178 LTTHOSTAD.E. 



tarsi black; patagia edged with deep crimson; abdomen with 

 dorsal and sublateral series of small black spots. Fore wing 

 orange-yellow; the veins and submedian fold streaked with crim- 

 son ; a short crimson streak at base of inner margin: antemedial 

 line crimson, excurved below costa, very oblique to vein 1, then 

 bent outwards to inner margin, an oblique streak from just beyond 

 it in the cell to lower angle of cell ; postmedial line double, crimson 

 tilled in with grey, bent inwards to costa, then oblique, slightly 

 sinuous and expanding at inner margin, a sbort oblique streak 

 from it above vein 2 ; some crimson on costa towards apex ; a 

 waved crimson subterminal line from costa to above vein 2, where 

 it is bent inwards as a short streak; the veins of terminal area 

 defined by blackish. Hind wing crimson. 



Hah. Fr. Guiana, St. Jean Maroni, type + 6 in U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 E.rp. IS niillim. 



*1315rt. Melese costimacula. 



Melese costimacida, Joicey, A. M.N. H. (8) xviii. p. 57, pi. 14. f. 8 (191G). 



5 . Head with the frons crimson with grey band above, the vertex 

 of bead orange; antenna? brown with the basal joint crimson; 

 palpi crimson; tegula? and patagia red-brown tinged with grey 

 and with orange patches edged with crimson at middle of tegula? 

 and base of patagia ; thorax orange ; pectus and legs crimson, the 

 fore tibia? at base and the mid and hind tibia- grey-brown, the tarsi 

 white ; abdomen crimson with some greyish at base of sides. Fore 

 wing red-brown suffused with purple-grey; a crimson streak below 

 costa, defining the edges of an oblique conical orange-yellow post- 

 medial patch from costa to vein 5; crimson basal and subbasal 

 points in the cell and a slight crimson and yellow mark above base 

 of inner margin ; slight antemedial crimson points on the veins, 

 oblique to median nervtrre ; a yellow spot with crimson annulus in 

 upper part of cell towards extremity; a few crimson scales at 

 middle of submedian fold and a slight yellow and crimson barfrom 

 mIu 1 to inner margin ; an orange-yellow terminal band from 

 costa to vein 3 defined on inner side by a waved crimson line. 

 Hind wing semihyaline white tinged with crimson. Underside of 

 fore wing crimson with the yellow on costa and termen as above, 

 the apical area irrorated with whitish ; hind wing with the costal 

 area tinged with yellowish. 



Ihil,. Colombia, Choko, La Selva San Juan,typef V hi Coll. 

 Joicey. Exp. 46 millim. 



1316 a. Melese monima. (Plate X bV II. tig. 13 tf , 14 $ .) 

 Mi lese monima, Schaus, A. M. X. II. (8) vi. p. 202 (1910). 



d. Head and thorax orange-yellow mixed with red-brown and 

 scarlet; palpi crimson; frons with fuscous bar; antenna' black; 

 teguke at base and outer edge of patagia fuscous; legs crimson 



