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Genus MELANITIS Fabricias. 



18. M. leda bouruana snbsp. nov. 



The si)ecimens of this species which lie before me are remarkable ou accouut 

 of the very red cast of the upper surface of the wings in the male, and the wide 

 expanse of the yellow apical tract in the female sex. The outer margin of the 

 primaries in the case of the male is also peculiar on account of the entire obsoles- 

 cence of the subapical tooth-like projection, which is only discernible in one 

 specimen as a very slight outward bend in the otherwise straight margin. Mr. 

 Uoherty tells me in his letters that this form extends to Timor and Flores. He 

 is inclined to think it a distinct species. It is at all events fairly entitled to a 

 snbspecific name, and the brief notes I have given will easily, I think, enable 

 students to discriminate it. Both the ?nales and the females are highly fragrant, 

 when first taken. 



19. M. constantia (Cramer), Pap. Ex. II. t. 133. f. A. B (1779). 



The figure given by Cramer is that of a female specimen. The males exist 

 in numerous varietal forms, characterized by the greater or less prominence of the 

 broad yellow subapical band, which in occasional specimens is almost obliterated. 

 The subajiical ocelli are also very variable in size, and tend to become obsolete. In 

 one XiiXg^t female in the collection they have been replaced by small white points on 

 the unusually broad yellow subapical band. This species, like the preceding, is very 

 fragrant. 



2i). M. amabilis (Boisduval), Voyage cle U Astrolabe, Lep. p. 140. t. 2. 



f 1. 2 (1832). 



There is a good set of this species. The figure given by Boisduval is that 

 of a, female, in which the subapical band is white. It is yellow in the case of 

 the males. Boisduval's figure is also too small, apparently representing a dwarfed 

 specimen. The examples in the collection before me are likewise redder upon 

 the upper surface than represented in the plate in the Voyage de U Astrolabe. 



21. M. ribbei Staudinger, Iris I. p. 192. f. 1. 2 (1887). 



There are a few very large males of this species, which is probably merely 

 a variety of M. relutina Feldor, cliaracterized by its larger size, and the darker 

 upper surface of the wings, which in the examples before me are black. 



Genus MYCJALESIS Hubner. 



22. M. perseus (Fabricias), Sgst. Ent. p. 488 (1775). 



Only a single specimen of this widely distributed species was contained in 

 the collection. 



23. M. medus (Fabricius), Syst. Ent. p. 488 (1775). 

 There are four specimens of this species in the collection. 



