MELE3E. 



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B. Antennae of male serrate and fai^ciculatc. 



a. Fore wing with three obliquely plaeed [K)stuiedial white 



points from costa postica. 



b. Fore wing with yellow and crimson spot beyond cell dorothea. 



132o. Melese postica. 



Melese postica, Wlk. ii. 492 (1854) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 247. 



Rtxt'ous brown ; pa][)i above, sides of frons, and basal joint of 

 antennae crimson ; tore coxae crimson ; tarsi whitish ; abdomen 

 crimson, whitish below. Fore wing with traces of subcostal 

 crimson streak ; some crimson at base of inner margin ; a small 



Fig. o8.— Melese postica, (^ . J. 



fuscous spot on vein 1 before middle, a discoidal spot and an 

 obscure band from lower angle of cell to inner margin, all these 

 sometimes with whitish or crimson centres ; three obliquely placed 

 whitish points from costa beyond middle, the middle one often 

 almost obsolete. Hind wing crimson. 



Hab. Amazons, Para, 1 $ type, Ega, 1 J , Villa Nova, 1 J • 

 Kvj). 24-30 millim. 



1326. Melese dorothea. 



Bomhyx dorothea, StoU, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 397. K (1782) ; Kirbv, Cat. Het. 



p. 219. 

 Phahena cruenta, Sepp, Ins. Surinam, ii. pi. 73 (1848) ; Kirby. Cat. Het. 



p. 907. 

 Halisidota binotata, Wlk. vii. 1709 (1855) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 211. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen orange and crimson ; the frons 

 and sides of tcgulye greyish ; legs and ventral surface of abdomen 

 greyish. Fore wing crimson, almost entirely suffused with grey- 

 brown, leaving some crimson at base and on costa ; crimson-edged 

 orange spots below middle of cell, on vein 1 before middle, and 

 beyond discocellulars above vein o. Hind wing pale crimson, deeper 

 on inner area. 



S . Fore wing strongly irrorafed with fuscous, es])ecially oti 

 terminal half ; hind wing white, with some pink towards tornus. 



Hah. Surinam ; Panama, Chiriqui Volcano, 1 $ ; Brazil, 

 Espiritu Santo, Kio Janeiro, 1 J. Kx/i., ^ 38, $ 48 millim. 



Larca. Blackish; tlie sutures of head dull orange; some dull 

 orange marks on df»rsum ; warts blue ; hair black. Food-plant, 

 ? an Asclepiad. 



