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SOME BEAUTIFUL NEW BOMBYCIDS FROM THE WEST 



AND NORTHWEST. 



BV B. NEUMOEGEN, NEW YORK. 



Melia, n. gen. 



Head small, sunk in prothorax, hairy. Front narrow and hairy. 

 Antennae plumose. Palpi minimal. I'horax stout and very pilose. 

 Abdomen stout, tapering off. 



Primaries oblong, half as broad as long, well rounded at angle. Costa 

 straight, apex rounded. Four submedian nervules, vein 5 apparently 

 issuing out of cross vein. Three subcostal nervules, two of them forking 

 off near apex. Secondaries nearly as broad as long, well rounded at 

 apex. Anal angle well pronounced, like in the Notodontidae. Median 

 cell weakly connected by cross vein, looking like an open cell on a super- 

 ficial glance. Three median veins, the fourth being replaced by a small 

 groove or fold, which runs through entire wing from base to anteiior 

 margin, thus equally dividing it. Subcostal vein bifid near apex. Two 

 submedian veins. 



Legs well developed and extremely pilose, with tibial spines of good 

 size, but covered by the hair. Tarsus, tarsical segments and claws 

 prominent. 



The genus is of sombre colour, and a near relative to the European 

 genus Ptilophora, Stph., the antennas and legs showing it. It has to be 

 placed in our lists after the genus Gluphisia, B. Some of the latter genus 

 likewise show indications of a horizontal fold in the secondaries, as, for 

 instance, G. rupta, Hy. Edw. 



Melia danbyi, n. sp. 



Head, collar and thorax dark gray, powdered with minimal grains of 

 yellow, of which latter tint are the rims of the prothorax and patagiae. 

 Eyes black. Antennae gray with miminal yellow granules at base of stem. 

 Abdomen dark gray with thin blackish segmentary lines. 



Primaries dark gray, powdered with infinitesimal granules of lighter 

 gray, and tufty at base. Costa dark gray, tipped with blackish colour near 

 apex. Nerves black. A number of transverse undulating lines from 

 costa to inner margin, of brownish black, the t. a. and t. p. lines being 

 more visible than the rest. The t. a. line especially so, with whitish 



