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it is found in woods and bushy places, in Italy and Central 

 and South-eastern Europe, as well as in some parts of Asia. 



For obvious reasons, I have made no reference to the re- 

 ported occurrence of specimens in Kent, at the same time 

 and place as A. Niohc7\ 



Genus 4. MELIT^A. 



Antennas with a rather long club, not spatulate. Wings 

 rounded at the hind margins ; upper side tawny, with black 

 lines and bands ; under side without silvery spots. 



Larv^ spiny ; living gregariously under plants until after 

 hybernation ; thence separately. 



PuP^ short, thick, blunt in front, not angulated. 



Our three species may be easily distinguished thus : — 



(1) Under side of hind wings without black dots. 



M. Athalia. 



(2) Under side of hind wings with three rows of black 



dots. M. Ciiixia. 



(3) Under side of hind wings with one row of black 



dots. M. Artemis. 



1. M. Athalia, Esp. — Expanse, H inch. Tesselated 

 with fulvous and dark brown ; hind wings chequered beneath 

 with white and fulvous, but without dots. 



Dull reddish-fulvous, much clouded from the base with 

 blackish-brown ; with the costal margins, nervures, tranverse 

 stripes, and hind margins blackish-brown, giving the wings a 

 tesselated appearance. The transverse markings of the fore 

 wings commence with three large, elongated, irregular spots in 

 the discal cell, the two first of which sometimes enclose two 

 fulvous spots each, giving them somewhat the form of the figure 

 8 ; joined, the first to the dark basal area, the second and third 

 to a large blackish, curved, and elongated blotch upon the 

 dorsal margin, forming a somewhat broken broad band ; 



