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medial brownish band expanding into a fascia on medial part of 

 inner margin. Hind wing whitish suffused with scarlet, especially 

 mi marginal areas; cilia pale yellow. Underside of fore wing 

 scarlet with a grey-brown fascia on costa from near base to near 

 apex expanding into a patch in upper angle of cell ; hind wing 

 whitish faintly tinged with scarlet, more strongly mi inner area. 



Hah. Imi.iIi i\\\. St. Laurent Maroni, type f d hi Coll. Dognin. 

 Exp. 32 millira. 



*1319 c. Melese rubricata. (Plate X LVJ I. fig. 1 5. ) 



Melese rubricata, Dogn. Het. Nouv. Am. Sud, i. p. 9 (1910). 



2 ■ Head and thorax scarlet faintlv tinged with brown, the 

 antenna' browner; tibiae tinged with brown, the mid and hind tarsi 

 brownish grey ; abdomen scarlet. Fore wing scarlet faintly tinged 

 with brown, especially towards costa ; minute obliquely placed 

 antemedial dark spots above and below submedian fold; a greyish 

 spot defined by black in end of cell, strongly constricted at middle ; 

 a round blackish postmedial spot above vein (5, elongate greyish 

 spots defined by blackish above veins 5, 4, 3, and a blackish point 

 above vein 2 below end of cell; cilia dark brown, scarlet and 

 whitish at tips. Hind wing scarlet, the cilia whitish at tips. 



Sab. Pk. (iuiAVA, St. Laurent Maroni (Le Moult), typef 5 

 in Coll. Dognin. Exp. 24 millim. 



*1319f/. Melese aprepia. 



Melese aprepia, Dogn. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. Hi. p. 155 (1908). 

 Melese inconspicua, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 49, pi. 7. f. 28 (1909). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous tinged with red-brown ; 

 pectus. coxa3, and ventral surface of abdomen whitish. Fore wing 

 ochreous irrorated with red-brown ; a faint subbasal band of 

 blackish suffusion from cell to vein 1: an annulate antemedial 

 spot defined by blaek seal.- below the cell, a similar spot in end of 

 cell bisected by a blackish streak, a similar elongate oblique mark 

 below end of cell and large lunulate mark beyond the cell with 

 elongate elliptical marks beyond it in the interspaces between 

 veins 8 and 3, all defined by diffused black scales ; a terminal series 

 of small black >pots; cilia rufous. Hind wing pale yellow. 



Sab. Fb. G-tjtana, St. Jean and St. Laurent Maroni, typef c?, $ 

 in Coll. Dognin; Brazil, Up. Amazons, Fonte Boa {Kldges), 

 typef <~ T inconspicua in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 20-26 millim. 



*1319 e. Melese clagesi. 



Melese klagesi, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 19. pi. 7. f. 11 (1909). 



2 . Head and thorax pale grey-brown, the patagia with oblique 

 dark brown streak, the metathorax with dark brown patch ; palpi 

 crimson at sides and black behind ; pectus and fore coxa? crimson ; 



