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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, lc, J (Dry-season Brood), Id, le, ? 
(Extreme Dry-season Brood). 
Ixicis Nola , Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 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, J £). 
Male. Upperside white. Forewing 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. Mindwing 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 wPh grey strigse, the sub-apical area being flushed with very pale orange j 
discocellular black spot large and with a minute white centred dot; ordinary blackish 
upper discal spots, the anterior one slightly whitish centred. Mindwing slightly 
flecked with grey strigrn, the discocellular spot small, brown, with white centred 
dot; discal spots more or less ill-defined, brownish, the centres whitish. 
Female. Upperside white. Fore wing 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, $ £ 2 inches. 
Dry-season Brood (Figs, lb, lc, J £). 
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 
