MKLESE. 



75 



basal joint of antennae, a ring round neck, and the edges of tegulse 

 and patagia crimson ; legs striped with crimson, the tarsi white ; 



abdomen crimson. Pore 

 wing grey-brown, with slight 

 crimson streak below costa 

 and black point in cell; ante- 

 medial and medial series of 

 three small crimson-edged 

 spots centred with yellow 



Fig. m.—Mciese amm, S- ]■ ^^^^^ ^^® *^^^^' ^^® ^^^ ^^^^^^ 



with the centre of the spot 



on vein 1 whitish ; two conjoined black-edged hyaline postmedial 



points below costa connected with a yellow mark on costa. Hind 



wing yellowish, more or less suflused with crimson. 



$ . Fore wing with the point in cell and series of spots below it 

 crimson except the white-edged spot; the postmedial points replaced 

 by a yellow patch with its lower extremity running out to a point ; 

 cilia yellow from apex to vein 3. Hind w ing crimson. 



Ab. 1. Larger, 38 millim. ; fore wing with larger yellow patclies 

 above inner margin. — Petropolis, Rio Janeiro. 



Uah. Mexico, Tabasco {H. II. 8iintli),2 J ; Panama {Champion), 

 1 d J 1 $ type, Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Colombia, St. Martha {Bou- 

 card), 1 S : Amazon, Ega (Bates), 1 5 , Petropolis, Kio Janeiro 

 (Doer), 3 d . Exj)., 6 26, $ 32 miUim. ' 



*1321. Melese flavimaculata. (Plate XXXVII. fig. 18.) 

 Melese flavimaeidata, Dognin, Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige, xliii. p. 327 (1899). 



5 . Crimson ; head and thorax mixed with orange ; a fuscous 

 bar across upper part of frons. Fore wing largely suflused with 

 dark brown ; a crimson-edged yellow spot at base, an antemedial 

 spot below cell, a spot in middle of cell, another above base of vein 

 2, and an obscure spot below vein 2 ; a wedge-shaped spot below 

 costa beyond middle, with a quadrate spot below its extremity above 

 vein 5 ; irregular crimson and yellow spots on termen from apex, 

 where there is a wedge-shaped spot, to vein 3 where there is a 

 larger spot. 



Ilah. EcuADOK (C. de Lahonnefov), type t J in Coll. Dognin. 

 Exp. 40 millim. 



1322. Melese laodamia. 



Neritos laodamia, Druce, Biol. Ceiitr.-Ain.. Ikl. i. p. IK), pi. 9. f. 20 (1884), 



S ; Kirby. Cut. ITet. p. 198. 

 Neritos cnthans, Druce, A.M.N. H. (G) xviii. ].. -tU (1896). 9- 



cf . Head and thorax orange and crimson: a liar above Irons, 

 antenna?, tegula; in front, edges of patagia. and a patch on meso- 

 thorax grey-brown; legs crimson and brown, the tarsi white; 



