6 LEPIDOPTERA IJSfDICA. 



Ilie inner-discal briglit interspace being sinuously black- edged, and the outer-discal 

 interspace traversed by a slight black-speckled lunular line. 



Female. Upperside slightly more dusky fulvous than the male ; the two black 

 discal rows of spots broader and transversely confluent, the outer marginal band 

 medially traversed by more distinctly-defined lunules, those on the forewing being 

 mostly' pale fulvescent-white. Underside similar to the male. 



Expanse <J In,, ? 1 /o to 1 j", inch. 



Haisitat.- — Native Sikkim ; Chumbi ; Til)et. 



DisTRiBUTiOiM. — Mr. H. J. Elwes and Mr. Otto Miiller obtained specimens of this 

 species from native collectors, taken at high elevations on the Sikkim-Chumbi 

 frontier. Specimens of both sexes, from Yatung, Tibet, taken by Captain E. H. 

 Hobson, are in the British Museum. 



China and Japan Spkchos. — Mdlicfu Xlphona (Mel. Athalia, var. Niphona, 

 Butler, Cist. Ent. ii., p. 281 (1878). Fryer, Rhop. Niphon, p. 27, pi. 7, fig. 6. 

 Leech, Butt, of China, p. 214, pi. 24, fig. 7, ? (1893). Habitat. Japan, Corea.— 

 Mellicta Frofomedia (Mel. Frotomedia. Menetr., Schrenck's Reisen Amurland, ii. 

 Lep. p. 23, pi. 2, fig 6, 7, S ? (1859). Fixen, Rom. Mem. Lep. iii. p. 298, pi. 14, 

 fig. 2 (1887). Leech, Butt, of China, p. 216, pi. 24, fig. 8, ? (1893). Hahitat. 

 Amurland ; Corea ; C. China. — Mellida Orieiifalis (Mel. Fartheuia, var. Oi'ientalis, 

 Menetr, Schrenck's Reisen Amurland, ii. Lep. p. 23, pi. 2, fig. 5 (1859). Alpheraky, 

 Rom. Mem. Lep. ix., p. 321, pi. 14, fig. 2 (1897). Hahitat. Amurland. — Mdlida 

 Jezabel (Mel. Jezabel, Oberthur, Etudes Ent. xi. p. 17, pi. 2, fig. 14 (1886). Leech, 

 Butt, of China, p. 217, pi. 24, fig. 9, ?. Habitat. E. Tibet; W. China.— ildlida 

 Leedi.i (Mel. Leechi, Alpheraky, Rom. Mem. Lep. ix. p. 103, pi. 9, fig 4 (1897). 

 Habitat. China. 



Genus MELIT^A.. 



Melifiea, Fabricius, Illiger's Mag. vi. p. 284 (1807). 



Melitcea (part) Doubleday, Gen. D. Lep. i, p. 177 (1848). de Niccville, Butt, of India, etc. ii. p. 23 



(188G). 

 C'mclidia, HULner, Verz. bek. Scbmett. p. 29 (1816). Scndder, Proc. Amer. Acad. A. et. Sc, 1875, 



p. 142 ; Butt, E.U.S. i. p. 667 (1889). 

 Mdinvea, Sodoffsky, Butt. Mo^c. x. p. 80 (1837). 

 JUellicta (part), Biliberg, Enura. Ins. p. 77 (1820). 



Imago. — Male. Forewing subtriangular ; costa very slightly arched from the 

 base, apes obtuse, exterior margin slightly oblique and convex ; first subcostal branch 

 emitted at about one-fifth before end of the cell, second branch at one-fifth beyond 

 the cell, thii'd at two-fifths; cell broad; upper discocellular very short, extending 

 in a line from subcostal, middle and lower discocellulars very slightly concave; 



