MELESE. L87 



above; abdomen pink, the anal tuft and ventral surface white. 

 Fore wing uniform pale nitons, the cilia pink al base, yellow at 

 tips. Mind wing white faintly tinged with rufous towards termen, 

 the inner margin tinged with pink towards tornus ; cilia white. 



Hn/>. Fr. Ciiana. St. Laurent Maroni, typet 6 in Coll. 

 Dognin. Exp. 20 millim. 



*\'-V2~)h. Melese flavescens. 

 Melese jlavescens, Joicey, P. Z. S. 1917, p. 268, pi. 1. i'. 11 (1018). 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow mixed with pale red- 

 brown, the last with some whitish at sides at base ; leys grey-brown, 

 the tarsi white except at base. Fore wing pale red-brown striated 

 with yellow ; some yellow' at base of inner margin, below the cell 

 before middle and towards extremity, and a spot beyond end of 

 cell ; cilia yellowish white at tips from apex to above vein 3. Hind 

 wing white, the inner area suffused with yellow. Underside white 

 tinged with yellow, the gland on fore wing brown. 



Hah. Argentina, Missiones {Wagner'), typef 6 in Coll. Joicey. 

 Exp. 38 millim. 



*1325t. Melese innocua. (Plate XLVII. fig. 24.) 



Melese innocua. Dogn. Het. Nov. Am. Sud, ii. p. 14 (1911). 



cS • Head, thorax, and abdomen pale crimson, the teguhe at sides 

 and patagia brownish ; palpi deep crimson, the 2nd joint brown in 

 front ; antenna? brown, whitish towards tips ; femora at extremities 

 and tibiae brown, the tarsi whitish. Fore wing reddish brown 

 mixed with greyish ; antemedial and medial 3 ellow patches from 

 submedian fold to inner margin defined by crimson and with crimson 

 streak on vein 1, the former with white spot on it above vein 1 with 

 black point before it ; a small blackish spot in middle of cell and 

 crimson spot below its extremity ; a rather triangular white post- 

 medial spot below vein 2, slightly edged with crimson and with two 

 crimson points above it below the costa. Hind wing pale crimson. 

 Underside of fore wing pale crimson with the costa dark brown. 



Hah. Colombia, San Antonio (Fassl), type t J in Coll. Dognin. 

 Exp. 30 millim. 



1326 will stand as Melese binotata. 

 1320 a. Melese dorothea. 



Bombyx dorothea, Stoll, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 397. f. K. (1782). 

 Phalsena leucostigma, Sepp, Surin. Vlind. pi. 112 (1852). 



Antenna' of male ciliated ; fore wing with elliptical fuscous 

 scale-like gland with tuft of white hair below it ; hind wing with 

 veins 7, 8 from anirle of cell. 



