162 nymphalid^e. 



Except that it is slightly smaller it is absolutely indistinguishable 

 from many Sikhim and Burmese specimens of M. zitenius. 



Two female specimens of M. zitenius in the British Museum, 

 collected by me years ago in Tenasserim, show markings approach- 

 ing those of the doubtfully distinct M. ambasara, Moore (M. 

 r/naphodes, Butler), from Java. In these two specimens the black 

 subapical spots on the upperside of the fore wing are wanting ; the 

 ochraceous-yellow colour forms a very broad, prominent, oblique 

 subapical bar from costa to termen. 



194. Melanitis bethami, de Niceville, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 451 : Moore, 

 Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 127, pi. 125, figs. 1, 1 a-\ e, <S $ , 



Wet-season form. — 3 2 • Shape of the wings as in M. zitenius. 

 Upperside very dark blackish brown, paler along the terminal 

 margins, the subapical black spots wanting; a tolerably large patch, 

 orange-yellow preapically, on the fore wing, larger and generally 

 extended to the termen in the 2 * bearing in interspace 3 a round 

 white central black ocellus. Underside purplish brown, somewhat 

 closely and evenly irrorated with short transverse dark brown striae ; 

 fore wing with four obscure, hind wing with six postdiscal small 

 ocelli. 



Dry-season form. — 3 2 • Fore wing more falcate than in the wet- 

 season form. Upperside : grouud-colour a warmer richer brown, 

 the terminal margins broadly ashy ; the orange-yellow patch on fore 

 wing much larger, subtriangular, inwardly extending almost to the 

 apex of the cell, outwardly sometimes to apex and termen of wing ; 

 subapical black spots bearing a white spot on their outer margins, 

 small but always present, completely surrounded by the orange- 

 yellow. Hind wing with one or two white spots near tornus. 

 Underside very variable, as in all the forms of Melanitis. Antennas 

 brown, marked with ochraceous yellow in the <S ; head, thorax 

 and abdomen dull brown. 



Exp. tf 2 72-84 mm. (2-8-3-3"). 



Hah. Eecorded only as yet from Pachmari in Central India. 



Genus CYLLOGENES. 



Cyllogenes, Butler, Cat. Satyr. Brit. Mus. 1868, p. 6 ; M. ty de N. 

 Butt. Ind, i, 1883, p. 260 ; Moore, Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 137. 



Type, C. suradeva, Moore, from Sikhim. 



Range. Eecorded only from Sikhim; Bhutan; Assam, the Naga 

 Hills. 



cJ 2 • Allied to Melanitis. Differs in having comparatively 

 broader wings with much broader discocellular cells. Typically 

 the apex of the fore wing is acute, never rounded or falcate as in 

 Melanitis. Vein 1 of the fore wing is remarkably short in the 

 males, terminating on the dorsal margin at a distance of less than 

 half the length of the latter from base. Hind wing broadly 

 caudate at vein 4 ; vein 7, and not vein 8, produced to apex of 

 wing, vein 8 terminating on the basal half of the costa. The rest 



