CALLEEEBIA.— MELANITIS. 105 
Kwei-chow the whole of the secondaries, excepting the abdominal and sub- 
mavginal areas, is deeply suffused with brown, the transverse bands being 
reddish brown. The first male specimen refen-ed to from Wa-ssu-kow has 
an extra ocellus on the under surface placed just above the third median 
nervule. Many exami)les have no trace of an ocellus on tlic under surface of 
secondaries, and such an example is figured by M. Oberthiir. 
Occurs at Chang-yang in Central China, and is generally distributed and 
common in Western China. 
Genus MELANITIS. 
Melanitis, Fabricius, Illiger, Magr. vi. p. 282 (1807). 
Hipio, Hiibuer, Yerz. bek. Schmett. -p. 56 (1816). 
CijUo, Boisd. Voy. Astr., Lep. p. 140 (1832); Westwood, Gen. Diurii. Lcp. p. 360 
(1851). 
" Body small, weak. Wings large ; fore wings eraarginate along the apical margin ; hind wings 
angulated or tailed in the middle of the outer margin. 
" Head moderate sized, hair}-, with a broad short tuft in front. 
" Eyes prominent, naked. 
"Lahial palpi rather short, compressed, broad, obliquely porrected upwards, the tip not reaching to 
the level of the top of the e_ye3 ; thickly clothed with short scaly hairs lying close together ; 
the back of the middle joint with a tuft of thick hairs extending from the middle to 
the tip. 
" Antennte of variable length, slender ; terminated by a gradually formed elongate club, scarcely 
thicker than the rest of the antenna. 
"TnoEix rather short, compressed, elevated in its hinder portion. 
" Fore wings subtriangular. Fore margin strongly arched ; apical angle rounded. Apical margin 
angulated, or rather dilated, a little below the apex, below which the margin is emarginate. 
Inner margin nearly straight. None of the veins dilated at the base. Costal vein extending 
a little beyond the middle of the costa. Postcostal vein with its branches arranged as in 
Debts. Upper discocellular vein very short, oblique, arising near the middle of the wing. 
Middle discocellular vein equally short, more transverse ; outer discocellular long, much 
curved, the curve being towards the base of the wing, the extremity directed outwards and 
uniting with the third branch of the median vein at about the same distance from its base 
as exists between the origin of its first and second branches ; the third branch angulated 
at the place of junction with the outer discocellular, beyond which it is nearly straight. 
" Hiiul wings broadly subovate ; outer angle rounded. Outer margin scalloped, strongly angu- 
lated, or tailed, in the middle, at the extremity of the third branch of the median vein. 
Precostal vein nearly straight. Costal vein extending nearly to the outer angle. Postcostal 
vein branching at a moderate distance from the base (which is rather nearer the body than 
the precostal vein). Upper discocellular vein short, curved ; lower discocellular considerably 
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