16 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Melanagria, Staudinger, CataL Lep. Eur. p. 9 (1S61). H. Scliseffer, Prod. Syst. Lep. pp. 13, 58 



(1865). 

 Satyrus (part) Latreille. 



Imago. — Male. Foreiving subtriangulai' ; costa arclied at base, apex obtuse, 

 exterior margin very slightly oblique, slightly convex and slightly scalloped; costal 

 vein swollen at base ; cell broad, extending to half the wing ; discocellulars outwardly 

 oblique, angled close to subcostal, concave below the angle, upper radial from the 

 upper angle, lower radial emitted before the middle ; median veinlets long and wide 

 apart. Hinclwing short, rather broad; exterior margin convex, sinuous ; cell broad, 

 short ; discocellulars very oblique ; middle median veinlet starting considerably 

 before end of the cell. Palpi clothed in front with long porrect hairs. Antenna 

 thick, with a gradually-formed stout club. Eyes naked. 



Adult Oatebpillab. — " Cylindrical, stout, tapering towards each end ; head 

 proportionally small, almost globular ; anal segment with two short lateral points ; 

 minutely villose ; colour buff, with the longitudinal lines more or less brown, or very 

 pale yellowish-green ; the dorsal line dark green, a subdorsal line paler green with 

 yellowish borders ; subspiracular line paler ; spiracles small, round, black; head pale 

 pinkish-brown ; anal points pink ; front legs brownish, ventral and prolegs green. 

 Feeds on grasses." " Changes to a pupa among moss without suspending itself in 

 any way, or making a cocoon." 



Chrysalis. " Stout, plump, widest where the wing-cases end ; headpiece 

 sloping from the shoulders, but ends squarely ; thorax rounded ; abdomen curved 

 to the tail ; abdomen ending in a square piece, on which is placed a short blunt 

 spike, set at the end with two little groups of short straight spines ; colour pale 

 ochreous-white ; wing and antennas cases freckled with pale brown ; the segmental 

 rings marked with yellow ; a brownish stripe down the middle ; spiracles large, 

 brown ; anal spike chestnut-brown." 



Egg. " Large and plump, stumpy, ovate in outline, the shell looking like dull 

 bone-white china, and is covered all over with very shallow rhomboidal network, 

 with very tiny knobs at the knots, and with a central patch of finer meshes on the 

 top." (Buckler's Larvae Brit. Butt. i. p. 161.) 



Type. — A. Galathea. 



No species of this genus has yet been recorded from within our northern limits. 

 Specimens of a species closely allied to A. Cleanthe, from Tekes, Kashgar, are in the 

 British Museum Collection. A. montana. Leech, occurs in E. Tibet and Western 

 China ; A. Leda (Leech, Entom. 1891, p. 67) is also described from W. China. Also 

 A. Halimede, Menetries (Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1889, p. 101, pi. 8, figs. 5, 6). 

 Habitat. Amurland; Corea. A. meridionalis, Felder (Staudinger in Romanoff's 

 Mem. Lep. 1887, p. 147, pi. 16, fig. 9, 10). Habitat. W. China. 



