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THE MOTTLED BEAUTY. 



Melanippe Hastata. 

 PLATE XXVIII. Fig. 3. 



Phal. Geom. Hastata, Linn. ; Don. iv. PI. 129 Phal. Hastata, 



Hatvorth The Mottled Beauty, a Moth, Wilkes. Argent 



and Sable, Harris* Aurel. PI. 15. Xerene Hastata, Treitschke, 

 Steph. 



BEARS considerable affinity to the preceding genus 

 but the anterior wings, instead of being much 

 rounded off at the tip, are but slightly so and 

 almost come to an obtuse point. The proboscis is 

 rather long, the antennas slender, simple in both 

 sexes, and the palpi short, slender, and acute, the 

 terminal joint small and pointed. The species above 

 named differs slightly from the species with which 

 it has usually been associated, and forms the type of 

 Duponchel's genus Melanippe. It measures from an 

 inch to nearly an inch and a half across the wings ; 

 the ground colour white, with a broad irregular 

 black band round the hinder margin of all the 

 wings, continuous externally, but spotted and inter- 

 rupted on the inner side : across the middle of the 

 upper wings is another black band very irregular, 

 being nearly divided in the middle, and interrupted 



