Melanitis Zitenius

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The Great Evening Brown Melanitis zitenius is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in Asia.

The species is crepuscular.Wet-season form. Male and female: Fore wing : costa strongly arched, apex acute; termen immediately below apex in male angulate, in female falcate.

Upperside resembles M. ismene, but ground-colour on the whole somewhat warmer brown, a very broad patch of ochraceous yellow, above and beyond the subapical black spots, larger in the female than in the male.

Underside closely irrorated with dark brown striae ; the ocelli subequal, very much smaller and less clearly defined than in M. ismene.