MELESE. 



ISO 



*1326 c. Melese hebetis. 

 Melese hebetis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 271 (1909), & xviii. pi. 5. f. 39. 



c? . Head and thorax yellow faintly tinged with scarlet; palpi 

 scarlet; frons brownish; antenna' brown with the basal joint 

 scarlet; brownish streaks on outer edge of patagia and dorsum of 

 thorax; pectus yellow, scarlet in Bront ; coxae scarlet; legs grey, 

 the femora scarlet above, tarsi whitish : abdomen pale crimson, the 

 extremity brownish, the ventral surface yellowish. Fore wine,- red- 

 brown with indistinct pale striae ; the base of inner margin yellow ; 

 a yellow spot on the brandandan ill-defined medial patch from cell to 

 inner margin : a round white spot faintly defined by scarlet below 

 have of vein 6 ; the costal edge tinged with scarlet towards apex; 

 a terminal yellow hand with minutely dentate inner edge from apex 

 to below vein 1. Hind wing semihyaline white; the underside 

 with the costal area faintly tinged with scarlet to end of cell. 



Rah. Pehtj, R. Huacamayo, La Union (Ockenden), type t 6 in 

 Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 36 millim. 



1320 J. Melese hampsoni. 

 Melese hampsoni, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 272 1 1909), & xviii. pi. 5. f. 42. 



Antennae of male ciliated. 



J. Head and thorax grey tinged with brown; palpi with the 

 2nd joint crimson behind; tegulae crimson below; patagia with 

 some black-brown hair at extremity; metathorax with crimson 

 patch; pectus and base of legs pale crimson, tibiae and tarsi brown, 

 the latter with whitish band at base ; abdomen crimson, the anal 

 tuft and ventral surface yellow. Voyl- wing brownish grey, the 



Fig-. 72. - Meles • hamps mi, '. ]-. 



terminal area with dark brown irroration ; a patch of yellow thickly 

 irrorated with deep red on inner margin from near base to beyond 

 middle, expanding at middle up to origin of vein 2, with a small 

 comma-shaped white mark edged with deep red on its upper ed°-e 

 before middle, a red point edged with black- brown above it below 

 the cell; a blackish point in middle of cell and a postmedial point 

 below vein'G. Hind wing pale crimson, the veins deeper crimson, 

 the cell whitish ; the underside greyish slightly tinged with crimson. 

 Rab. Br. Gtiaxa, Potaro, type Ys 'in Coll. Rothschild \ 

 V\i. (iri.vxA, Xouveau Chantier {Le Jloi/It), in Coll. Dognin, 

 St. Laurent Maroni, 2 J; Surinam ; Brazil. Amazons. Ponte 

 Boa : Pert. Yahuarmayo, 1 ' . lExp. 20 millim. 



