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a strongly waved outer line and a subterminal band of brown speckles; a brown terminal line; a broad 
chalybeous black streak near anal angle. Mt. Sinai, Arabia. The type of this species is lost. 
Subfamily Melicleptriinae. 
The species of the following subfamily, the Melicleptriinae, are distinguished from the Euxoinae by the 
fore tibiae bearing curved claws (obsolete in Adisura), and being in most cases without spines, with which, 
however, the mid and hind tibiae, as in typical Euxoinae, are beset. The eyes are large, without hairs or lashes; 
the frons bears, usually, a rounded prominence, often with a chitinous ridge beneath; in one genus it is simply 
smooth, and in one the prominence is truncate; the scaling is usually smooth, rarely developing into slight 
thoracic or abdominal tufts. The colouring is gayer and the markings more varied, as most, if not all, the 
species fly by day in the hot sunshine, frequenting flowers for the purpose of extracting the honey. The larvae 
also are brighter in tone, feeding exposed on the flowers and seeds of their food plants. Pupation takes 
place in a slight cocoon on or in the ground. In the warmer climates, of which most of the species are 
natives, there are at least two broods in the year; in more northern latitudes the species are single brooded; 
in the palaearctic region the subfamily is not extensive, numbering less than 30 species; in the Tndo-Australian 
there are over 60. 
1. Genus : Cliloridea Westw. 
Like Heliocheil'us Grote , but the forewing of the $ is normal in structure and without hyaline patches; 
the whole insect more strongly built. Larvae brightly coloured, with broad pale longitudinal lines; feeding ex¬ 
posed on the flowers and seeds of various low growing plants; pupating on or under the ground; single-brooded 
in temperate climates; in warmer regions with two or more broods, and sometimes harmful. Type C. vires- 
cens F. from America. 
C. dipsacea L. (Vol. 3, pi. 50 i). Forewing olive ochreous or olive brown; inner and outer lines fine dipsacea. 
dentate, obscure; orbicular stigma annular with a dark centre; reniform large, blackish, with a broad median 
shade below it; a dark band preceding submarginal line; hindwing with base and inner margin diffusely 
blackish; a large black cell blotch and broad marginal border with pale bilobed patch between veins 2 and 4; 
fringe pale. This very widely distributed palaearctic insect is found in the N. W. Himalayas, within the In¬ 
dian boundary, in the form albida Fuchs (Vol. 3, pi. 50 i), the ground colour of both wings being white, as in albida. 
the specimens from Kashmir. The aberrations adaucta Btlr. (Vol. 3, pi. 50 i) and canariensis Warr., are palaearctic 
forms only. Larva green to purple, with yellowish white dorsal and subdorsal streaks; lateral lines broad and 
pale; head green or brown with darker spots; on flowers of various plants; especially Ononis and Linaria. 
C. peltigera Schiff. (= alphea Cram., florentina Esp., charmione Stoll, barbara F., straminea Don.) peltigera. 
(Vol. 3, pi. 50k). Forewing greyish ochreous, flushed with pale brown, except the narrow marginal area; lines 
brown, indistinct; orbicular stigma a dark dot; reniform grey with dark brown edge and centre, joined to a 
brown mark at middle of costa; a brown band between outer and submarginal lines; a black dot below vein 2 
before margin; hindwing with broad brown black marginal border containing a pale blotch between veins 2 
and 4; cellspot dark; fringe white. This species, essentially an inhabitant of warm countries, (being found 
throughout the Mediterranean region and also in S. Africa), occurs at Fao on the Persian Gulf, at Ivutch in 
the extreme West of India, in the N. W. Himalayas, and in Nepal. Larva reddish grey or ochreous, dotted 
with white; dorsal and subdorsal lines dark; spiracular white; on flowers of various low plants. 
C> nubigera H.-Sch. (perigeoides Moore) (Vol. 3, pi. 501). Forewing greyish ochreous; reniform stigma nubigera. 
dark grey, attached to the grey costal median spot; orbicular annular with grey centre; outer line lunulate 
dentate, the teeth whitish, separated by a brown shade from the subterminal line; hindwing pearly white, 
with broad blackish outer border, containing a double whitish blotch between veins 2 and 4; veins and cell- 
spot dark; fringe white. Coterminous with the last species, and perhaps as common, though not so frequently 
recorded; it occurs in the Mediterranean district, in Somaliland, Africa, and in India at Ivutch, whence the type 
of Moore’s perigeoides, and Dalhousie in the N. W. Himalayas. Larva reddish brown with a slight dark dor¬ 
sal line; the subdorsal band alternately black and white; a diffuse brown sublateral band. 
C. assulta Guen. (= temperata Walk., separata Walk., succinea Moore) (Vol. 3, pi. 501). Forewing assulia. 
