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NYMPH ALID^. 
Genus MELIT^A. 
Melitcea, Fabricius, Illiger's Magazin, vi. p. 284 (1807) ; Doubleday, Gen. Dium. Lep. i. 
p. 177 (1848) ; de Niceville, Butt. Ind. ii. p. 23 (188G). 
"Head rather small, clothed with hair ; forehead narrow. 
" Eyes oval, not prominent. 
" Paljn divergent, porrect, slightly ascending, projecting considerably beyond the forehead ; all 
the joints hairy. First joint stout, curved ; second joint subcylindric, rather compressed, 
somewhat stoutest in the middle, twice the length of the first ; third joint slender, almost 
acicular, about the same length as the first. 
" Atitennce short, scarcely half the length of the costal margin of the wing, rather slender, 
terminating in a short, pyriform, large club. 
" Thoeax moderately stout, elongate oval, clothed with long hairs, 
" Fore win[i nearly triangular ; the costal margin scarcely, or not at all, rounded ; outer margin 
two thirds the length of the costal, rounded, often but slightly ; inner margin nearly 
straight, longer than the outer. Costal nervure rather stout, scarcely extending beyond 
the middle of the costal margin. Subcostal nervure slender ; its first nervulo thrown off 
before the end of the cell ; its second beyond the cell, opposite, or nearly so, to the termi- 
nation of the costal nervure ; the third nearer to the second than to the fourth ; fourth 
nearer to the third than to the apex. Upper discocellular nervule very short ; middle 
discocellular curved inwards, about half the length of the lower, which is but little curved, 
and anastomoses with the third median ncrvulc not far from its origin. Internal nervure 
wanting. 
" //incZ wn*// obovate ; the shoulder very prominent; the costal margin nearly straight, equal 
in length to the inner ; outer much rounded, but little more than half the length of the 
other margins. Prsccostal nervure simple. Discoidiil nervulo appearing to be a third 
subcostal nervule, arising from the second subcostal nervule soon after its origin. Coll 
open. Third median nervulo but little curved. Inner margin entirely embracing the 
abdomen. 
" Fore, legs of tlie male liairy and scaly; the femur and tibia of about ccpial length, unarmed. 
Tarsus smooth, subcylindric, slightly tapering at the base and apex ; one-jointed, but some- 
times showing slight indications of articulations ; shorter than the tibia. Of the female with 
the tiljiu) sliorter tlian tlie femora, unarmed, ratlicr stouter towards tlie apex. Tarsus five- 
jointed ; the first joint cylindric, elongate, equal or more tlian equal to the rest combined, 
mostly armed at the a])ex, as are the three following joints always, with a spine on each 
side; second joint much shorter ; rest 1 ransversc ; fifth somolimos very small. 
" Middle and hind lei/s with the f(!mora about ei|U!il in lengtli to the tibia>, rather roljust. 
Tibiic and tarsi densely clot lied witli scales, the former rather longer than the latter, smooth 
externally, s])iny laterally and internally; the lateral spines long, the internal ones vcrj' 
short. Tarsi with all the joints nearly cylindric, slightly tapering to the claw, spiny 
laterally and Ixdow, not above; the spines on the lower surface of all the joints arranged 
in a double sei'ie.i ; lateral spines long. Pirst joint not e(jual to the rest combined ; second 
joint nearly half the length of the first; third and fourth progressively shorter ; fifth equal 
