54 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
placed on a dusky stripe, and the ventral abdominal surface is 
indistinctly striped. 
Kiinow says a striking point about this pupa is the extreme 
prominence of the feet and feelers. I do not, however, find any 
striking difference from that of A. paphia in either the legs or 
antenne. 
Expranation oF Prate:—Fig. 1. Egg, drawn 4/10/1907. Fig. 2. Seventh 
segment of larva directly after emergence, drawn 20/2/1908. Fig. 3. Larva, first- 
stage, 27 days old, drawn 18/3/1908. Fig. 4. Larva, 21 days after 1st moult, 65 
days old, drawn 24/4/1908. Fig. 5. Larva, after 2nd moult, 86 days old, drawn 
15/5/1908. Fig. 6. Larva, after 3rd moult, 94 days old, drawn 23/5/1908. Fig. 7. 
Larva, after 4th moult, 111 days old, drawn 9/6/1908. Fig. 8. Larva, after 5th 
moult, fully grown, 124 days old, drawn 22/6/1908. Fig. 9. Larva, after 5th moult, 
fully-grown, seventh segment, drawn 23/6/1908. - Fig. 10. Pupa, five days old, light- 
form, drawn 29/6/1908. Fig. 11. Pupa, eight days old, dark form, drawn 9/7/1908. 
Fig. 12. Imago, g, upper and under side. 
THE ATHALIA GROUP OF THE GENUS MELITAA. 
By George WHEELER, M.A., F.E.S. 
(Continued from p. 32.) 
Tau next two forms do not so clearly belong to this group, 
but still they are remarkable for presenting a greater display of 
the fulvous ground colour, the one on the fore, the other on the 
hind wing, though in the former case the hind wing seems to be- 
long rather to the other or navarina-group, as, indeed, is the 
case with hertha, and even with corythalia itself. The first of the 
two is :— : 
ab. hisopa, Sélys-Longchamps, ‘‘ Enumération des Insectes 
Lépidopteres de la Belgique,” p. 19 (published in the ‘ Mémoires 
de la Societé Scientifique de Liege, 1845). It is described as 
follows :—‘‘ Dessus* des ailes brun. Les supérieures avec trois 
bandes de taches fauves trés larges, les inférieures avec une 
bande seule analogue antéterminale. Dessous des inférieures 
avec quatre taches arrondies noires a la base qui est fauve. Cette 
couleur terminée par du noir. Le reste d’un jaune clair, avec 
les nervures et une raie antéterminale noires et une série trans- 
verse de cing taches fauves non cerclées de noir.”’ 
This series of five transverse fulvous spots evidently repre- 
sents the outer band. I know no illustration of this aberration, ~ 
but the description is sufficiently clear. 
The name is spelt nisopa in the ‘ Annales de la Société Ento- 
mologique Belge,’ i. p. 19 (1857), in the list of Belgian forms of 
Lepidoptera. 
* Up.s. brown. F. w. with three very broad bands of fulvous spots, 
h. w. with only one corresponding antemarginal band. Un. s.h. w. with 
four rounded black spots at the base, which is fulvous edged with black. The 
rest of the wing is light yellow, with the nervures and one antemarginal line 
black, and a transverse series of five fulvous spots, without any black edging. 
