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Genus MELAMERA, nov. 



Type, M. velutina. 



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

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frona smooth ; eyes 

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

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

 paired ci-ests, the melathorax with depressed crest; tibife slightly fringed with 

 hair; abdomen with dorsal crests on 1st four segments, the crest on 2ud 

 segment large. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen slightly ex- 

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

 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 

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

 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



5503. Melamera velutina, n. sp. 



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

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

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

 with broad black-brown band ; fore tibiae 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 

 at middle and before the discocellulars ; some black-brown suffusion 

 at base of inner area ; slight subbasal and antemedial white striaj 

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



Fig. 94. — Melamera velutina, c^ . I. 



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 

 side by brown, obliquely excurved and slightly incurved below sub- 

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

 some 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 incurved, 

 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 line. 



Hah. Colombia, Sta. Marta {Bouchard), 2 d type, Minca {H. H. 

 Smith), 1 ? . E.vp. 22 millim. 



