76 ARCTIAD^. 



abdomen crimson, orange at extremity. Fore wing yellow ; some 

 crimson and grey-brown suffusion on basal and costal areas to 

 beyond middle, then running obliquely to termen at vein 2 or 3 and 

 leaving a yellow spot in end of cell and a large ill-defined patch on 

 medial inner area ; a triangular crimson and grey-bro'wn patch on 

 costa beyond middle sometimes connected with the oblique outline 

 of basal area. Hind wiug white. 



$ . Fore wing with the ground-colour crimson suffused with 

 grey-brown, leaving some crimson marks at base, an orange and 

 crimson spot in middle of cell, and six or seven spots on medial area 

 below the cell ; a postmedial yellow spot on costa, its lower extremity 

 produced towards tornus ; the termen yellow from apex to vein 3 ; 

 hind wing tinged with pale crimson. 



Hah. Mexico, Orizaba ; Panama, Chiriqui, type t in Coll. Staud- 

 inger ; Colombia, type t $ cutheans in Coll. Druce ; Venezuela, 

 Aroa, 1 (^ , 2 $ ; Trinidad. Exp., S 38, $ 52 millim. 



1323. Melese ocellata, u. sp. (Plate XXXVII. fig. 2.) 



5 . Head yellow and crimson ; thorax brown, with crimson 

 patches on patagia ; legs yellow and brown ; abdomen yellow, 

 dorsally tinged with crimson. Fore wing brown, with large elliptical 

 yellow spots with crimson anuuli on them ; a subbasal spot ; an 

 oblique antemedial series of three spots, the two below the cell 

 conjoined ; a small spot in end of cell ; a postmedial series of con- 

 joined spots angled outwards to near termen at vein 5, then oblique 

 to above middle of inuer margin ; an irregular apical spot. Hind 

 wing yellow, strongly tinged with crimson. 



Hah. Brazil, Minas Geraes, 1 5 type. Exp. 34 millim. 



1324. Melese babosa. (Plate XXXVII. fig. 23.) 

 Neritos hahosa, Dognin, Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige, xxxviii. p. 681 (1894). 



2 . Head and thorax pale brown ; palpi above and basal joint of 

 antennae pink ; legs brown and Avhite, the coxae pink ; abdomen 

 pink with brown lateral stripes, the ventral surface white. Fore 

 wing pale brown, thickly irrorated with darker brown ; two fuscous 

 discoidal points ; an irregular postmedial hj-aline yellow patch 

 below costa, with projections from its upper and lower sides ; slight 

 yellow points on costa towards apex and on termen below apex. 

 Hind wing brown, with pale yellowish spot beyond upper angle of 

 ceD, 



Hind wing with vein 8 obsolete. 



Hah. Brazil, Castro Parana, 1 $ , Sao Paulo ; Ecuador, Loja, 

 type t 5 in Coll. Dognin. Exp. 34 millim. 



