MELAGKAUMA. 



691 



Genus MELAGRAMMA, nov. 



Type, M. expatita. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of 

 head and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd long ; frons smooth ; 

 eyes large, round ; antennce of male serrate with fasciculate cilia and long 

 bristles ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales and without crests ; build slender ; 

 tibiiB moderately fringed with hair; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with 

 the apex somewhat prodnced and acute, the termen evenly curved and not 

 crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from just below upper 

 angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind 

 wing with veins 3, 4 fi-om angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle. 



3589. Melagramma expetita. 



Bryophila, expetita, Wlk. xv. 1647 (1858). 



S . Head and thorax white irrorated with black ; sides of palpi, 

 except 3rd joint, and of frons black ; patagia black at base ; fore 

 and mid tibiae with black marks, the fore tarsi black ; abdomen 

 ochreous. Fore wing white irrorated with black and dark brown, 

 especially on postmedial costal area and terminal area towards 

 apex ; subbasal line black, acutely angled outwards in cell and 



Fig. 183.— Melagramma expetita, S ■ 



ending in submedian fold,; antemedial line oblique from costa to 

 median nervure, incurved in submedian interspace and oblique to 

 inner margin ; a black point in middle of cell and curved discoidal 

 bar ; an oblique black striga from middle of costa ; postmedial line 

 arising from vein 7, excurved to vein 4:, then bent inwards to below 

 end of cell and sinuous to inner margin ; postmedial area with some 

 small white spots on costa ; a diffused oblique fuscous fascia from 

 apex to just beyond postmedial line and thence as a slightly 

 excurved band to vein 3 on inner side of the faint whitish sub- 

 terminal line ; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing 

 ochreous, the terminal area tinged and irrorated with fuscous except 

 towards tornus ; . the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with fuscous. 



. Hah. Brazil, Rio Janeiro ; Argentina, Gran Chaco, Florenzia 

 {Wagner)., 1 J. Exj). 30 millim. 



