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LITHOSIAD.S. 



legs black-brown, the tarsi white except at ti]» ; abdomen crimson, 

 the ventral surface white. Fore wing pale grey-brown irrorated 

 with black-brown ; two antemedial black points below the cell and 

 a white point on vein 1 ; a rather figure-of-eight shaped mark out- 

 lined in black in end of cell, a slight discoidal lunule and point 

 above base of vein 2; a hyaline fascia beyond the cell between 

 veins 6 and 5 conjoined to a spot above vein (5 near its inner 

 extremity and a spot below vein 5 near its outer extremity, all 

 outlined in black ; the terminal half of costa with whitish points; 

 cilia dark brown with whitish points. Hind wing dark brown. 



Hah. Surinam, Maroewym Valley, Aroewarwar Creek (Khu/rs), 

 typef 2 bi Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 28 millim. 



*1319 /'. Melese peruviana. 



Melese pei uviana, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 48, pi. 7. ff. 7, 8 (1909). 



Antenna? of male ciliated. 



6 • Head and thorax crimson and yellow with patches of grey- 

 brown on frons, teguhe, patagia, and prothorax; pectus and legs 

 crimson, the tibiae streaked with grey-brown, the tarsi whitish ; 

 abdomen crimson. Fore wing grey-brown ; a small crimson spot at 

 base and subbasal spots in the cell and below vein 1 ; a slight crim- 

 son streak below medial part of costa ; a small yellow antemedial 

 spot defined by crimson in cell, a larger spot below the cell and 

 short crimson streak above inner margin ; an oblique medial series of 



Fig. 71. — Melese peruviana, <J . A. 



yellow spots defined by crimson in and below the cell and on vein 1 ; 

 three similar spots between lower angle of cell and inner margin 

 and a small crimson discoidal spot ; a" hyaline yellow conical post- 

 medial patch defined by crimson from costa to below vein 5, its 

 edges waved; a terminal yellow band defined by crimson and with 

 wav.d inner edge from vein 7 to 3. Hind wing semihyaline white, 

 the inner area tinged with crimson ; the underside with the costa 

 .-lightly tinged with crimson. 



2. Fore wing with the' terminal hand narrower, more maculate 

 and extending to apex ; hind wing wholly tinged with crimson. 



Hab. Peru, Carabaya, S. Domingo (Oc/ce/iden), tvpe t d" 2 

 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp., S 38, 2 44 millim. 



