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 

 antennae. 



Explanation of Plate :— 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, ^ , upper and under side. 



THE ATHALIA GEOUP OF THE GENUS MELITMA. 

 By George Wheeler, M.A., F.E.S. 



(Continued from p. 32.) 



The 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-gvoxi^, as, indeed, is the 

 case with hertha, and even with corythalia itself. The first of the 

 two is : — 



ab. hisopa, Selys-Longchamps, " Enumeration des Insectes 

 L^pidopteres de la Belgique," p. 19 (published in the * M6moires 

 de la Societe Scieutifique de Liege, 1845). It is described as 

 follows: — "Dessus* des ailes brun. Les superieures avec trois 

 bandes de taches fauves tres larges, les inferieures avec une 

 bande seule analogue anteterminale. Dessous des inferieures 

 avec quatre taches arrondies noires a la base qui est fauve. Cette 

 couleur termin^e par du noir. Le reste d'un jaune clair, avec 

 les nervures et une raie anteterminale noires et une serie trans- 

 verse de cinq taches fauves non cercl6es 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 Soci6t6 Ento- 

 mologique Beige,' 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 baud, 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. 



