SATYRIN.E. 
Ill 
Genus MELANITIS. 
Melanitis, rabricius, " Illiger's Mag., vi. p. 282 (1807) Butler, Cat. Sat. 
Brit. Mils., p. I (1868). 
Hipio, Hiibner, Yerz. Bek. Schmett., p. 56 (181 6). 
j Cijllo, Boisduval, "Voy. Astrolabe, Lep., p. 140 (1832)," and Faune Ent. 
I de Madag., &c., p. 57 (1833); Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep., ii. p. 
t 360 (185 1 ) ; Trimen, Rliop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 186 (1866). 
j Gnophodes, Westw., Gen. Diurn. Lep., ii. p. 363 (185 1) ; Trinien, Rhop. 
I Afr. Aust., ii. p. 189 (1866). 
Imago. — Head small, clothed with short dense hair ; eyes very pro- 
minent, smooth ; palpi short, compressed, ascendant, densely clothed 
with long scales, the terminal joint short, moderately acute ; antemm 
I rather short, slender, only very slightly and gradually thickened ternii- 
I nally. Thorax moderately robust, elevated dorsally ; covered with short 
down on breast, but hairy on back, especially posteriorly. Wings 
\ large and broad, more or less angulated. Fore-winrjs produced api- 
i cally, usually angulated at extremity of second discoidal nervule, 
beneath which hind-margin is excavated (being moderately dentate 
generally) ; costa strongly arched ; inner margin nearly straight (convex 
in ^ of some species) ; first and second subcostal nervules originating 
before extremity of discoidal cell, — the subcostal nervure and all its 
branches situated very close to costa ; discoidal cell long and broad ; 
upper and middle disco-cellular nervules both very short (so that the 
two radial nervules arise very near each other), but lower one very long, 
with an inward curve in its upper part ; in ^ of some species a large 
oval tuft of long hairs, directed outwardly, lying between first median 
nervule and submedian nervure, near base. Hind-ivings produced 
inferiorly, more or less prominently angulated at extremity of third 
median nervule, and with a smaller projection at extremity of first 
median nervule ; hind-margin moderately dentate generally ; anal angle 
prominent; costa prominent at base, but thence only slightly arched 
or nearly straight ; costal nervure extending almost to apex ; discoidal 
cell narrow, rather short, — the lower disco-cellular nervule considerably 
longer than the upper, slightly bent just below origin of radial nervule, 
and meeting third median nervule at acute angle ; inner margin pro- 
duced to form a wide channel in its basal half, so as to cover almost all 
the under surface of the abdomen, but excavated inferiorly. Fore-legs 
of ^ very small, rather thinly clothed with short rough hair on tibia 
and short tarsus ; those of ^ considerably larger, not hairy but scaly, 
with the tarsus as long as the tibia, and indistinctly articulated. 
Middle and hind legs moderately thick, smooth and scaly ; tibia) with 
a few thin spines inferiorly, the terminal spurs very short ; tarsi with 
a few very short spines beneath. 
Larva. — Elongate, thickened about middle. Head large, surmounted 
by a pair of straight spinulose horns. Last segment bearing a pair 
of long, slightly divergent, bristly spikes, directed posteriorly. 
