EUMELEA. 22 1 



MECOCERAS BITACTARIA. 

 {^Plate CXLV., Fig. 2.) 



Mecoceras bitadaria. Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xxii. 

 p. 607, no. 2 (1861). 



This species is a native of Jamaica. 



" Dull pale cinereous yellow, with a greenish tinge. Head 

 and palpi ferruginous red ; vertex white ; front with two 

 yellow points ; second and third joints with yellow tips. 

 Abdomen with a row of black points. Wings minutely 

 black-speckled, with a middle nebulous incomplete brown 

 band, and with an exterior line of black points ; marginal 

 points ferruginous red, much more attenuated in the fore- 

 wings than in the hind-wings. Fore-wings subfalcate, with 

 a line of black points near the base, and with a black 

 discal dot. Hind-wings dentate, with two white connected 

 red-bordered discal spots; a red apical spot, towards which 

 the points are larger, and more distinctly white-bordered. 

 Length of the body, from eight to ten lines ; of the wings, from 

 twenty to twenty-four lines."— Walker. 



FAMILY PALYAD^. 



Antennae long and slender, rarely pectinated or ciliated. 

 Palpi and proboscis well-developed, the former broad, scaly, 

 and ascending, Abdomen and legs long and slender ; hind 

 tibiae not swollen, and furnished with two pairs of spurs. Wings 

 ample, smooth, entire. 



This is another small Tropical family, represented in botli 

 hemispheres. 



GENUS EUMELEA. 



Eumelea, Duncan, Nat. Libr. Exot. Moths, p. 215 (1841); 

 Guenee, Spec. Gen. Lepid. Uran. et Phal. i. p. 391 (1857); 



