MELANIPPE. 
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Melanippe tella. (Plate LIV. fig. 10.) 
ilelanippe bella, Butler, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 448 (1878). 
Allied to tlie preceding, but with unusually small secondaries : wings wliite, suft'used, 
excepting at the borders, with stramineous j the apical aud infero-external borders blotched 
with red-brown and bounded internally by a discal series of blackish rounded spots, interrupted 
on each wing upon the second median interspace ; black discocellular spots : pi'imaries with 
the costal border spotted with red-brown and grey, most broadly above the end of the cell; a 
tawny spot near the base of inner margin ; two or three very indistinct slender brownish lines 
across the wing, the outermost one zigzag : secondaries with a grey basal stripe, a central 
grey elbowed belt, and an arched grey stripe just beyond the middle : body A\diite, head 
sordid, antennae black. Wings below with all the markings black or grey ; a central belt 
followed by a grey streak on all the wings ; basal area of primaries greyish : body grey, whitish 
in front ; legs varied above with black and white. Expanse of wings 1 inch 4-6 lines. 
Yokohama {Jonas) ; Hakodate (TVhitely). 
Melanippe supergressa. (Plate LIV. fig. 11.) 
Melanippe supergressa, Butler, Ann. 4' Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 448 (1878). 
Closely allied to M. rivata of Europe, the markings blacke]’, the discal white belt beyond 
the central band broader ; the base of secondaries white, irrorated with grey, but not 
densely; three central parallel dark grey lines not reaching the costa: wings below with the 
markings better defined. Expanse of wings 1 inch 1 line. 
Hakodate {Whitely) ; A^okohama {Jonas). 
The whiter base to the secondaries and the blacker bands are the most evident dis- 
tinctions between this form and M. rivata. 
Melanippe hecate. (Plate LIY. fig. 12.) 
Melanippe hecate, Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 448 (1878). 
Black, indistinctly mottled with grey : wings with the fringes spotted with white ; a 
broad irregular white band just beyond the middle, strongly angulated on the primaries ; these 
wings also with a double submai’ginal series of pale spots ; the inner series with one upon the 
costa, and a second just beyond the angle of the irregular band, white : back of head white, 
antennse dotted with white, abdomen with white margins to the segments. Wings below 
greyer than above, the basal area crossed by parallel transverse whitish streaks ; Ijody white. 
Expanse of wings 1 inch 4 lines. 
Yokohama {Jonas). 
Allied to M. fnrcifascia. 
