LEPIDOPTERA INDIO A. 
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Habitat. —Western Himalayas. 
Distribution. —The type came from Kansala; we have it from the Punjaub 
(Home) and from Umbala (Lang). 
IXIAS DHARMSALJ1. 
Plate 582, figs. 1, la, A 9 (Wet-season Brood), lb, 1c, A 9 (Intermediate Form), Id, le, A ? 
(Dry-season Brood), If, Ig, A 9 (Extreme Dry-season Form). 
Lugs Dharmsalse, Butler, Proc. Zool. Hoc. 1880, p. 150, pi. 15, figs. 8, 9, A 9 (Dry Form), Swinhoe, 
P.Z.S. 1885, p. 143. 
Ixias Dharmsalse, Butler (part), Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1898, p. 139. 
Ixias Colaha, Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 142, pi. 9, fig. 6, A (Wet Form). 
Ixias Jhoda, Swinhoe, l.c. p. 149, pi. 9, figs. 3, 4, A ? (Extreme Dry Form). 
Ixias p* rene, Bingham (part), Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 193 (1907). 
Wet-season Brood (Plate 582, figs. I, la, 3, ? = Colaha). 
Male. Larger than Kansala. Upperside pale yellow. Forewing with the 
orange fascia broader than in the Wet form of Satadra , and its black inner border 
conspicuously narrower throughout. Hindwing with the marginal band also somewhat 
narrower. Underside pale yellow. Both wings unmarked, or with slight traces of a 
small dusky discocellular spot. 
Female. Upperside white, or very faintly yellow-tinted. Forewing with the 
apical half black, the base densely grey-scaled ; sub-apical fascia white, its transverse 
black spots somewhat large. ITindwing with the marginal band broad. Underside 
pale yellow, the outer strigse more visible. Forewing with the discocellular dusky- 
black mark prominent and large, the transverse diseal spots and patch at the posterior 
angle distinct. Hindwing with a small discocellular spot, and two very indistinct 
ordinary medial-discal and one costal speckled spot. 
Expanse, A 2 to 2|, ? 2^ to 2| inches. 
Intermediate Form (Plate 582, figs, lb, lc, $ ?). 
Male. Upperside. Forewing similar to the Wet form, except that the black 
inner border to the orange fascia is somewhat narrower. Hindwing with the marginal 
band also somewhat narrower. Underside similar to the Wet form, except that there 
are a few outwardly disposed slight dusky strigae, the discocellular spot present, the 
forewing showing faint traces of small upper-discal spots, and the hindwing with two 
dusky medial-diseal spots, and a costal spot. 
Female. Upperside very faintly tinted with pale yellow. Forewing similar to 
the Wet form, the black inner border to the sub-apical fascia slightly narrower. 
