NTMPHALIN.E. (Gronp melit.eixa.) 9 



tlien a marginal row of well-separated conical spots, and an extreme outer marginal 

 line. Underside bright fulvous. Forewing with markings, as on npperside, but 

 much less defined ; the apex and borders of marginal spots pale yellow. Hindu-ni<j 

 with basal, discal, and marginal band, and cell spot, disposed as in M. Ptmea, pale 

 yellow; the transverse series of spots and bordering lunules being also similarly 

 disposed. 



Female. Upperside paler fulvous, the base being greyish-black scaled. 

 Forewing with well-defined black cell-marks, a ringlet-mark below the cell, inner- 

 discal angulated row of spots, subapical streak, and very obscure lower speckled- 

 spots ; submarginal recurved row of spots and marginal row of well-separated 

 conical spots ; the apical and discal interspaces slightly fulvescent-white. lliadiflih/ 

 with slender black basal and cell bars, very obsolescent iuner-discal markings ; 

 followed by a submarginal row of black lunules, then a marginal row of well- 

 separated conical spots, and marginal line. Underside similar to the male, except 

 that the apex and outer margin of forewing, and the basal, discal, and marginal 

 band of hindwing, are white. 



Expanse, S In, to l^^o^ ° 1 u) T^^ch. 



Habitat. — South Afghanistan. 



DiSTRiBDTiox. — The type specimens were obtained, by Major Howland Roberts, 

 at Kokeran, near Kandahar, in 1880, where he found it "rather common on the 

 bare uncultivated wastes, at the foot of the Hills, at end of May and beginning of 

 June. One chrysalis was found, but not the larva; the chrysalis was loose in the 

 middle of a low plant" (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, 406). Colonel C. Swinhoe took it at 

 " Chaman, S. Afghanistan, in April and May; fairly common" (Tr. Ent. Soc. 188o, 

 339). The specimens described as M. Dochjsoni by Mr. H. Grose-Smith, which we 

 have examined, were taken by Capt. Dodgson, R.A., at Gwashki, fifty-seven miles 

 S.E. of Quetta, at an elevation of 8600 feet. 



MELIT^A CHITRALENSIS (Plate 3S0, fig. 1, la, c?, 1 b, c, ? ). 



Imago. Male and female. Wings shaped as in M. BalbUa. Cilia white, 

 alternated with black. Male. Upperside bright fulvous-red ; veins externally black 

 lined, Forewing with the costal and posterior edge black ; basal pointed-marks 

 filled in with black ; two black angled-bars across middle of the cell, an oval mark 

 enclosing the discocellulars, its outer side being broadest and reaching to the costa ; 

 a ringlet-mark and an angled-bar below the cell; an inner-discal transverse recurved 

 row of largo quadrate spots, a very slightly-defined subapical costal speckled-streak, 

 and lower series of obsolescent speckled spots ; followed by a submarginal continuous 

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