii-h grey strigse, the sub-apical area being flushed with very pale orange ; 

 discocellular black spot large and with a minute white centred dot ; ordinary blackish 

 upper discal spots, the anterior one slightly whitish centred. Hindwing slightly 

 flecked with grey strigse, the discocellular spot small, brown, with white centred 

 dot ; discal spots more or less ill-defined, brownish, the centres whitish. 



Female. Upperside white. Forewing of similar pattern to same sex in the Dry 

 form of Marianne, the sub-apical orange fascia much narrower, with three traversing 

 black spots only, its black anterior portion as in the Dry form of Marianne, broad and 

 acutely angled at the lower end, the medial portion without any traces of dark scales. 

 Hindwing with the marginal band similar to the male, but narrower and generally 

 extending only halfway down the wing. Underside similar to the male. 



Expanse, ,? i 2 inches. 



Dry-season Brood (Figs, lb, Ic, $ $). 

 Male. Upperside white. Forewing with the black inner border of the sub-apical 

 orange fascia narrower throughout than in the Wet form, the medial portion being 



