MELITvEA. 



453 



A form of the race sikhimensis recorded from Tibet has been 

 separated by Col. Fawcett as M. tibetana. It closely resembles 

 sikhimensis, but differs on the upperside in the prominently pale 

 ochraceous colour of the base and apex of the cell of the fore wing, 

 and in a similarly coloured terminal row of lunular transverse 

 marks on both fore and hind wings. On the underside it is 

 generally paler than sikhimensis. 



444. Melitsea didyma, JEsper (Papilio), Eur. Schmett. i, 1780, t. 61, fig. 1 . 



Race persea. 



Meliteea pevsea, Kollar, Benksch. Akad. Wien, math-nat. CI. i, 

 1850, p. 52 ; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 27 footnote ; Moore, 

 Lep. Ind. v, 1901-1903, p. 7, pi. 379, figs. 1, la-l ff , tf $• 



Melitaaa robertsi, Butler, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 406, pi. 39, fig. 2 ; de N. 

 Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 27 footnote ; Moore, Lep. Ind. v, 1901-1903, 

 p. 8, pi. 379, figs. 2, 2 a-2 c, <$ $ . 



Race chitralensis. 

 Melitasa chitralensis, Moore, Lep. Ind. v, 1901-1903, p. 9, pi. 380, 

 figs. 1, 1 a-\ c, S $ • 



Race persea, Kollar. — 6 • Upperside tawny fulvous, with the 

 following markings :— Fore wing : costal margin narrowly black ; 

 cell with a minute black spot at base ; a trausverse larger black 

 spot; a short sinuous black line across the middle aud another 



along the inner side of the 

 discocellulars ; a similar line 

 just beyond apex of cell ; three 

 coalescent black spots at base of 

 interspace 1 ; a transverse discal, 

 twice-angulated series of black 

 spots, the upper four coalescent ; 

 a subcostal similar spot beyond 

 followed by a sinuous subtermi- 

 nal lunular transverse series of 

 spots and a narrow terminal 

 black band. Hind wing : dorsal 

 margin from base broadly suffused with black, a short subbasal 

 transverse posterior black band not reaching beyond the cell ; a 

 discal ill-defined transverse series of black spots ; a well-defined 

 subterminal lunular series of spots and terminal black band as on 

 the fore wing. Underside : fore wing ground-colour ochraceous ; 

 black markings as on the upperside, but the subterminal series of 

 spots smaller ; the apex of the wing yellowish, the terminal black 

 edging replaced by a series of small black spots and an anticiliary 

 slender black line. Hind wing ground-colour pale ochraceous 

 white ; a transverse short basal series of black spots ; a broad 

 subbasal ochraceous-red sinuous band, coalescent with a large spot 

 of the same colour in the middle of the cell ; a discal transverse 

 sinuous line of small black spots, followed by a broad postdiscal 

 outwardly-angulated ochraceous-red band ; a series of subterminal 





Fig. 82. — Melitaa didyma, 

 race persea. \. 



