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with some fuscous mixed, the Ursi and hind tibiae brown and 

 whitish; abdomen crimson, the extremity yellow. Pore wino- 

 crimson suffused and irrorated with fuscous, a subbasal yellowish 

 spot below the cell and an antemedial patch constricted at middle 

 and defined by crimson; a crimson discoidal point and oblique 

 series of small yellow spots defined by crimson from lower angle of 

 eell to inner margin ; a small white postrnedial spot in discal fold. 

 Hind wing white' faintly tinged with crimson; the underside with 

 the eostal area yellowish tinged with crimson. 



§ ._ Fore wing with pale yellow postmedial spot above vein G 

 eonjoined to an elongate elliptical white spit below vein G, cilia 

 crimson and yellow on apical half. Hind wing pale crimson. 



Hah. Costa Rica, Juan Vinas (Schaus), 2 6, 2 2; Peru, 

 S. Domingo (Ockenden),! 6. Exp., 6 42, ? 50 millim. 



*131G b. Melese signata. 



Melese signata, Joicey, A. M. N. H. (8) xviii. p. 58, pi. 14. f. 9 r ? 10 9 

 (191G). T 



2 . Head scarlet, the frons and antennae except basal joint grey- 

 brown ; thorax grey-brown with the edges of tegulae and patches at 

 base of patagia and on metathorax scarlet'; pectus and abdomen 

 crimson ; legs grey-brown, the femora at base and above crimson, the 

 tore tibiae with crimson streak, the tarsi white except at extremities. 

 Pore wing red-brown tinged with grey; a, crimson streak on costa, 

 becoming subcostal towards base; a crimson point near base of 

 median nervure, traces of a waved crimson antemedial line with 

 slight crimson marks beyond it in submedian fold and on vein 1 ; 

 a faint crimson tinge in the cell and some crimson scales on disco- 

 cellulars ; medial crimson spotsabove and below vein I ; an oblique 

 lunulate pale yellow postmedial mark from costa to vein 5 edged 

 with crimson and black and tinged with scarlet at costa ; the cilia 

 crimson at base and orange at tips from apex to vein 3. Hind 

 wing pile crimson, the interspaces of discal area semihvaline 

 whitish. Underside of fore wing crimson, the costa grey-brown 

 except at base, the area beyond the cell to vein 5 and at termen to 

 vein 3 suffused with grey-brown, the lunulate patch white edged 

 with crimson. 



6. Pore wing with the crimson patches on basal half more 

 developed, the lunulate postmedial mark reduced to a small spot 

 above vein G. 



Rab. Peru, \\. Tabaconas (Pratt), typefc?, 2 in Coll. Joicey 

 Exp., 6 44, 9 .10 millim. 



1317. Melese incerta, insert (syn.) : — 

 Melese surdus, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. :>73 (1909). 

 Br. Guiana, Tumatumari (Klages), type t £ in Coll. Rothschild. 



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