SATYRIN^. 117 



Habitat. — Cachar. 



DisTRiBUTroN.— " Mr. J. Wood-Mason took a single male in the forests near 

 Silcuri on Gth August, and another male on Nemotho Peak at 3300 feet elevation 

 on 25th November" (J. A. S. Beng. 1887, 351). 



Indo-Malatan allied Erites. — E. elegans, Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. 

 p. 147, pi. 2, fig. 4, S (1868).— Staudinger, Exot. Schmett., pi. 82 {1887) .—Habitat. 

 Sarawak, Borneo. — E. ochreana, Staudinger, But. Zeit, Lep. 1889, p. 38. Habitat. 



?__E7. Madura, Horsfield, Catal. Lep. B. I. C. pi. 5, figs. 8, 8a (1829). 



Habitat. Java. 



Genus MELANITIS. 



Melanitis, Fabricius, Syst. Gloss. (Illiger's Mag. vi. p. 282 (1807). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mns. E. I. 



Company i. p. 222 (1857); id. Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 14 (1880). Butler, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1868, 



p. 194; id. Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 1 (1868) ; id. datal. Fabriciaii Lep. B. M. p. 9 (1869). 



Distant, Ehop. Malayana, p. 40 (1882). Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 250 



(1883). 

 Eipio, Hiibner, Verz, bek. Schmett. p. 56 (1816). 

 Cijllo, Boisduval, Voy. Astrolabe, Lep. p. 140 (1832). Doubleday, List. Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 120 



(1844). Westwood, Gen. D. Lep. p. 360 (1851). Scudder, Proc. Amer. Acad. A. Sci. Boston, 



1875, p. 151. 



Imago. — Wings moderately short, broad. Forewing subtriangular ; costa 

 convex, apex obtusely pointed, exterior margin oblique, more or less angled below 

 the apex and slightly waved below the angle, posterior margin nearly straight ; cell 

 very long ; first and second subcostal veinlets emitted before end of the cell ; upper 

 discocellular twice angled close to subcostal, lower discocellular long and obliquely 

 concave, radials from the upper angles ; median veinlets wide apart ; submedian 

 recurved and terminating above the posterior angle. Hindwing short, subovate, 

 costa slightly arched, apex convex, exterior margin sinuous and produced into an 

 obtuse angle at end of the upper median veinlet, abdominal margin long ; costal 

 vein curved and extending to the apex ; precostal short; subcostal bent close to the 

 costal vein near the base, the first branch ending below the apex ; cell broad ; 

 discocellular oblique, convex, bent outward above the middle, radial from the angle; 

 middle median emitted before end of the cell. Body short, slender ; palpi porrect, 

 compressed, compactly and densely clothed to tip with short scaly hairs, apex obtuse, 

 legs slender, antennae slender ; eyes naked. 



Adult Cateepillae. — Elongated, somewhat fusiform, slightly pubescent, the 

 terminal segment armed with two divergent pubescent fleshy processes ; head large, 

 prominent, armed with two vertically erect well-separated pubescent fleshy processes. 

 Feeds on grasses. 



Chrysalis. — Thick, simple ; abdomen dorsally convex ; thorax broad and 

 dorsally obtuse ; head case terminated in an obtuse point in front. 



