106 IST^MPHALID.E. 
longer, nearly straight, oblique ; uniting with the third branch of the median vein at a short 
distance beyond its origin, closing the disooidal cell in an acute point. 
" Foi-e legs very minute, clothed with short hairs, not forming a brush. The tibia nearly equal 
in length to the femur. Tarsus about two thirds of the length of the tibia. Fore legs of 
the female rather longer, scaly. The femur clothed with short hairs beneath. Tibia and 
tarsus of nearly equal thickness throughout ; the latter obliquely truncate at the tip, with 
a few minute spines visible at or near the tip beneath, indicating the articulations. 
" Fotir hind legs of moderate length, slender, scaly. Tibia) with a very few very slender spines 
beneath. Tibial spurs small. Tarsus with the articulations very distinct, armed beneath 
and at the tips with rather long fine spines. Ungues curved, acute, armed beneath near 
the tip with a distinct acute tooth, nearly equal in size to the apical tooth of the claw. 
" Abdomen small, or but moderately robust." ( Westwood, I. c.) 
Melanitis leda. (Plate XIII. figs. 2 $ , 5 j , var. ismene.) 
Papilio leda, LinnseuSj Syst. Nat. i. pt. ii. p. 773 (1767). 
Melanitis leda, Pabricius, 111. Mag. ^i. p. 282 (1807) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 15, pi. x. 
figs. 1, 16 (male), 1 a (female) (1880) ; Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 41, pi. iv. fig. 10 
(1882); Marshall & de Nieeville, Butt, lud. i. p. 252 (1882); Pryer, Rhop. Nihoiiica, 
p. 30, pi. viii. fig. 8. 
Hipparchia leda, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E. T. C. pi. viii. figs. 9 (larva), 9 a (pupa) ; 9 i-9 h 
(structure o£ imago) (1829). 
Cyllo leda, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) xix. p. 51 (1867) ; Hewitsou, Journ. 
Linn. Soc. Lond., Zool. viii. p. 144 (1864). 
Melanitis leda et ismene, de Niceville, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Beng. 1886, p. 237, pi. xii. 
fig. 4, larva. 
Papilio ismene, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. xxvi. figs. A, B (1775). 
Melanitis ismene, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 14, pi. x. figs. 2, 2 a (male), 2 6 (larva and pupa) 
(1880) ; Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 42, pi. iv. figs. 9& 12 (male), 11 (female) (1882) ; 
Marshall & de Niceville, Butt. Ind. i. p. 256, pi. xii. fig. 28, S ; Pryer, Rhop. 
Nihonica, p. 30, pi. viii. fig. 7. 
" Male and female. Upperside uniform, somewhat pale brown. Fore wing with two rounded black 
spots, the lower the larger, confluent and placed midway between the end of the cell and the 
outer margin, one on either side of the third median nervule. The lower spot is centred with 
pure white ; the upper one has a somewhat larger white spot on its outer margin. The black 
spots are very obscurely more or less surrounded with ferruginous, and there is a very diffused 
black patch between the upper one and the costa, and another similar patch internal to it, 
extending into the end of the cell, these two patches being divided by a very obscure ferru- 
ginous bar. Hind wing with a series of submargiual ocelli varying in number and distinctness 
coincident with the ocelli on the underside, black with white pupils and ochreous irides. 
Underside much paler, uniformly striated throughout with darker brown. Fore wing with 
from three to five submarginal ocelli, the one between the upper median nervules always the 
largest and further removed from the margin. Hind wing with six more or less distinct ocelli, the 
