LEPIDOPTEEA INDICA. 



Sub-family NYMPHALINiE {couimued). 

 Group VII. MELIT^EINA. 



Lemoniailes, Hiibiier, Tentamen Lep. p. 1 (1805). 



Lcmoiiiadi's (part), Hiibner, Vei'z. bek. Sclimett. p. 26 (1816). 



Argynnites (part), Blauchard, Hi.st. Nat. Inst. ii. p. 331 (1845). 



Arijynnidi (part), Stephens, Catal. Brit. Lep. B.M. p. 13 (1850). Staiiiton, Jlimual Brit. Lpp. i. p. 21 



(1857). 

 ArgynnidcB (i)art), Duponchell, Catal. Mutli. Lep. Eur. p. 2 (1841). Gucuee, FauuK E. et L. Lep. 



p. 17 (1867). 

 Argynnides (part), Kirby, Eur. Butt. p. 21 (1802). Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. B.JI. p. 100 (1869). 

 Mehttfidce, Newmau, Brit. Butt. p. 39 (1871). 

 Nynqdudidiv (part), Lang, Rhop. Eur. p. 159 (1884). 

 NymphaliiKe (part), Je Nict'irille, Butt, of India, ii. p. 1 (18SG). 



Nymphalida: (Meliiwa group), Staudinger & Schaltz, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 119 (1887). 

 Meliheidi, Scudder, Butt. U.S. i. p. 618 (1889). Tutt, Brit. Butt. p. 303 (1S9G). 

 Melitceina, Moore, Lep. Indica, ii. p. 227 (1895). 



Characters of the Gkoup MEUXJiiNA. 



Tmago. — Small. Foreivings elougately-triaugular ; apes obtuse; exterior 

 margin almost eveu. Hindirivgs short, obovate ; exterior margin very sliglitl}- 

 scalloped. 



Larva. — Head small, unarmed. Body attenuated a little anteriorly, armed 

 with four longitudinal series of short coarse branched-spines. 



Pupa. — "Rather stout. Head obtuse; thorax rounded; abdominal segments 

 with dorsal and lateral small blunt tubercles " (Scudder). 



Egg. — " Somewhat acorn-shaped, higher than broad, well rounded at base and 

 at sides, and broadly docked at the summit ; with very slight longitudinal ribs 

 occupying only the upper half, the surface below being smooth, or indented with 

 polygonal or rounded depressions " (Scudder). 



Habits, etc. — The butterflies of this group "are generally single brooded 

 toward the northern limit of their range, or in high altitudes, but double brooded 

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