108 NYMPHALID^. 
almost truncate) at apex, and the hind wing is caudate. The female is somewhat paler, and 
the ferruginous markings are rather more diffused." {Marshall ^- de NiceviUe, Butt. Ind. 
i. pp. 256, 257.) 
I have specimens from Omei-slian, Wa-shan, and Chia-kou-ho in Western 
China, and also from the Loochoo Islands which are referable to the above 
form. 
M. de NiceviUe has bred both ismene and leda from a batch of ova deposited 
by M. leda. He says the eggs were laid in August, and that he " bred, on 
September 6th, a female M. leda ; on the 7th another female ; on the 8th 
two female M. ismene, one with distinct ocelli, and therefore an intergrade 
between M. leda and M. ismene, though nearer the latter ; on September 9th 
one male and two females of M. ismene ; on September 10th three males and 
four females of M. ismene, several of which are intergrades, and one male 
M. leda ; on September 11th two males and one female (the latter a highly- 
oceUated specimen) of M. ismene; and on September 12th one male of 
M. ismene : the total result being that from nineteen pupae bred from eggs 
laid by true M. leda I obtained three specimens {1 6 , 2 ? ) like the mother, 
and sixteen specimens (7 c? , 9 $ ) of J/, ismene, several of which, though 
transitional forms, were yet aU nearer to M. ismene than to M. leda (J. A. S. B. 
1886, p. 237)." 
The late Mr. H. Pryer says that M. leda is very rare in Japan. He appears 
to have seen only two specimens ; these were flying among cultivated hemp 
on the borders of Tosa and lyo in Shikoku, and with some difficulty he 
managed to secure one of them. Mr. Maries records the species from Nikko. 
It occurs in Japan in the months of July and August. Var. ismene, which is 
also a scarce insect in Japan, occm's in October according to Mr. Pryer, who, 
referring to it, says : — " I saw only two specimens in Yamato, both of which 
I captured. They were flying round the bole of a Cryptomeria growing on 
the mountain-pass leading up to Odaisau." 
Melanitis aswa. "• 
Cyllo aswa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1865, p. 769. 
Cyllo tristis, Felder, Keise Novara, Lep. iii. p. 464 (1867). 
Melanitis suyudana, Moore, Horsfield & Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C. i. p. 224 (1857). 
Melanitis aswa, Marshall & de NiceviUe, Butt. Ind. i. p. 253 (1882). 
Melanitis aswa, var. tristis, Marshall & de NiceviUe, /. c. pi. xii. fig. 27, S • 
" Male. Upperside uniform dark brown, without spots or other markings. Underside brown. 
