322 Mr. A. G. Butler on the 



If the type of Melipotis should be considered generically 

 distinct from the bulk of the species on account of the fan- 

 shaped brush of hairs on the middle legs of the male, most of 

 the other species would have to be referred to Oerespa, of 

 which this is the type ; 1 believe, however, that the apparent 

 absence of the brush in most males is simply due to the fact 

 of its being concealed in its sheath, for one male of M. fame- 

 lica in our series shows a few isolated hairs, and a male of 

 M. fasciolaris shows a brush on one side only. 



Melipotis guhernata. 



Bolina guhernata. Walker, Lep. Het. xiii. p. 1163. n. 36 (1852). 

 Bolina decreta, Walker, Lep. Het. xiii. p. 1164. n. 39 (1852). 



Pard and Honduras. Type in B. M. 



Closely allied to M. prulata^ but with the basal half of the 

 secondaries above and the basal two thirds of the primaries 

 below white ; the white postdiscoidal spot on the under 

 surface of the latter wings is also larger. 



Melipotis fasciolaris. 



S . ^dia fasciolaris, Hiibner, Exot. Schmett. Zutr. figs. 443, 444. 



5 . Bolina limitaris, Ciuen^e, Noct. iii. p. 70. n. 1413 (1852). 

 BoHna cunearis, Guenee, I. c. n. 1414 (1852). 

 Bolina fuscar is, Guenee, I. c. n. 1415 (1852). 



J. Bolina illuminans, Walker, Lep. Het. xiii. p. 1164. n. 38 (1857). 



United States, Veragua, Trinidad, Honduras, Venezuela, 

 St. Domingo, Eio Jurua, Tapajos, Sao Paulo, Lake Iguarazu. 

 In B. M. ' 



The male varies very little, but the female considerably. 

 B. cunearis^ Guen., iii spite of the almost entire obliteration 

 of the postdiscoidal spot on the upper surface of the primaries, 

 is most like the male in colouring, and B. fiiscaris is least 

 like ; the latter, however, appears to be the commonest form 

 of the female. Guen^e's " male " of B. cuyiearis is probably 

 a female. When the frenulum is not examined it is natural 

 to suppose a smaller and more slender-bodied female to be a 

 male. 



Melipotis jucunda. 



Melipotis Jucunda, Hiibner, Exot. Schmett. Zutr. figs. 181, 182. 



United States. In B. M. 



Like the preceding species M. jucunda varies more in the 

 female than in the male sex. 



