THE ATHALIA GROUP OF THE GENUS MELIT@MA. 5 
originally described specimens came. These are of course 
absolutely authentic, and I exhibited them the day after their 
arrival (i.e. Nov. 18th) at the meeting of the Ent. Soc. of London, 
and also on the 26th at the South London Meeting. They may 
be most readily described as the converse of britomartis, having 
the upper side of dictynna, but the under side, as Hormuzaki says, 
generally nearest to parthenie, but often to athalia and sometimes 
even to deione, ‘‘ but never,’ as he remarks, ‘‘like aurelia,” and, 
one may add, still less like dictynna. Hormuzaki’s account is too 
long for transcription, and also unfortunately treats the dark 
part as the ground-colour (excusably enough in the Bukowina 
Meliteas of this group), so that the simplest plan would seem to 
be to describe it from his specimens in terms of the general 
description of the group (vol. xli., pp. 200, 201, 221), noting 
those respects in which he mentions this form as being variable. 
Up. s. f. w.: Lunules replaced by small quadrangular or irregularly 
triangular spots in the male, occasionally regularly triangular in the 
female, the lowest always absent and the third always somewhat the 
largest. Subterminal and elbowed lines thick, leaving small, more 
or less quadrangular spots of the ground colour; inner subterminal 
almost as much bent as in athalia, marginal blotch very large but 
sometimes containing a patch of the ground colour, especially in the 
female. Stigma oval, containing traces of the ground colour, or only 
thickly outlined; basal lines thick, or, in the male, included in the 
basal suffusion which almost reaches the marginal blotch. 
Up.s. h. w.: Outer line coalescing with border, so as to form a broad 
marginal band, rarely showing traces of a row of spots of the ground 
colour in the male, oftener in the female, where they are sometimes 
fairly distinct, round, triangular, or even lunular, whitish in some 
females and in one male, especially near the costa; inner line included 
in the large basal suffusion, which in some males extends over the 
whole wing, as in dictynna ab. seminigra (Musch.), though oceasion- 
ally it only reaches to the extra line, giving another line of spots of 
the ground colour, or sometimes of a ‘lighter shade, some of which 
are in rare cases lengthened out towards the base. 
Un. s. f. w.: Inner line of border bearing (in both my specimens) 
small dark triangles as in dezone ; lunules light, especially towards the 
costa, and two or three light spots between the subterminal lines, the 
outer of which is distinct, the inner traceable, throughout; elbowed 
line represented by a row of spots, most conspicuous, as is the inner 
subterminal, near the costa; marginal blotch very small, the other 
dark markings clear but fine. 
Un. s. h. w.: Inner edge of border slightly angulated, both parts 
of terminal band nearly (or quite) unicolorous, which is also the case 
in my specimens with the central band; outer band interrupted near 
costa, the lunules almost reaching the central band, and being utterly 
destitute of the black points of dictynna and britomartis ; central band 
very broad, the third and fourth spots not projecting far beyond the 
others; inner band rather narrow, with small light spot, basal band 
also narrow, with very small central spot and the fifth spot absent. 
