8 LEriDOPTERA ISDICA. 



tke basal black spots small, the meilial-discal transverse marks more or less slender, 

 the latter series being sometimes joined to those inwardlj-edging the fulvous outer 

 band ; tlie outer marginal spots somewhat lunate ; veins white. Body above and 

 palpi fulvous; abdomen slightly banded with black in female; abdomen beneath 

 white; legs pale fulvous ; antenme black above, annul.ited with white beneath, tip 

 fulvous. 



Female. Upperside pale fulvous, with similar black markings as in male. 

 Underside as in male. 



Expanse, S If^ to \^q, ? li^o to In) inch. 



Habitat. — Persia; N.W. India. 



Distribution. — Major J. ^V. Yerbury found it at " Campbellpur, a military 

 station about forty miles from Kawal Pindi, at 1200 feet above sea-level, Khairabad 

 side near Attock bridge, in November " 1885 (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, 362). Major 

 Yerburj' also says that it was " not uncommon round Campbellpur in June 188-5, and 

 again in March 1886 ; the spring brood seemed to be larger, darker coloured, and 

 with the base of the wing-s invaded with dusky. Common also at Attock and 

 Khairabad " {id. 1888, 138). Specimens were also taken by Major Y'erbury, at 

 Hurripur in October 188*). Examples of both sexes from Jumrood, taken in 

 September, are in the British Museum. We possess examples, received from Major 

 Yerbury, taken at Campbellpur in March, May and June 18S6; Attock in May; 

 and at Hurripur in October. Of our illustrations on Plate 379, figs. 1, la, b, c, d, 

 e, f, g, are from males and females taken by Major Yerbury. 



MELIT.S;A ROBERTSI (Plate 379, fig. 2, 2a, (^ ; 2b, c, ? ). 



MelitcBa Boherts!, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1880, p. -iOG, pi. 39, fig. 2; id. 1881, p. 605. 



Swii.hoe, Trans. Ent. Soe. Lend. 18S.5, p. 389. 

 Melit(ea Boheiisi (part), de Niccville, Butt, of India, ii. p. 27. 

 Melitcv.a Djdijsoni, Grose-Smith, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1887, p. 130. 



Imago. Male. Upperside bright fulvous ; base slightly black speckled ; cilia 

 white, alternated with black. Foreivlnr/ with two black slender basal cell-bars, the 

 second being more or less angled, an irregular bar across the middle of cell, and 

 two bars enclosing the discocellulars ; two dentate marks below the cell ; a 

 transverse discal angulated row of large spots; an obscure subapical costal streak ; 

 a submarginal recurved row of more or less decreasing obsolescent smaller spots, 

 the lower three or four being slightly dentate or lunate; followed by a marginal 

 row of well- separated conical spots, and then, an extreme outer marginal slender 

 line. Hindwinrj with obscurely-defined slender black cell-bars, and very obsolescent 

 discal markings, followed by a submarginal curved row of small slender luuules, and 



