MELANIPPE. 55 



Melanippe bella. (Plate LIV. fig. 10.) 

 Slelanippe bella, Bvtler, Ann. 4' ^laj- ^<-i.t. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 448 (1878). 



Allied to the preceding, but ■with unusually small secondai'ics : wings white, suffused, 

 excepting at the borders, with stramineous ; the apical and infero-cxterual borders blotched 

 with red-brown and bounded internally by a discal series of blackish rounded spots, interrupted 

 on each wing upon the second median interspace ; black discocellular spots : primaries with 

 the costal border spotted with red-brown and grey, most broadly above the end of the cell ; a 

 tawny spot near the base of inner margin ; two or three veiy indistinct slender brownish lines 

 across the wing, the outermost one zigzag : secondaries with a grey basal stripe, a central 

 grey elbowed belt, and an arched grey stripe just beyond the middle : body white, head 

 sordid, antenna; black. Wings below with all the markings black or grey ; a central belt 

 followed by a grey streak on all the wings ; basal area of primaries greyish : body grey, whitish 

 in front ; legs varied above with black and white. Expanse of mngs 1 inch 4-6 lines. 



Yokohama [Jonas) ; Hakodate [WhiteJy). 



Melanippe snpergressa. (Plate LIV. fig. 11.) 

 Melanippe supergressa, Butler, Ann. 4' ^Ifi'J. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 44S (1878). 



Closely allied to M. rivata of Europe, the markings blacker, the discal white belt beyond 

 the central band broader ; the base of secondaries white, irrorated with grey, but not 

 densely; three central parallel dark grey lines not reaching the costa : wings below with the 

 markings better defined. Expanse of wings 1 inch 1 line. 



Hakodate [Whitely] ; Yokohama [Jonas). 



The whiter base to the secondaries and the blacker bands are the most evident dis- 

 tinctions between this form and M. rivata. 



Melanippe hecate. (Plate LIV. fig. 12.) 

 Melanippe hecate, Butler, Ann. 4' Maj. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 448 (1878). 



Black, indistinctly mottled with grey : wings with the fringes spotted with white ; a 

 broad irregular white band just beyond the middle, strongly angulated on the primaries ; these 

 wings also with a double submarginal series of pale spots ; the inner series with one upon the 

 costa, and a second just beyond the angle of the irregular band, white : back of head white, 

 antennas dotted with white, abdomen with white margins to the segments. Wings below 

 greyer than above, the basal area crossed by parallel transverse whitish streaks ; body white. 

 Expanse of wings 1 inch 4 lines. 



Yokohama [Jonas). 



Allied to M. furcifascia. 



