MELANARGIA. 
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" Fore legs in both sexes exceedingly minute, concealed amongst the hairs of the breast ; those of 
the male with the femur oval, compressed. Tibia about as long, broad and compressed, 
narrowed at the base. Tarsus as long as the tibia, gradually attenuated to the tip, where 
are several short bristles. Fore legs of the female shorter than those of the male, but 
rather broader. The tibia shorter than the femur ; and the tarsus than the tibia ; the 
tarsus being very short and conical, and apparently exarticulate, with a few bristles at 
the tip. 
Four land legs rather long and slender, scaly. Tibia of the middle legs much shorter than 
that of the hind ones ; tibia? armed beneath with two rows of slender long spines ; tibial 
spurs long and acute. Tarsi very long, armed with several rows of sharp spines. Claws 
long, curved, acute, and entire, rscudonychia long, slender, bifid. Pulvillus moderately 
produced. 
" Abdomex long and slender." {Westwood, I.e.) 
Melanargia halimede. (Plate XI. figs. 1 & 7, vars.) 
Arge halimede, Menetries, Bull, de I'Acad. xvii. p, 216; Schrenck^s Reisen, p. 37, pi. iii. 
figs. 6c?, 7?. 
Melanargia halimede, var. meindionalis, Felder, Wien. ent. Mon. vi. p. 29 (1862). 
Melanargia halimede and var. meridionalis, Rom. sur Lep. iii. p. 309, pi. xvi. figs. 9 & 10 
(1887). 
Melanargia halimede, var. lugens, Honrath, Ent. Naclir. xiv. p. 161 (1888) . 
Melanargia halimede, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1889, p. 101, pi. 8. figs. 5, 5 a. 
Melanargia halimede, var. montana, Leech, Entomologist, xxiii. p. 26 (1890). 
Yar. meridionalis, Feld. " A M. Jialimede amurensi haec varietas circa Ningpo proveniens 
colore diffcrt fusco praedominante fasciisque albis idcirco angustioribus. Ad sectionem M. 
laclieseos, Hiibn., egregia species pertinet." 
As will be seen by Felder's description quoted above, it is expressly stated 
that the dark colouring predominates in var. meridionalis. This is invariably 
the case Avith specimens from Ningpo and Kiukiang, but not with those from 
Amurland or Corea. 
The darkest and lightest specimens, selected from over 130 examples from 
Kiukiang, are figured in Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1889, pi. 8. figs. 5 & 5 a. 
Fig. 5 agrees well with a hand-coloured drawing of Felder's type of meridiO' 
nalis, for which I am indebted to the kindness of Dr. Rogenhofer of Vienna. 
Corean halimede are darker than Amurland examples ; but from neither of 
these localities has anything dark enough for var. meridionalis been received ; 
the form usually kno-svn by this name is really only an intermediate between 
Felder's variety and the type, and such is Ilomanofi"s fig. 10, pi. xvi., in 
' Memoires sur les Lepidopteres,' vol. iii. 
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