MELITMA. 
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12. — M. Deione, H.-G. 937-40; Dup. i. p. 276, pi. 44, 1, 2. 
Expands from 1‘50 to 1’75 in. Wings orange-fulvous, the 
nervures distinctly marked ; bases of all the wings black ; hind 
margins narrowly black ; marginal fringes black and pale yellow. 
Fore wings with three narrow black bands running across from the 
costa to the inner margin ; near the base are also several narrow 
black lines. Hind wings marked in a similar manner to the fore 
wings, having three narrow wavy black bands and some basal lines. 
Under side : Fore wings fulvous, with some semilunar spots near 
the apex ; pale yellow, narrowly edged with black ; three or four 
black spots in the centre of the wings near the costa, and one large 
one near the inner margin ; in the discoidal cell are several black 
lines. Hind wings pale fulvous, with two broad straw-coloured 
bands, the central one having a row of very faint black spots ; along 
its centre there are four or five large straw-coloured spots, narrowly 
edged with black near the base. PI. XLV., 2. 
Time or Appeaeance. — June. 
Habitat. — ^The South of France and Andalusia. 
Lakva. — Undescribed. 
13. — M. Athalia, Eott. Naturf. vi. p. 5 (1775) ; Esp. 47, 1, a, b, 
I. p. 377 ; 0. I. 1, 44; Err. B. 49. 
Matuena, Hiib. 17, 18. 
Leucippe, Schn. Syst. B. p. 209, a, b ; Bkh. ii. 197. 
Expands from 1-50 to 1-75 in. All the wings deep brownish 
fulvous, with black markings arranged as in the last species, but 
much broader, the whole insect having a darker appearance. 
Under side : Fore wings pale fulvous, a row of black spots running 
across the wing near its centre, several black lines and spots 
internal to this ; near the apex and along the greater part of the 
costa is a patch of straw-coloured spots. Hind wings with the 
light bands very broad, the central one often nearly white, without 
spots. PI. XLV., 3. 
Times of Appearance, — May to the end of August. 
Habitat. — Woods and meadows near woods throughout 
Europe ; Asia Minor, in the mountainous parts of Armenia, and 
Siberia. Local in Britain. (“ Heath Fritillary.”) 
