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IXIAS MOULMEINENSIS. 
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Plate 588, fig. 1, d , le, 9 (Wet-season Brood), lb, d , lc, 9 (Dry-season Brood), la, Id, d d 
(Extreme Dry-season Brood, two forms). 
Ixias Moulmeinensis , Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 837, $ 9 (Fry Form). Watson, Journ. Bo. 
Nat. Hist. Soc. 1894, p. 505, pi. 2, fig. 25 (Wet Form d ), %• 26 (Dry Form $); id. 1897, 
p. 669. Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1886, p. 188; id. 1898, p. 139. 
Ixias Meipona , Grose-Smith, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1887, p. 296 ; id. Rhop. Exot. i. ix. pi. 2, 
figs. 4, 5, d (1888) (Wet Form). 
Ixias Pyrene, Bingham (part), Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 193 (1907). 
Wet -season Brood (Figs. 1, le, $ $). 
Male. Upperside clear pale yellow. Forewing with the sub-apical orange-red 
fascia somewhat narrower than in the Wet form of Latifasciatus , its black inner border 
being also narrower. Hindwing with the marginal band also much narrower. Under¬ 
side clear pale yellow; discocellular spot small; the dusky patch at posterior angle of 
the Forewing small and slightly defined. 
Female. Very similar to the male. Forewing with the orange-red fascia smaller, 
its black borders broader, its inner border contracted in the middle, much thickened 
upwards and continued in a broad band along the costa to the base. Hindwing with 
the black outer border narrower and diffused. Underside similar to the male. 
Expanse, $ 2, $ 2| inches. 
Dry-season Brood (Figs, lb, lc, $ ?). 
Male. Upperside clear pale yellow. Forewing with the black inner border of 
the orange-red sub-apical fascia slightly narrower than in the Wet form. Hindwing 
with the marginal band narrower. Underside oehreous-yellow. Both wings with 
delicate slender strigse, transverse cliscal spots with whitish centres. Forewing with a 
large dusky discocellular spot. Hindwing with a small similar spot. 
Female. Upperside clear pale yellow. Forewing with a moderately broad 
orange-red sub-apical fascia, its black inner border being slender medially and broad 
anteriorly, the basal costal area broadly blackish-grey. Hindwing with the black 
marginal baud broader than in the male. Underside similar to the male, the 
transverse discal spots with whitish centres, the discocellular spot more prominent. 
Forewing also with a dusky patch at the posterior angle. 
Expanse, $ 2 to 2^, ¥ if to 2| inches. 
Extreme Dry-season Brood (Figs, la, Id, $ $). 
Male. Upperside pale yellow. Forewing with the orange-red fascia larger and 
the black borders narrower than in the ordinary Dry form. Hindwing with the 
marginal band narrower, sometimes consisting of small spots or entirely unmarked. 
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