( -'-1 ) 



Length of forewing : 6 22 mm. ; ? 26 mm. 



I/a/). Port of Spain, Trinidad, January 1897 (Dr. Rendall) ; Belmont, Port of 

 Spain, Trinidad (E. Lafond) ; Merida, Veneznela (Briceno) ; Rio Solocarae, Bolivia, 

 12110 m., January 19(11, (57 W. Ki' S. ("Simons) ; Caparo, Trinidad, December 19U5 

 (S. M. Klages). ' 



2 cJc?, 3 ? ?. 



12. Melesse drucei spei. nov. 



c?. Nearest to M. peri/n'diKi Rothsch. Pectus and palpi deep crimson ; frons 

 lavender-grey, vertex deep crimson, collar lavender-grey ; tegnlae, bases of patagia 

 and thorax crimson, powdered with orange : patagia laveuder-grey ; abdomen 



crimson, last segment orange brick-red. Forewing greyish purple-brown ; in cell 



a golden spot ringed with scarlet followed by a scarlet dot ; at apex of cell below 

 costa a yellow spot with scarlet ring, and below it a wedge-shaped hyaline patch 

 with scarlet margin ; between cell and inner margin on disc a number of orange- 

 golden patches edged with scarlet; from apex to vein 4 a large golden patch. 



Hindwing hyaline buff, rosy on inner margin. 



¥ . Similar to ? of cl(0.::elja Druce, but the bi-ick-red patches on disc of fore- 

 wing brighter and larger, and instead of a small whitish spot at end of cell it 

 has the same yellow spot and hyaline patch as in the <?, only larger. 



Length of forewing : S 17 mm.; ? 21 mm. 



Hfih. Potaro, British Guiana, May l'.)08 ; Aroewarwa Creek, Maroewym Valley, 

 Surinam, April lOo.j ; Fonte Boa, Amazonas, Sei)tember 19ij6, and Omai, June 1908 

 (S. M. Klages) ; La Union, Rio Hnacamayo, Carabaya, 2000 ft., wet season, 

 November 1904 (G. R. Ockenden). 



17 SS, 1 ?. 



1 '■'>. Melesse hebetis spec. nov. 



c?. Pectus crimson; legs and antennae whitish brown; pal]ii criiuson ; iiead 

 and thorax dull brown-grey, strongly washed and mixed with yellow; abdomen 



dull brick-red. Forewing dull clay-brown, the basal half washed and splashed 



with gallstone-yellow; around hyaline spot at end of cell, a large patch of gallstone- 

 yellow at apex reaching to vein 4. Hindwing hyaline white. 



lyength of foiTwing : 17 mm. 



Hull. IjU I'ninn, itiii llnacamiiyn, ('anilmya. 2iiiiii If., wft season, November 

 1904 ((J. li. (Ickcndi-nj. 



14. Melesse sordida spec. nov. 



(J. Pectus, legs, head, thorax, and antennae dirty clay-colour ; abdomen pale 



crimson, tip whitish. Forewing clay-colour; a subbasal and a cellular dot black; 



a white dot <ui vein 1 one-fourth from base. Hindwing hyaline white, washed 



with rose. 



?. Pectus and basal joint of jialpi jiale crimson; antennae and legs dull 

 brown ; head brown ; thorax brown, slightly mixed with scarlet ; abdomen dull 



crimson. Forewing brown ; between vein 2 and inner margin one-fourth from 



base a scarlet patch with white centre, beyond that two scarlet spots, and above 

 them on vein :i a smaller scarlet spot ; a, white spot on vein (i one-Hfth from apex, 

 Hindwing pale crimson. 



Length of forewing : S I'i mm. : ? 19 mm. 



