CATALOGUE 





OF 



LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 



FIFTH SEKIES. 



Fam. 19. LARENTID^. 



(Continued). 



Genus 18. MELANIPPE. 



Corpus gracile. Proboscis mediocris. Palpi la?ves, squamosi, 

 acuti, caput paullo superantes; articulus 3us conicus, brevissimus. 

 Antenna? simplices, maris saepissime vix pubescentes. Abdomen 

 saepissime albo fasciatam aut nigro punctatum. Tibia3 postica? sub- 

 incrassata?, femoribns vix longiores, calcaribus quatuor longis. Ala? 

 albo-nigrae, concolores, lituris non diversis: antics Integra?, sub- 

 acute?; postica? margine exteriore vix dentato. Fcem. — Abdomen 

 carinatum, depressum, apice subincrassatum. 



Melanippe, Dup. Lep. iv. HI; Boisd. ; Steph.; Guen. Phal. ii. 



386. 

 Cidaria, p., et Zerene, p., Treit. 

 Eulype, Oalostigia, Plemyria, Epirrhoe, Xanthorhoe, et Cosmor- 



hoe, Hubn.Verz. Schm. 327, 328, 329. 

 Melanthia, p., Boisd,; Steph. 

 Harpalyce et Xerene, Steph. 

 Larentia, p., Herr.-Sch. 



Body slender. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi smoothly 

 squamous, acute, extending a little beyond tbe front; tbird joint 

 conical, very small. Antenna? simple, most often hardly pubescent 

 in tbe male. Abdomen almost always with white bands or with a 

 double row of black points. Legs moderately long; hind tibia? 

 slightly iucrassated, hardly longer than the hind femora, with four 



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