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THE MOTTLED BEAUTY. 
Melanippe Hastata. 
PLATE XXVIII. Fig. 3. 
Phal. Geom. Hastata, Linn. ; Don. iv. PI. 129. — Phal. Hastata, 
Haworth The Mottled Beauty, a Moth, Wilkes . — Argent 
and Sable, Harris' Aurel. PI. 1 S. — Xerene Hastata, Trdtsehke, 
Stcph. 
Bears considerable affinity to the preceding genus ; 
but the anterior wings, instead of being much 
rounded off at the tip, are but slightly so and 
almost come to an obtuse point. Tlie proboscis is 
rather long, the antennas slender, simple in both 
sexes, and the palpi short, slender, and acute, the 
terminal joint small and pointed. Tlie species above 
named differs slightly from the species with which 
it has usually been associated, and forms the type of 
Duponchel’s genus Melanippe. It measures from an 
inch to nearly an inch and a half across the wings ; 
the ground colour white, with a broad irregular 
black band round the hinder margin of all the 
wings, continuous externally, but spotted and inter- 
rupted on the inner side : across the middle of the 
tipper wings is another black band very irregular, 
being nearly ditdded in the middle, and interrupted 
