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Show 1885.] OF BOMBAY AND THE DECCAN. 141 black central knob squarer and cleaner cut, and the black band on hind wings narrower and not continued to the anal angle, but fining down and stopping before the first medial nervule, being produced to the angle in the shape of a bluish-grey shade which runs into the black border at the centre, giving the border an appearance of uniformity in depth throughout. Below, the coloration is very much brighter, more ochreous and altogether different; the apical orange patch is almost as large and as brilliant as it is above, and the discal series of spots on the hind wing are white, large, bordered with chocolate-brown, very much as in female /. marianne but larger. 5 . Differs from I. marianne of that sex above in having the inner border of the apical patch as in I. agnivena (Moore) and I. dapalpura (Butler), the broad streak from the costa terminating at the end of the cell. The border of the hind wings is narrow, exactly as in the male ; and on the underside the markings are as in the male but larger, and the general coloration is very bright, brighter even than in I. agnivena, the fore wings being suffused with bright orange, and the hind wings with bright chrome-yellow. Expanse of wings, 6" 2 > 2y0 inches. This species is no doubt the southern form of I. marianne (Cram.), but Cramer's plate is so badly coloured, the difficulty i3 in determining what Cramer's type of I. marianne really is. I have brought home many hundreds of examples of these white Ixias, and have gone through them all, and through the B. M . collection, and through Mr. Moore's splendid collection ; and with Mr. Butler's assistance have come to the conclusion that Cramer's type represents the N.W. Indian form, of which I have several specimens from Mirzapore, and other places in N.W. India. 119. IXIAS AGNIVENA. Ixias agnivena, Moore, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xx. p? 50 (1877). Poona, November to April. 120. IXIAS CUMBALLA, n. sp. (Plate IX. figs. 13 6", 14 $ Bombay, July and August. Allied to I. marianne (Cramer). cf . Above like a large I. meridionalis. Below, fore wings, above the first median nervule and the outer surface of the hind wings, bright sulphur-yellow. Fore wings with the entire space below the cell pure white, apical orange patch hardly visible through the wing, the discal spots deep black instead of brown ; the entire surface of both wings with hardly any of the usual striations. Hind wings with the usual discal spots large, deep chocolate-brown, with a slight indication of white visible in one or two specimens, but generally of a bright chocolate-brown without any white at all. 2 . Above with a great deal of black, the inner border of the |