Melanitis libya, the violet-eyed evening brown, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.

It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, southern Sudan, Semuliki National Park, western Uganda[2] and north-western Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Shaba), Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, and eastern Zimbabwe.

[3] The habitat consists of forests at altitudes between 600 and 900 meters.

Adults are on wing year round.

The larvae possibly feed on Oxytenanthra abyssinica.