42 RHOPALOCERA MALAYANA. 



evening at twilight, and also at early dawn.* Mr. Trimen also records the crepuscular hahits of 

 this species (or a local form of it) at Mauritius, and states that there it could always be found " in 

 the dark alleys between the rows of sugar-canes." f In Continental India, at Saugor^ Capt. 

 de la Chaumette describes this and an allied species as flying "at sunset under the Neem trees, 

 resting for a long time motionless on the ground, and will not move until you almost tread upon 

 them, when they will fly away in great haste and return to the same spot, chiefly some favourite 

 stone." I In North-Western India, according to Capt. Lang, these same species were found 

 "always flitting al)out under the shade of trees or lurking in long grass." § In Ceylon 

 Mr. Hutchison also describes its flight as taking place at dusk of evening and at dawn. || 



The larva (which I have flgured at p. 37), was reared by Capt. Lang on " SacclKtniin ravcnmc." 



2. Melanitis ismene. (Tab. IV., tigs. 9, 11 & 12.) 



I'lipilio hiiit'iir, Cramer, Pap. Ex. i. t. 26, A, B (1775). 



Mchiiiitif: lUinksia, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 222, n. 462 (1857). 

 rijUi, Leda, Butl. (part), Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 3, vol. xix. p. 52 (1867). 

 Melanitis Leda, var. Inwene, Butl., Cat. Satyr, p. 2 (1868). 



Melanitis Ismene, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 824; Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 14, pi. 10, f. 2,<i, h (1881); Wood- 

 Mason & de Niceville, Jouni. Asiat. Soc. Beug. vol. l. p. 244, ii. 8 (1881). 



Male and female. Wings above either pale or dark t'uliginoiis-brown. Anterior wings with the 

 apical area darker, and possessing a subapical blackish spot, situated beyond end of cell, containing two 

 whitish spots (one on each side of first median nerviile), and bordered more or less distinctly above and 

 inwardly with I'ulvous-red. Posterior wings with one, two, and sometimes three or four, very small 

 sul)nia.rginal white spots, with black margins ; the most distinct of these spots is situated between the 

 second and third median nervules, and the whole are sometimes practically obsolete as in the var. figured 

 (lig. 11). Wrings beneath variable in hue and markings, as follows : — 



V<n\ ii,fi<j. 9 S . Dull greyish, with a lilaceous tinge, more or less irregularly spotted with fuscous, 

 exhibiting on disk the broken remains of three dark fascife ; anterior wings with a distinct white-centred 

 spot between first and second median nervules, above which and first median nervule is a much more 

 obsolete and indistinct spot ; there are also indications of two apical spots situated on each side of upper 

 disco-cellular nervule. Posterior wings with a more or less obsolete series of six submarginal ocellated spots, 

 of which the first and upper, situate between the subcostal nervules, and the fifth, placed between second 

 and third median nervules, are the largest and most distinct, being black with white centres and yellowish 

 margins. This is the typical form of Isnicne as figured by Cramer. 



Vm-. h, Ji(j. 12 <? . Wings much darker and more lilaceous, the fuscous markings absent ; anterior 

 wings with four distinct brownish fascial, three in and one just beyond end of cell, the first and second of 

 which are continued on posterior wings, where they are curved, but do not reach abdominal margin. Both 

 wings spotted as in r<ir. <i. 



Var. c./iij. 11 $ . Wings pale ochraceous, the fasciiB, as seen in (•((/•. //, much fainter; anterior wings 

 with the apical area paler and spots absent ; posterior wings with the spots very faint or obsolete. 



Body and legs more or less concolorous with wings. 



Female. Larger, with the general colour both above and beneath brighter, and the subapical 

 markings to the anterior wings above much more distinct and vivid. 



Exp. wings, J 70 to 7'2 millim. ; ? 78 to 82 millim. 



* M. C. Piepei-s, Tijd. Ent. xix. pp. xviii. to xxiv.. and Eutjlish translation by Kirljy, ' Eutomologist,' x. p. 2(57; Snellen, 

 Tijd. Ent. xix. p. 145. 



f Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 3, vol. v. p. 336. [ Ent. JIo. Mag. vol. ii. p. 37. 



§ Ent. Mo. Mag. vol. i. p. 182. || Moore's Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 15. 



