NTMI'IIALIN^:. (Broap MELIT.EIXA.) 7 



middle median brand: emitted at some distance before lower end of the cell. H/'iiiI- 

 iriiKj conically ovate ; anterior margin almost straight, exterior margin very 

 convex and slightly uneven, anal angle obtuse ; cell area short and broad across the 

 middle, open ; precostal vein incurved. BoJy stout, moderately hairy ; palpi porrect, 

 second joint extending half its length beyond the head, flattened afc the sides, 

 clothed with lung-fine rigid hairs above and beneath, apical joint elongated, pointed 

 at tip, scaled ; antennal club ovally spatulate ; eyes naked. 

 Type. M. Didyma, Esi^er. 



MELIT^A PERSEA (riate 379, figs. 1, la, b, c, J, e, (?, If, g, ?). 



Meliicea Persea, Kollar, Denksch. Akad. Wieii. M. Nat. CI. i. p. 52 (1850). Butlsr, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



Lond. 1886, 362. 

 Melitwa Euhertsi (part), de Nicei'illo, Butt, of India, etc. ii. p. 27 (1S8G). 



Imago. — Male and female. Wings of the same shape, and the pattern of 

 markings, as in the European M. Didijmn. Cilia white, alternated with black. 

 Male. Upperside pale fulvous ; veins concolorous with the ground-colour ; base of 

 wings either without blackish scales, but with the black outline of the basal marks only, 

 visible, or, the basal marks ax-e more or less filled in with blackish scales. Foreioiinj 

 also with black slender slightly-angled bars across middle of the cell, two similai' 

 bars below the cell, and a more or less oval mark enclosing the discocellulars, which 

 latter sometimes extends to the costa ; followed by a transverse medial-discal recurved 

 series of more or less rounded spots, the lowest of which is sometimes narrow and 

 anoled outward, the upper four spots being more or less confluent, occasionally these 

 latter spots are of uniform size and partly confluent ; a subapical short costal angled 

 streak, and sometimes below it are obscure speckles between the veins ; beyond is a 

 submarginal row of dentate spots, which are either of uniform size or decreasing 

 posteriorly ; and then a marginal lunulated entire band ; a whitish costal interspace 

 slightly apparent between the subapical streak and upper submarginal spot, lllnd- 

 ■wing also with a black slender bar across middle of the cell, two discocellular bars, 

 the latter sometimes interspaced with black scales and continued to the costa ; 

 followed by an inner-discal transverse angulated series of more or less confluent 

 luuules ; a medial-discal recurved row of i-ovmd spots, which latter are sometimes 

 obscure or partly obsolete : a submarginal row of narrow lunules decreasing hind- 

 ward, and then a marginal lunulated entire baud. Underside paler fulvous. Foir- 

 wing with transverse markings as on upperside, but less prominent, the apex and 

 outer marginal interspaces dull white. Iliiidwing with the base and inner margin, a 

 triangular cell spot, transverse discal band, and the outer marginal band dull white, 

 disposed as in M. Didi/ma, their bordering black edge-marks slender, and lunular ; 



