L I C I N I A Melite. 



Generic Character. 



Antenna graciles ; clava elongata, fusijormi, compressd. Palpi brevissimi, tix 

 ultra caput product i, ad linguam compressi, squamis Uncaribm tecti, mar- 

 gme ciliati, articulo ultimo suh-nudo, secundo suhcequali. Abdomen elon- 

 gatum, gracile, in maribus 6-articidatum, articulo ulfnno integro; "valvis 

 plerumque elongatis, attenuatis, apice acutis. Alee anticte (in maribus) 

 angustcE, obtuse-attenuate, (in fceminis) latiores, oblique rotundatdc. AI<e 

 postica (in maribus) dilatateB, longitudine ant ids pene (squales ; margine 

 antico opaco, infaminis breviores., suborbiculares. 



Typus Genericus L. Melite. Nobis. 



Antennae slender, the club elongated, fusiform, and compressed. Palpi 

 very short, hardly projecting beyond the head, compressed on the 

 tongTie, covered with scales and margined externally virith long hairs, 

 the last joint nearly naked and almost as long as the second joint. 

 Body elongated, slender, in the male with 6 joints, the last entire. 

 Valves generally elongated, attenuated, their tips acutely pointed. 

 Anterior wings (in the male) narrow, obtusely attenuated ; in the 

 female broader, and obliquely rounded. Posterior (in the male) di- 

 lated, nearly as long as the anterior wings, the fore margin opaque ; 

 in the female shorter, and nearly orbicular. 

 Generic Type L. Melite. 



Specific Character. 



L. ( Mas.) alls Jlavis ; anteriore supra nigra, fascia obliqua flavd, et line& hasuU 

 transversa, margine posteriory, fiuvo. (Fam.) Alis supra albis; anteriore 

 apice stigmatequ£ marginali obliquo nigris ; posteriore supra nigro mar- 

 ginatd, subtus (in utroque sexu)Jluvescente, lineis duabus transversisfuscit. 



Male. Wings yellow, anterior above black, with an oblique yellow band 

 and transverse basal line; posterior mar^gin yellow. Fem. Wings 

 above white ; anterior, Vt^ith the tips and marginal oblique stigma 

 black. Posterior, above margined with black; beneath (in both 

 sexes) yellow, with two transverse brown lines. 



Papilio MeUte. Tab. Ent. Si^st. 160, 494. Cramer, tab. 153. C. D. 



The remarkable size of the under wings in the male insects of 

 tills genus will distinguish them even to a casual observer as 

 PI. 15. 



