74 ARCTIAD^. 



1318. Melese endopyra, n, sp. (Plate XXXVII. fig. 15.) 



Head and thorax reddish brown ; palpi above, sides of frons, and 

 back of head crimson ; teguloe and j)atagia slightly edged with 

 crimson ; coxa:; and femora above crimson ; metathorax with 

 ci'imsou patch ; abdomen crimson above, whitish below. Fore 

 wing red-brown ; yellow and scarlet streak on base of inner margin 

 expanding into a patch with a yellow spot on it before middle ; a 

 medial bar from submedian fold to inner margin ; a blackish spot 

 in middle of cell and another with slight red centre below base of 

 vein 2 ; obliquely-placed small dark-edged hyaline spots beyond 

 tte cell above and lielow vein 6. Hind wing yeUow tinged with 

 pink, especially in female. 



Hah. lioLiviA, Chaco {Oarlep'p),! 5 type, c? in Coll. Staudinger. 

 Exp. 40 millim. 



1319. Melese chozeba. 



Neritos chozeba, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 90, pi. 9. f. 22 (1884) ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 198. 



S . Head and thorax orange tinged with crimson and chestnut ; 

 tips of antennae and tarsi white ; pectus and abdomen crimson, the 

 latter orange towards extremity. Fore wing crimson suffused with 

 chestnut, and with some confluent orange-yellow spots on basal area 

 below the cell ; traces of a postmedial hyaline point above vein 5. 

 Hind wing yellowish white, the inner area very slightly tinged 

 with crimson and brown. 



Hah. Costa PacA, Irazu {Rogers), 1 (S type, Godman-Salvin CoU.; 

 Bkazil, Sta. Catherina, Rio Graude do Sul. Exp. 42 millim. 



Subsp. 1. Head, thorax, abdomen, and markings of fore sving deep 

 bright crimson ; the hyaline spot above vein 5 well developed ; hind 

 wing pale yellow. 



Hah. Colombia {Pratt), in Coll. Druce. 



Sect. II. {Melese). Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from cell ; the scale-like gland 

 small. 



A. Autennffi of male bipectinate, with short branches. 



a. Fore wing with crimson markings ; bind wing tinged 

 with crimson. 



a^. Vertex of bead brown asana. 



b^. Vertex of head yellow and crimson. 



cr. Fore wing ot female without prominent yellow 



postmedial patch on costa flavimaculata. 



b~. Fore wing of female with yellow postmedial patch 



on costa laodamia. 



C-. Fore wing of female with crimson annuli on yellow 



spots ocellata. 



h. Fore wing without crimson markings ; bind wing brown, babosa. 



1320. Melese asana. 



Neritos asana. Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 90, pi. 9. f. 21 (1884) ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 198. 



(S . Head and thorax grey-brown ; antennae white at tips : palpi, 



