PA L )'.! DyE. 439 



toraosed to middle of tlie first, third from end of cell, trifid, sixtli also from tlie cud ; 

 discocellular bent in the middle, concave at each end, radial from the angle ; middle 

 median close to end, lower at one half : hindwing triangular, apex convex, exterior 

 margin very oblique, anal angle prominent; cell two-fifths the length; two sub- 

 costals at one-fifth beyond end of the cell ; discocellular undulated, radial from the 

 middle ; the middle median close to end of cell, lower fully one-half. Cilia short. 

 Body long, slender; palpi slightly ascending, rather broad and compressed, clothed 

 •with short lax hairs above and beneath, third joint short, linear in male, slender in 

 female; antennas very long and slender, smooth in both sexes; legs long, very 

 slender, tarsi very long, fore tibife with a small tuFt, hind tilji* of inilo finoly pilos3 

 beneath, spurs very long and slender. 

 Type, E. rosalia. 



EUMELEA LTJDOVICATA (Plate 198, Fig. 1, \n, $ 3 ). 



Eumeha Ludovkata, Gueuee, Phal. i. p. 393 (IS.")?); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxii. p. 610 



(1861). 

 Eumelea rosalia, Westwooil, Duncan'.^ Nat. Libr. E.Kot. :M()tlis, p. 215, pi. 29, f. 4 {luc. Cramer). 



Golden yellow. Wings in male numerously covered with purple-red short 

 transverse strigje, which are thickest and form more or less confluent blotches on 

 the basal and medial areas ; a more prominent purple-red discal fascia, the veins 

 crossing which are lined with purplish-black ; sometimes there is also a less defined 

 similar medial fascia ; the costa of forewing also with short purple-black strigas ; 

 marginal line dark purple-red, cilia paler. Female with the strigte more uniformly 

 disposed and narrower throughout ; the forewing with the discal, medial, and a less 

 apparent antemedial fascia. Collar, a line on the vertex, front of head, palpi above, 

 speckles on femora and tibice above, and on abdomen, and antennjB above 

 purple-red. 



Expanse 2 to 2f inches. 



ETJMELEA VULPERARIA (Plate 198, Fig. 2, S). 



Phal. Geometra vulperaria, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. p. 21-5, pi. 400, f. O. P. (1782). 

 Ametris vulperaria, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 303. 



Eumelea vulperaria, Gucnee, Plial. i. p. 393; Walker, Catal Lep. llet. B. M. xxii. p. 611. 

 Phalaena gravidata, Fabricius, Eut. Sjst. iii. 2, p. \7o (1794). 



Male and female. Olivaceous-ochreons. Wings with numerous uniformlv 

 disposed slender short transverse purple-red strigte : forewing crossed by three more 

 or less distinct purple-red narrow bands, and hindwing with a simiLir narrow medial 

 band and a broader submarginal strigose fascia ; the extreme apex of hindwing 



