72 AEOriAD^. 



1314. Cissura plnmtea, n. sp. (Plate XXXVI. fig. 2.) 



Cissura decora, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 399 (nee Wlk.). 



2 . Head and thorax leaden grey ; 1st joint of palpi, part of 

 2nd, upper edge of patagia, pectus, coxae, and abdomen crimson. 

 Fore wing leaden grey ; a crimson subcostal fascia from base to 

 apex, where it joins a costal fascia arising beyond middle ; a fascia 

 from base to termeu below apex, the crimson on costa being 

 continued round the apex to meet it. Hind wing fuscous grey, the 

 area below the cell paler. 



Hah. Br. Honduras, Belize, 1 $ type. Exp. 42 millim. 



Genus MELESE. 



Type. 



Melese, Wlk. ii. 491 (1854) postica. 



Malabus, Wlk. iii. 716 (1855) ineertus. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, reaching or not reaching vertex 

 of head, the 3rd joint minute ; antennae of male minutely serrate and fasciculate, 

 or bipectinate with short branches ; tibiae with the spurs moderate ; thorax and 

 abdomen clothed with rough hair. Fore wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of 

 cell; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell; male with an 

 elliptical scale-like leaden-grey glandular patch below base of cell ; the termen 

 turned over on underside Irom apex to vein 3 so as to make it appear straight. 

 Hind wing with vein 2 from well before angle of cell ; 3, 4 stalked or from cell ; 

 5 from well above angle ; 6, 7 coincident ; 8 shortly stalked with 7, rarely 

 obsolete. 



Sect. I. (Malahus). Hind wing with veins 3,4 stalked. Antennae of male 

 minutely serrate and fasciculate, 



A. Fore wing with irregular crimson-edged orange markings 



in and below cell. 



a. Female with large yellow irregular postmedial patch on 



costa and conjoined crimson-edged yellow spots on 



termen amastris. 



b. Female with postmedial white lunule below costa and no 



spots on termen russata. 



B. Fore wing brown with crimson subcostal streak ; a spot below 



cell on vein 1. 



a. Fore wing without yellow and scarlet spots on inner 



margin, the female with antemedial yellow spot incerta. 



b. Fore wing with yellow and scarlet antemedial and medial 



spots on inner margin endopyra. 



C. Fore wing almost uniform crimson suffused with chestnut, 



the basal area below cell yellowish chozeba. 



1315. Melese amastris. 



Neritos amastris, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 90, pi. 9. f. 23, (^ 

 (1884); id. Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 367, pi. 73. f. 26, $; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 198. 



S. Head and thorax orange mixed with scarlet; antennae 

 brownish, the tips and tarsi white ; abdomen crimson. Pore wing 

 crimson, thickly irrorated with brow n ; the basal half with irregular 

 scarlet-edged orange spots, one below cell before middle, two in cell 

 conjoined to one below its middle, with another below it on vein 1 ; 



