MEUESE Is:; 



*1320a. Melese columbiana. (Plate XLVII. fig. Hi.) 



Mrlisr ml 11 iiiliin mi , Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. ]i. 273 (1909). 



5. Head and thorax rufous with a greyish tinge; palpi crim- 

 son, brown in front except towards hasp ; antenna' brown, the 

 basal joint crimson at sides; pectus, coxa*, and femora above 

 crimson, the tibiae grey-brown, the tarsi whitish; abdomen 

 crimson. Fore wing red-brown slightly tinged with darker brown ; 

 a small antemedial while spot defined by blackish above vein 1 ; a 

 faint small dark spot in the cell towards extremity and slight 

 discoidal lunule ; a slight postmedial white bar from costa to vein (! 

 and small spot below vein (> ; the costal edge crimson towards apex 

 and the termen crimson with the cilia white from below apex to 

 vein 8. Mind wing crimson. 



Hah. Colombia, Bogota, type t $ in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 

 32 millim. 



1320 b. Melese punctata. ( Plate XLVII. fig. 17. ) 



Melese punctata Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 272 (1909). 

 Melese sixola, Schaus, A. M. N.H. (8) vi. p. 402 (1910). 

 Melese sixola f rater, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vi. p. 403 (1910). 



cS . Head and thorax pale grey-brown mixed with crimson ; 

 palpi and frons crimson ; antenna? brown, whitish at tips ; pectus 

 and legs crimson, the tibia? tinged with brown, the tarsi whitish ; 

 abdomen crimson, ventrally whitish. Fore wing pale brown ; a 

 slight crimson streak below costa ; a small blackish spot in middle 

 of cell ; a yellowish white antemedial spot edged with crimson on 

 inner area, then obliquely placed yellowish white spots edged with 

 crimson between lower angle of cell and inner margin and a similar 

 double spot beyond upper angle above and below vein 6. Hind 

 wing crimson. 



Ab. 1. /rater. Fore wing with single postmedial spot below 

 vein 6 and the spot between bases of veins 3, 2 absent. 



Hab. Costa Rica, Sixola R. (Schaus), 1 S ; Colombia, Choko 

 Prov., Condoto (Spurrell), 1 d ; Ecuador, Bulim, typef 6 in 

 Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 24 millim. 



*1320 c. Melese nebulosa. 



Melese nebulosa, Joicey, A.M. N.H. (8) xviii. p. 58, pi. 14. f. 11 (191(5). 



5 • Head and thorax crimson and yellow ; antenna? grey-brown 

 except basal joint ; palpi crimson ; patagia with grey-brown stripe : 

 legs grey-brown with some crimson at base, the tarsi white, the 

 fore tarsi at base and extremities and the mid tarsi at base brown ; 

 abdomen crimson. Fore wing grey-brown mottled with pale 

 crimson except on basal area, costal area to beyond middle, and 

 terminal area ; a subhasal crimson point in the cell and orange 

 stripe edged with crimson above on base of inner margin ; an ante- 

 medial crimson and orange spot below the cell conjoined to a spot 



