ISO LITHOSIADJE 



1317 a. Melese flavipuncta. 



Melese flavipuncta, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 49, pi. 7. ff. 13, 14 (1909). 



Head and thorax pale greyish brown ; palpi crimson, white in 

 front at base and brown at tips; antennae white at tips: pectus 

 and less white, the fore coxae and femora crimson, the fore and 

 mid tibiae brown ; abdomen crimson, the ventral surface white. 



Fore wins pale red-brown ; a subbasal black point below the cell ; 

 a small antemedial yellowish spot edged with some crimson on 

 vein 1 ; a faint fuscous -hade across end .if cell and bar beyond the 

 cell: the costal edge towards apex and cilia to vein 2 crimson. 



Eind wing bright rosy crimson ; the underside white tinged with 

 crimson. 



Sab. Tbiotdad, Caparo I Klages), type f 8 in Coll. Rothschild; 



SriMXAM. Paramaribo, Maroewym Valley, Aroewarwar Creek ; 



Beazil, 1 2 , Up. Amazons, Fonte Boa, Sta. Catherina ; Ecuador. 



R. Cachabi, S. .Javier. Quevedo ; Peru. Carabaya, If. Huaeamayo, 



La Union; Bolivia. Baenavista. Exp., 6 30, 2 38 millim. 



1319. Melese chozeba, insert : — 



si cliozeba intensa. Ruths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 30. pi. 13. ff. 39,40 

 (1910), 



for subsp. 1. 



*1319a. Melese underwoodi. (Plate LXV. fig. 10.) 



Elyiiug undencoodi, Both?. Nov. Zool. xxiv. p. 481 (1917). 



2 . Head, thorax, and abb .men brick-red, the antenna' and tarsi 

 whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing brick-red thickly irrorated 

 with pal" greyish brown; slight scarlet streaks just below costa 

 and «>n subcostal nervure to end of cell. Hind wing white tinged 

 with crimson, especially on costal area. Underside of fore wing 

 pale scarlet. 



II ah. Costa Rica, Carri Blanco (Uiulevwooil), type f 2 in 

 Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 50 millim. 



*1319/;. Melese erythrastis. 



Melese erythrastis, Dogn. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. li. p. 227 (1907); Roths. 

 Nov. Zool.xvii.pl. 13. f. 11. 



<3 . Head and thorax reddish brown tinged with grey; palpi 

 let at sidrs, whitish in front, and brown at tips; frons with 

 scarlet points at sides; antennae with some scarlet at base; tegulae 

 slightly edged with scarlet ; pectus and legs white, the Eore coxa' 

 sides ami femora above scarlet, the tibiae tinged with brown 

 above; abdomen scarlet, the anal tuft brown above, the ventral 

 surface white. bore wing scarlet, the costal area to beyond 

 middle, the cell and area just beyond and below it suffused with 

 brown with a slight scarlet streak below costa; a slight diffused 



