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IXIAS PYRENE. 
Plate 579, figs. 1, la, lb, (J 9 (Wet-season Brood), lc, Id, £ 9 (Dry-season Brood), le, If, lg, $ 9 
(Extreme Dry-season Brood). 
Papilio Pyrene , Linnaeus, Mus. Ulr. p. 24 (1764). Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 125. figs. A, B (1779). 
Aurivillius, Kongl. Svenska Vetens.-Akad. Handl. 1882, p. 54. 
Thesias Pyrene , Boisduval, Sp. Gen. p. 593 (1836). Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1867, p. 394. 
Ixias Pyrene , Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 253. Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 136. 
Watson (part), Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1897, p. 669. de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. 
Soc. 1898, p. 152, pi. AA, figs. 29, 30. Fruhstorfer, Iris, 1902, p. 205. Bingham (part), Fauna 
of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 193 (1907). 
Papilio Euippe , Drury, Ill. Exot. Ent. Ins. i. pi. 5, fig. 2, ^ (1773). 
Papilio Pltexia, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 476 (1775). 
Papilio Pirithorus, Fabricius, l.c. p. 483, 9 (1775). 
Papilio Sesia , Fabricius (part), Gen. Ins. p. 257 (1777). 
Papilio JEnippe , Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 105, tigs. C, I) (1779). 
Ixias Anexibia, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett, p. 95 (1816). 
Ixias Familiaris , Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 432. 
Ixias Tonlcmiana, Fruhstorfer, Iris, 1902, p. 297, Soc. Ent. 1902, p. 42. 
Wet-season Brood (Plate 579, figs. 1, la, lb, $ 9). 
Male. Pipper side, ground colour sulphur-yellow. Forewing with the base of 
costa and transverse anterior obliquely black and subapically crossed by a broad 
orange-red fascia traversed by black veins, outer edge of the fascia being scalloped 
and its inner edge more or less brokenly and broadly occupying the end of the cell. 
Hindiving with a broad black outer marginal band. Underside yellow. Forewing 
with the basal half white. Both wings with the yellow area sparsely flecked with 
delicate indistinctly defined grey strigse, these latter being more apparent marginally ; 
a more or less defined small blackish discocellular mark; also in the forewing is a small 
slightly-indicated blackish spot at the posterior angle. 
Female. Black apically, and traversed obliquely-outward by a broad white 
irregular-shaped sub-apical fascia ; the basal area greyish-black, decreasing more or less 
to greyish-white along middle of the posterior margin. Hindwing with a broad 
greyish-black outer marginal band, which is broader than in male. Underside similar 
to the male, but of a darker yellow colour. Forewing with an elongated broad 
irregular greyish-black oblique patch extending from below the cell to posterior 
angle. 
Expanse, $ $ 2^ to 3 inches. 
Dry -season Brood (Plate 579, figs, lc, 9? Id $.) 
Male. Upperside similar to Wet form. Hindwing with the marginal band some¬ 
what narrower. Underside similar to Wet form; the discocellular spot more distinct. 
Hindwing also with a transverse discal series of decreasing ocellate spots. 
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