MELANIPPE. 
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MELANIPPE, Dup. 
This genus is characterized as having the antennae of both sexes simple ; nevertheless not 
a few forms having pectinated or ciliated antennae in the male have been erroneously added 
to the genus. 
Melanippe minuta. (Plate CXXXVII. figs. 15, 16.) 
Nearest to M. rivata of Europe : very similar in pattern, nearly one third smaller^ 
sericeous, more or less suifused with grey ; the basal fourth of the costa of primaries occupied 
by an irregular white-edged dark brown patch ; the subbasal transverse undulated lines of 
M. rivata either wanting or only partially indicated by two or three black spots towards costa 
and a tapering streak from inner margin ; the central belt usually well-defined, but in some 
females with diffused inner edge ; the lines on the disc usually better defined and denticu- 
lated ; the subapical costal dark brown spot continued to apex, but divided in the centre by 
the submarginal white line; two well-defined dark brown spots on the outer margin, bounded 
internally by the submarginal line ; the broken black marginal line better marked ; the 
fringe broader, its inner half blackish, its outer half grey, with basal and postmedian white 
lines ; and with apical and central white spots : secondaries grey, crossed beyond the middle 
by white-edged darker bands ; marginal line and fringe similar to those of the primaries, l3ut 
without the white spots : palpi black, tipped with white ; head white ; collar brown, with two 
small central white spots ; thorax white, crossed in front by a dark brown strijDC ; abdomen 
grey, with more or less defined darker transverse bands. Under surface grey; wings seri- 
ceous, with black discocellular spots as above ; an angular, partly blackish-edged white discal 
line, an undulated submarginal series of white spots; a slender broken marginal blackish 
line, followed by a whitish line at the base of the fringe; legs bone-whitish. Expanse of 
wings 19-20 millim. 
Dharmsala. 
Melanippe despicienda. (Plate CXXXVII. fig. 17.) 
Fuliginous brown, primaries darker than secondaries; the central band formed as in 
M. intermediata, grey with black margins and bounded by a grey-edged white line ; a simi- 
larly edged grey basal patch followed by two dark grey or blackish irregular lines ; an oblique 
discocellular black dash within the central band followed by a short bisinuated grey-brown 
line from the costa to the second median branch ; two undulated parallel dusky lines beyond 
the central band and a similarly formed white submarginal line; a slender black marginal 
line interrupted at the end of each vein ; fringe whitish tipped with grey and traversed by a 
grey stripe : secondaries whitish towards base and costa, dusky towards outer mai'gin, 
