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absent, Its black inner border somewhat narrower than in the Wet form of Pirenasm. 
Underside uniformly yellow, without markings ; the hindwing having a small 
discocellular spot, and sometimes with slightly indicated discal spots. 
Female. Upperside pale yellow. Forewing with the sub-apical fascia pale yellow. 
Hindwing with similar marginal band to the male. Underside pale yellow. Both 
wings with very slightly indicated ordinary discal markings. 
Expanse, J $ 2 to inches. 
Dry-season Brood (Plate 585, figs, lc, Id, le, If, J ?). 
Male. Upperside similar to the Wet form. Foreicing with the black inner 
border to the sub-apical orange fascia comparatively narrower, Ilindwing with the 
marginal band also somewhat narrower, or decreasingly macular. Underside. Both 
wings slightly flecked with outwardly-disposed delicate strigae. Forewing with a 
small dusky discocellular spot and an upper discal series of small dusky whitish-centred 
spots. Hindwing with a small discocellular and a discal series of similar spots, ot 
which the costal and two medial are largest and are white-centred. 
Female. Upperside yellow. Forewing with the sub-apical orange-red fascia 
narrowly black bordered from below the median vein. Ilindwing with the black 
marginal band moderately broad. Underside brighter yellow than in the female of the 
Wet form, more or less slightly flecked with delicate strigse ; a small black discocellular 
spot, and transverse discal distinct ordinary white-centred spots. 
Expanse, $ 2, ? 2 to 2^ inches. 
Habitat. —Ceylon. 
Distribution. —Taken by Mr. Wade in Hambanlotte and Haragama near Kandy 
and at Mulliatim, said to be common, and by Mr. Mackwood in the low jungle north of 
Kandy, plentifully in April. 
IXIAS ANDAMANA. 
Plate 586, figs. 1, la, lb, £ J (Wet-season Brood), Ic, Id, ? (Dry *season Brood), le, If, lg, £ $ 
(Extreme Dry-season Brood). 
Ixias Andamana , Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 590, $ 9 (Wet Form) Grose-Smith, Rhop. Exot. i. 
Ixias, pi. 2, figs. 1, 2, $ $ (1888), Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1898, p. 142. 
Ixias Lena , Swinhoe, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1890, p. 357, £ 5 (Dry Form). 
Ixias verna , Bingham (part), Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 195 (1907). 
Wet-season Brood (Plate 586, figs. 1, la, lb, $ $). 
Male. Upperside very pale yellowish-white. Forewing with the apical half 
brownish-black, the sub-apical fascia ochreous-red and slightly recurved hindward and 
outward, its black inner boarder being broad and irregular. Ilindwing with a broad 
black marginal band. Underside pale yellow. Forewing with the basal area white, 
