RAGADIA. — MELANITIS. 157 



discal white band straight on fore, curved on hind wing, the 

 intervening black space with the ocelli of the underside showing 

 through. Lastly, a faint dusky pale subterminal band on both 

 fore and hind wing. Underside similar, the transverse bands 

 pure white and more clearly defined, the ocelli precisely as in 

 R. crisilda. Antennas, head, thorax and abdomen as in R. 

 crisilda. 



Exp. c? 2 50-60 mm. (2-2-38"). 



Hob. Bhutan ; Upper Assam. 



190. Ragadia critolaus, de Niceville, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. vii, 

 1893, pi. H, fig. 1 J ; Moore, Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 112. 



6 2 ■ This local form, apparently confined to Tenasserim, 

 resembles R. crito, from which it can be distinguished as follows : — 

 Upperside : discal white band crossing both wings very much 

 broader than in R. crisilda, postdiscal white band also slightly 

 broader; both much more sharply and clearly defined. Underside 

 similar to the upperside ; all the bands pure white. 



Exp. S2 42-44 mm. (1-68-1-75"). 



Hob. Tenasserim. 



Genus MELANITIS. 



Melanitis, Fabr. lllig. Mag. vi, 1807, p. 282 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. \, 

 1880, p. 14 ; M. | de N. Butt. Ind. i, 1883, p. 250; Moore, Lep. 

 Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 117. 



Type, M. leda, Linn., from Amboina. 



Range. Africa; Madagascar; Mauritius; throughout the Indo- 

 Malayan Eegion to Australia. 



<5 5 . Fore wing short, broad, triangular, costa very strongly 

 arched ; apex obtuse, acute or falcate, in the dry-seasonal 

 form very falcate ; the termen below the falcation straight, very 

 slightly scalloped ; tornus distinct but rounded, dorsum straight ; 

 cell rather long, well over half length of wing ; discocellulars, 

 upper and middle subequal, very short, veins 5, 6 and 7 therefore 

 closely approximate at base ; lower discocellular strongly concave, 

 veins 10 and 11 from well before apex ; vein 12, subcostal and 

 median normal. Hind wing irregularly oval, costa arched ; termen 

 straight to vein 4, thence to tornus produced, scalloped, dorsum 

 straight; cell short, much under half length of wing; disco- 

 cellulars oblique, upper and middle subequal, vein 3 from well 

 before apex of cell ; costal margin very broad at base of wing ; 

 vein 8 produced along costa to apex. Antennas about half length 

 of fore wing, slender, club very gradual, blunt at apex ; palpi 

 compressed, long, but with no fringe of long hairs ; eyes naked; 

 intermediate and posterior femora long, not hairy beneath. 



On the upperside the Indian forms of Melanitis resemble each 

 other a good deal ; on the underside they differ remarkably, not so 

 much form from form as individually, and the so-called wet and 

 dry seasonal varieties one from the other. Broadly speaking, the 



