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another series of specimens a gradation can he followed from excessively minute dots, 

 surrounded by a scarcely visible black line, into perfectly symmetrical and large ocelli." 



1. Melanitis leda. (Tab. lY., tig. 10.) 



Fapiliii Lf<l>i, J-iiiii:i'us, Syst. Niit. i. 2, p. 77:J. ii. 151 (1707) ; Dniry. Ex. Ins. i. t. 15, f. 5, G (1773) ; Cram. 



Pap. Ex. iii. t. 19G, C, D. (178()|. 

 Oreax {iitdriiinnita) I.cilti, Hiibiicr, Saumil. exot. Schuictt. (1806-1816). 

 Mi-limitis Leilii, Fabr., Illigei-'s Mag. vi. p. 282 (18071 ; Moore (part), Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 222, n. 101 



(1857); r>utl.. Cat. Satyr, p. 1, ii. 1 (1808) ; Cat. Fabr. Lep. p. !), n. 1 (part), (180!)) ; Trans. Linn. 



Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 537, u. 1 (1877); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 15, pi. 10, f. 1 a, l> (1881). 

 Ilirio Leda, Hiibn., Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 50, u. 538 (1816), 

 Satyni-i Leda, Goclart, Enc. Metli. ix. p. 478, n. 4 (1823). 

 Cijlh leda, Westw., Gen. Dmru. Lep. p. 301, n. 1 (1851) ; liutl., Ann. k Mag. Nat. Hist. scr. 3, vol. xix. p. 52 



var.s. 1, 2, 3, 3/., 4, 5 (1807); Snellen, Tijd. Ent. xix. p. 145, n. 9 (18701; ibid. xx. p. 00 (1877); 



ibid. xxi. p. 0, n. 17 (1878). 



Male ami female. Wiii,L;s above fuliginous-browu. Anterior wings with a sul)apical blackish spot 

 situated beyond end of cell, containing two whitish spots (one ou each aide of first median ner\Tile), and 

 bordered inwardly more or less distinctly with fulvous. Posterior wings with one, two, three, or even 

 four submarginal black spots, with white centres and narrow pale margins, the largest of which is situated 

 between second and third median nervules. Underside of wings varying from pale variegated lilaceous (as 

 in specimen figured) to pale variegated ochraceous, covered with numerous darker strigse. Anterior wings 

 with three transverse dark fascia^ the first and most indistinct crossing cell about one-third from base, 

 the other passing through about centre of cell and the third a little beyond cell, and not quite reaching 

 inner margin (these fasciae are very inconstant, two being seen distinctly on specimen figured, but on some 

 others they are barely distinguishable), and three, four, or five subapical black ocellated spots, with white 

 centres and yellowish margins, situated between the nervules, of which the largest is placed between 

 the first and second median nervules ; in dark lilaceous specimens the space between the third median 

 nervule and submedian nervm-e is more or less ochraceous. Posterior wings with a more or less distinct 

 dark fascia, continuous with the centre one of anterior wings and not reaching abdominal margin, and with 

 six submarginal ocellated spots, varying in size in different specimens, but the largest of which are the 

 first and upper one, situated between, and sometimes extending lieyond, the subcostal nervules, and the 

 fifth, which is placed between the second and third median nervules ; the last one is also sometimes duplex, 

 as in the specimen figured. Body and legs more or less concolorous with wings. 



In female specimens the spots on the upper surface of the wings are usually larger and brighter. 



Exp. wings, <? 60 to 72 millim. ; 5 77 to 84 millim. 



Hab.— Continental India ; Bombay (coll. Dist.) ; Central Provinces ; Khasia Hills (coll. Moore).— 

 Ceylon (coll. Moore, & Brit. Mus.)— Andaman Islands (Calcutta Mus.* and coll. Moore).— Burma ; iFoulmeiu 

 (Brit. Mus.)— Malay Peninsula ; Penaug ; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.) ; Malacca (Brit. Mus.)— Sumatra 

 (Snellen).— Java (coll. Moore and Brit. Mus.) ; Batavia (Snellen).— Borneo (coll. Godm. & Salv.)— Bali (coll. 

 Moore).— Celebes (Snellen and Brit. Mus.)— Siam ; Chentaboon (coll. Godm. & Salv.)— Formosa.— North 

 China (coll. Moore). 



This species varies in the shape of the anterior wings, sometimes having the apex distinctly 

 falcate, as in the specimen figured, or indistinctly and scarcely recognisably so, as in a Bombay 

 specimen in my own collection. As observed in Celebes it is crepuscular in habit, flying in the 



=■■■ ■\Vood-.Musoii, .Journ. Asiat. tioc. Beug. vol. L. p. "244 (1881). 

 June 30, 1882. m 



