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Section II. (Melissohlapfes).—'FoTewmg of male with the cell 

 normtil ; vein 3 from near angle ; 4-5 shortly stalked or from a point 

 in hoth sexes. 



4144c. Melissoblaptes odontella, Hmpsn., Eom. Mem., viii, 

 ined., pi. 54,/. 18. 



^. Head and thorax grey-brown ; abdomen brownish. Forewing 

 pale brown irro rated with black scales ; the basal half of inner area 

 whitish, extending into the cell beyond the antemedial lines, which is 

 fine dark and very strongly dentate, especially below the cell ; a large 

 irreo-ular brown stigma in end of cell, dentate on outer side ; the 

 postmedial line fine, dark and regularly dentate ; a series of black 

 streaks on the veins of outer area, ending in points. Hindwing fuscous- 

 brown, slightly darker towards outer margin. 



Habitat. —Ceylon. Exp. 1 8 mm. 



P. 5. Genus Mucialla, insert Tirathaba, Wlk., Cat., xxx 

 p, 961 (1864), which has precedence ; and Harpagoneura, Butl., 

 A. M. N. H. (5), XV, p. 242 (1885). 



4145. Tirathaba rufivena, insert (sj'-n.) Melissoblaptes rufovenalis, 

 Snell., Tijd. v. Ent, 1880, p. 243, and 1883, pi. 5, fig. 10. 



4145a. Tirathaba grandinotella, Rag., Rom. Mem., viii, ined., 



pi. 45, f. 17. 



$. Head and thorax purplish-red ; a small tuft of white scales over- 

 lapping base of forewing ; abdomen brownish. Forewing dark purpHsh- 

 red ; a small annulus in base of cell, a larger one at middle, and a 

 discocellular annulus with black margins and purple-red centres ; the 

 outer margin red, with some dark suffusion inside it at costa ; some white 

 points on costa towards apex and a marginal series. Hindwing fuscous. 

 9 . AVith a patch of grey scales in the cell between the annuli, a diffused 

 patch of yellowish- grey scales round the discocellular annulus, and a 

 series of quadrate grey marks just inside the margin. Hindwing pale 

 yellowish, the apical half fuscous, 



//a^/<af.— Khasis; Amboyna. E.vp. 28-38 nmi. 



Section II {IJarpagoneura).— 'Forewing of male with the lower angle 

 of cell produced to near outer margin and upwards almost to hxel of 

 upper angle, the discocellulars extremely oblique, veins 3, 4, 5 widely 

 separated, short and parallel ; the cell clothed below with fine silky hair, 

 the glandular swelling at base of costa very large. In the typical 

 species complexa from the Pacific there is also a small glandular swelling 

 belcw veins 6, 7, 8, and the margin of the wing is atrophied. 



