f 27:^ ) 



?. Similar, Init lirightei', ami tlip lower spot at apex of cell half black and 

 white; the spot on vein 3 black and the subbasal spot black and white. 



Length of forewing : r? 14 mm. : ? 1(3 mm. 



Ilah. Minas (Jeraes (Kennedy) ; La Union, Rio Hnacamayo, Carabaya, 20O0 ft., 

 wet season, November 1904 (G. R. Ockenden) : Aropwarwa Creek, Maroewym 

 Valley, Snrinam, ALirch lOOri fS. M. Klages). 



:! J'r^,4 ? ?. 



!'•». Melesse colunibiana spec nov. 



? . Pectus and palpi crimson ; legs brown-grey ; tarsi white ; head and thorax 



grey-brown ; abdomen rose-crimson. Forewing yellowish grey-brown, a few 



darker shades appearing round cell on costa down to vein 8, a white hyaline streak 

 one-fonrth from apex, a white dot on vein 2 one-fonrth from base; wings excised 

 above and below apex, and cilia at both excisions rose-colonr. Hindwing rose- 

 crimson. 



Length of forewing: IT mm. 



TIab. Santa Fe de Bogoti'i. 



1 ¥. 



2ii. Melesse surdus spec. nov. 



cj. Pectus wiiite ; palpi and legs brownish white; head, thorax, and antennae 



jiale brown ; abdomen dull crimson. Forewing dull claj'-brown. Hindwing 



hyaline whitish, washed with dull rose. 



?. Similar, but forewing brighter brown, with tiny orange dot on vein 1 

 one-third from base. Hindwing hyaline salmon-colonr. 



Length of forewing : S 12 mm. ; ? 16 mm. 



Hab. Fonte Boa, Amazonas, May 1900 and July 19(JT ; Avoewarwa Creek, 

 Maroewym Valley, Surinam, March 190;"), and Tnmatnmari, British (iuiann, 

 December 1907 (S. M. Klages); Paramaribo, July 1S92; S. Javier, Rio Cachabi 

 (Flemming & Miqnetta). 



2 c?c?,9 ? ?. 



21. Melesse albogrisea spec. nov. 



?. Pectus, legs, head, antennae, and thorax wliitish ; abdomen [)ale pink. 



Forewing wliity brown-grey, on costa reaching to vein 8 ; one-fonrth from apex 

 a good-si/.ed hviiline white jiatch. Hindwing dull pale pink. 



Length of forewing : L") mm. 



Hdh. Sapucay, Paraguay, January lntli, 190.") (W. Foster). 



1 ?. 



22. Pachydota drucei spec. nov. 



S. Differs at tirst sight from 1'. xa<liica Druce, with which it has hitherto 

 been mixed up, by the hindwings being dark sooty brown only slightly hyaline, 

 not hyaline bnffy white with brown border, and by the absence of the black 

 margins to the abdominal segments. The abdomen has on the first four segments 

 transverse dorsal black patches, and the sides of the last segment are black, not 

 orange. 



Length of forewing : 28 mm. 



Hnh. New Grenada {fide Felder) ; Jalapa, Mexico, June 1897 (Schans). 



3 (JcJ. (1 ? in British Museum). 



