82 AMATIDJE. 



298. Pseudapiconoma glagoessa, insert 



Balacra pulchra, Auriv. Ent. Tidskr. xiii. p. 200 (1892), 

 which lias priority. 



299. Balacra elegans. 



Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. pi. xiii. ff. 4, 5. 



2 ■ Head and thorax blue-grey tinged with brown, palpi, sides of 

 frons, basal joint of antenna} above, and back of bead crimson ; 

 pectus except in front, sides of coxae, femora above and tibiae on 

 inner side crimson ; abdomen blue-grey tinged with brown, the 1st 

 two segments with diffused subdorsal orange bands, slight, con- 

 nected dorsally on 2nd segment, the next five segments with sub- 

 dorsal black bands, narrowest at middle, the lateral tufts of hair 

 brown, the ventral surface with crimson subventral patches on 1st 

 six segments and slight marks on anal segment. Fore wing pale 

 red-brown, the inner area and a faint bar across end of cell tinged 

 with blue-grey. Hind wing orange. Underside of fore wing with 

 the basal half of costal area, the cell, and area below it to termen 

 at vein 2 orange, a crimson spot in upper end of cell. 

 Hub. Uganda, Entebbe (Minclun). Exp. 62 millim. 



Subsp. cum'ei, Dyar, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vii. p. 174 (1899). 



Underside of thorax entirely crimson ; femora and basal half of 

 hind tibiae crimson above ; abdomen bluish grey, with segmental 

 black lines, the basal segment with orange hair and the lateral 

 tufts orange, a dorsal series of crimson points. Fore wing with the 

 hyaline patches between veins 2 and G large and diffused nearly to 

 termen. 



Hob. Liberia, Mt. Coffee. 



Genus PARAMELISA. 



Type. 



Paramelisa, Auriv. Ark. f. Zool. iii. 1. p. 13 (1905) lophura. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi porrect, not reaching- beyond the frontal tuft ; 

 antenna; of male somewhat laminate and minutely ciliated ; tibiae with minute 

 terminal pairs of spurs ; abdomen of male with long- spreading- tuft of hair 

 from extremity. Fore wing very long- and narrow, the termen very obliquely 

 curved, the inner margin short ; the tornus with a lobe folded over on under- 

 side and forming the retinaculum ; vein 2 obsolescent, nearly erect from 

 median nervure to termen near tornus ; vein 3 oblique, sinuous ; the disco- 

 cellulars highly angled and the angles of cell produced, vein 5 from just above 

 angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 stalked, 11 from beyond 7. Hind 

 wing aborted, small, triangular, clothed with rough hair, the apical half of 

 costal area folded over and forming a large lobe on underside ; vein 2 from 

 middle of cell ; 3 from angle ; 4 absent ; 5 from above angle ; the subcostal 

 nervure highly arched, vein 6 oblique, 7 absent. 



In key differs from Eressa in the abdomen having a large tuft of hair from 

 extremity ; fore wing with vein 11 from beyond 7. 



