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MELANIPPE, Diip. 



This genus is characterized as haviiij^ the auteiinEe of l)oth sexes simple ; nevertheless not 

 a few forms having pectiuatcd or ciliated antenna; iu the male have been erroneously added 

 to the genus. 



Melanippe minuta. (Plate CXXXVII. figs. 15, 10.) 



Nearest to M. r'lvutn of Europe : very similar in pattern, nearly one third smaller, 

 sericeous, more or less suffused with grey; the basal fourth of the costa of primaries occupied 

 by an irregular white-edged dark brown patch ; the subbasal transverse undulated Hues of 

 M. rivata either wanting or only partially indicated by two or three black spots towai-ds costa 

 and a tapering streak from inner margin ; the central belt usually nell-defined, but iu some 

 females with diffused inner edge ; the lines ou the disc usually better defined and denticu- 

 lated ; the subapical costal dark brown spot continued to apex, but divided in the centre by 

 the submarginal white line; two well-defined dark brown spots on the outer margin, bounded 

 internally by the submarginal line ; the broken black marginal line better marked ; the 

 fringe broader, its inner half blackish, its outer half grey, with basal and postmedian white 

 lines ; and with apical and central white spots : secondaries grey, crossed beyond the middle 

 by white-edged darker bands ; marginal line and fringe similar to those of the primaries, but 

 without the white spots : palpi black, tipped with white ; head white ; collar brown, with two 

 small central white spots ; thorax white, crossed in front by a dark brown stripe ; abdomen 

 grey, with more or less defined darker transverse bands. Under surface gi'ey; wings seri- 

 ceous, with black discocellular spots as above ; an angular, partly blackish-edged white discal 

 line, an undulated submargiiud series of white spots; a slender broken marginal blackish 

 line, followed by a whitish line at the base of the fringe; legs bone-whitish. Expanse of 

 wings 19-20 millim. 



Dharmsala. 



Melanippe despicienda. (Plate CXXXVII. fig. 17.) 



Fuliginous brown, primaries darker than secondaries; the central band formed as in 

 M. intermediata, grey with black margins and bounded by a grey-edged white line ; a simi- 

 larly edged grey basal patch followed by two dark grey or blackish irregular lines ; an oblique 

 discocellular black dash within the central band followed by a short bisinuated grey-brown 

 line from the costa to the second median branch ; two undulated parallel dusky lines beyond 

 the central band and a similarly formed white submarginal line; a slender black marginal 

 line interrupted at the end of each vein ; fringe whitish tipped with grey and traversed by a 

 grey stripe : secondaries whitish towards base and costa, dusky towards outer margin. 



