UELAMERA. 327 



Genua MELAMEEA, dov. 



Type, M. velutina. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 s of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes 

 large, round; antennas of male minutely ciliated; thorax clothed almost 

 entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, the mesothorax wilh al 

 paired crests, the metathorax with depressed crest; tibia? slightly fringed with 

 hair; abdomen with dorsal crests on 1st four segments, on '2nd 



nt large. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen slightrj 

 curved at middle and excised towards tornus, hardly crenulate; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 'd from ln anastomosing with B to 

 form the areole; I 1 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 

 "a almost fully developed from above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 

 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



5503. Melaniera velutina, n. sp. 



Head and thorax bluish grey mixed with black-brown ; palpi 

 Mack, white at base, at extremity of 2nd joint and at base and 

 extremity of 3rd joint ; vertex of head with black bar ; tegulae 

 with broad black-brown baud ; fore tibiie and the tarsi black-brown 

 ringed with white ; abdomen reddish brown mixed with grey, the 

 crests black-brown. Fore wing pale rufous with a large rather 

 quadrate black-brown patch on inner medial area defined by whitish 

 and extending into the cell where its upper edge is slightly angled 

 ■ it middle and before the discocellulars ; some black-brown suffusion 

 at base of inner area: slight subbasal and antemedial white striae 

 from costa defined on each side by blackish ; a medial black striga 



Fig. 94. — Melamera velutina, $ . 



from costa; a black discoidal point defined below by a minute 

 Y shaped whitish mark indenting the black area ; postmedial line 

 with slight white mark at costa, then pale slightly defined on outer 

 Bide by brown, obliquely excurved and slightly incurved below bud- 

 median fold, a black-brown patch beyond it on costal area with 

 Borne white points on costa; subterminal line whitish defined on 

 inner side by brown, faintly except towards costa, excurved below 

 vein 7. excurved and minutely waved at middle, then incur 

 a small subapical black-brown spot beyond it ; a fine minutely 

 waved terminal black line slightly defined on inner side by whitish; 

 cilia whitish at apex. Hind wing dark cupreous brown; the 

 underside greyish suffused with brown, a blackish discoidal spot, 

 indistinct sinuous postmedial line, and waved black terminal lino. 



Hub. Colombia., Sta. Maria (BoucTiard), 2 rj type, fifinca (//. // 

 Smith), 1 £. Exp. 22 millim. 



