SATTRIN^. 15 



Lluisli, face striped with white and black. Pupa green, cylindrical, head and thorax 

 obliquely flattened. Feeds on Graminece. 

 Found in the same districts as M. Leda. 



MEIANITIS LEDA (Plate 10, Fig. 1 a, h). 



Papilio Leda, Liunseus, Sjst. Nat. i. 2, p. 773 (1767); Drurv; Exot. Ins. i. pi. 15, f. 5,6 (1773) ; 



Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 196, f. C, D. 



Male and female. TJpperside brown : forewing with a subapical blackish spot 

 centred by two small white spots and slightly bordered inwardly with fulvous : 

 hindwing with two subanal black spots centred with white, the outer spot minute. 

 Underside greyish-ochreous, uniformly covered with delicate dark strig^ : forewing 

 with three very indistinct slender transverse fasciae, and four small apical marginal 

 ocelli : hindwing Avith an indistinct slender discal fascia and six submarginal distinct 

 ocelli. Female. TJpperside : both the subapical spots and the subanal are larger, 

 the latter series generally four in number. Underside as in male, the ocelli m6re 

 prominent. Body and legs brown. 



Expanse, ^ 2|, 5 3 inches. 



" Found at all times in the western and central provinces, in grassy places ; both 

 in the plains and hills up to 2000 feet; Flies at dawn and dusk of the evening, rarely 

 by day. Settles down in grass " (Hutchison)', 



MELANITIS TAMBRA (Plate 9, Fig. 2 a, h, c). 



Male. Upperside dark dusky olive-brown : forewing ferruginous-brown at the 

 apex, with a subapical small white spot (in some an indistinct low:er spot), and an 

 indistinct black contiguous spot : hindwing without markings. Underside dusky- 

 ferruginous or purple-ferruginous, veins speckled with pale ochreous, basal area 

 densely covered' with dark purple-ferruginous strigse forming three confluent irregular 

 fascia on the forewing, but are more uniformly disposed on the hindwing which has 

 a narrow discal fascia only : forewing with a pale triangular costal space before the 

 apex and four small ochreous brown-ringed spots, the penultimate spot with a 

 contiguous iuner white spot, posterior margin broadly dull sap-brown : hindwing 

 with a pale ochreous space and a contiguous dusky spot within end of the cell; disc 

 transversely washed with greyish-purple, a submarginal row of small ochreous 

 brown-ringed spots. Female. Upperside ferruginous oHve-brown: forewing with d, 

 subapical dusky-black patch extending paler across arid of the cell to costal vein,' 

 and suffusedly bordered externally and across the apex with paler ferruginous, and 

 centred with two white spots; the lowest spot small or obsolete :' hindwing with three 



