414 AECTIAD^. 



Sect. II. Antenna of male ciliated. 



A. Fore wino; with the gi-ouiirl-colour scarlet mnguinea. 



B. Fore wing with the ground-colour yellow id. 



879. Melanaema sanguinea, n. sp. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen bright scarlet ; frons, vertex of 



head, tegulse, patagia, meso- 

 and metathorax with black 

 spots. Fore wing scarlet 

 suffused with fuscous black, 

 the ground-colour appearing 

 as streaks on the veins of 

 basal area; an aatemedial 

 'Fig.32Q.—Mela7i(smasangumea,(^. {. band bent inwards at costa 



and constricted in cell ; more 

 or less prominent traces of a posLmedial band, and slight streaks on 

 the veins of terminal area. Hind wing bright scarlet, with more 

 or less prominent fuscous suffusion in terminal interspaces; the cilia 

 black from apex to towards tornus. 



5 duller scarlet ; head, thorax, and fore wing irrorated with 

 fuscous ; fore wing with the costa and cilia black ; antemedial, 

 medial, and postmeiial fuscous lines, the two former slightly 

 sinuous, the last retracted to costa ; some obscure subterminal 

 patches. 



Hub. N. GuWEA, Kapaur (Doherty), 1 5 , Fergusson I. (Meel-), 



2 d, type. Exj?., 6 24, $ 28 millim. 



*880. Melanaema ni. (Plate XXIX. fig. 15.) 



Lyclene ni. Heyl. C, R. Soc. Ent. Beige, xxxv. p. 415 (1891) ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 914. 



$ . Yellow ; sboulders and patagia with black points. Fore 

 wing with subbasal black spot ; the costal edge black towards 

 base, with slight crimson streak below it ; a crimson fascia below 

 the cell to the oblique antemedial line, which is fuscous edged with 

 crimson, and giving oflF an oblique line in cell to join the postmedial 

 line above inner margin ; a discoidal point conjoined to the post- 

 medial line, where it is bent outwards below costa, tlien oblique, 

 minutely waved and edged with crimson ; a subtermiual series of 

 fuscous spots on crimson ])atches, the spots on veins 6 and 4 

 nearer the termen. Hind wing pale yellow. 



Hah. Java, Biiitenzorg, type t § in Coll. Heylaerts. Exp. 

 20 millim. 



Genus XANTHETIS, nov. 



Type, X. luzonica. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, not reaching vertex of head ; 

 antenna; of male minutely serrate and ciliated ; tibite with the spurs moderate. 

 I'ore wing with the apex rounded ; vein 2 from beyond middle of cell, oblique ; 



3 from before angle ; 5 from just above angle; 6 from below upper angle; 7, 



