40 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Lipsas melampus, Horsfield aud Moore (nee Cramer), Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 32, pi. i. figs. 2, 



larva, 2a, pupa (1857). 

 Deiidorix melampus, Butler (nee Cramer), Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 181 (1869). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside scarlet-red, of a somewhat duller colour than melampus. 

 Forewing with costal and outer marginal black borders, more even on the costa than in 

 melamjnis, the apex more broadly black, the band rapidly decreasing in width 

 liindwards on the outer margin, median vein and its branches prominently black. 

 liindwing with the costal and abdominal areas brownish, outer marginal line black ; 

 anal lobe scarlet-red, lined outwardly with black ; tail black, tipped with white. Cilia 

 of both wings black with pale tips, cilia of the anal lobe and the space to the tail white, 

 tipped with black. Underside paler than in melampus, more grey, varying somewhat 

 in tint in different examples, the two lines at the ends of the cells in both wings and 

 the discal bands much as in melampus, but the discal band of the forewing is more even, 

 and both are broader and more linear, the white edgings clearer and more prominent, 

 the black anal spots are larger, there is a diffuse blackish spot in the interspace between 

 the two prominent anal spots, there is usually some white suffusion on the abdominal 

 margin above the black spot on the anal lobe, and the white anteciliary thread at the 

 anal angle is more prominent. Antennae black, ringed with white ; club with a red 

 tip ; frons pure white ; head and body brown above, with red hairs, purplish-grey 

 l>eneath. 



Female. Upperside ochreous-brown, with a slight purplish tint. Forewing with 

 the costa broadly, the outer margin narrowly obscure brown. Hindwing with the costal 

 .space broadly brownish, a blackish-brown outer marginal line ; anal lobe black with a 

 large scarlet-red spot in it, and a white spot above it on the abdominal margin. 

 I'nderside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? ly\ to l-j^ inches. 



Larva, oehreous, considerably marked with black, ornamented with a sub-dorsal 

 and a lateral series of tubercles bearing thick brushes of short black bristly hairs ; the 

 hairs conspicuous, all the segments of nearly equal width, the larva flattened, the 

 constrictions between the segments not very prominent. 



Pupa, brownish- oehreous, sprinkled with black dots, smootli, naked, of the u.?ual 

 lycsenid shape, the head rounded, the thorax slightly humped in the middle, the 

 abdomen ending in a sharp point. These descriptions are drawn up from Dr. Horsfield's 

 figures of the transformations of this species as exhibited in Java, and given in the 

 Cat. Lep. Mus. E.LC. (de Niceville.) 



Habitat. — Siam, India, Burma, Malav Peninsula, Java. 



DiSTRiBTJTiON. — The type in the Banksian Cabinet in the B. M. came from Siam ; 

 we have received examples of both sexes from the Khasia Hills, and have it also from 

 Rangoon ; Moore records it from Mergui, Elwes from Bernardmyo, Watson from Chin 



