MKLESE. 75 



basal joint of antennae, a ring round neck, and the edges of tegulae 

 and patagia crimson ; legs striped with crimson, the tarsi white ; 



abdomen crimson. Fore 

 wing grey-brown, with slight 

 crimson streak below costa 

 and black point in cell ; ante- 

 medial and medial series of 

 three small crimson-edged 

 spots centred with yellow 



Fig. m.—Melesc asava, S- \- ^^}^^ *^^ ^^^^' *^® ^^^ ^^^^^^ 



with the centre of the spot 

 on vein 1 whitish ; two conjoined black-edged hyaline postmedial 

 points below costa connected with a yellow mark on costa. Hind 

 wing yellowish, more or less suffused with crimson. 



$ . Fore wing with the point in cell and series of spots below it 

 crimson except the white-edged spot; the postmedial points replaced 

 by a yellow patch with its lower extremity running out to a point ; 

 cilia yellow from apex to vein 3. Hind wing crimson. 



Ab. 1. Larger, 38 millim. ; fore wing with larger yellow patches 

 above inner margin. — Petropolis, Eio Janeiro. 



Hah. Mexico, Tabasco {H. H. Smith), 2 J ; Panama {Champion), 

 1^,1$ type, Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Colombia, St. Martha {Bon- 

 card), 1 S : Amazon, Ega {Bates), 1 $ , Petropolis, Rio Janeiro 

 {Doer\ 3 6 . Exp., 6 26, $ 32 millim. 



*1321. Melese flavimaculata. (Plate XXXVII. lig. 18.) 



Melese flavimaculata, Dognin, Ann. See. Ent. Beige, xliii. p. 327 (1899). 



$ . Crimson ; head and thorax mixed with orange ; a fuscous 

 bar across upper part of frons. Fore wing largely suffused with 

 dark brown ; a crimson-edged yellow spot at base, an antemedial 

 spot below cell, a spot in middle of cell, another above base of vein 

 2, and an obscure spot below vein 2 ; a wedge-shaped spot below 

 costa beyond middle, with a quadrate spot below its extremity above 

 vein 5 ; irregular crimson and yellow spots on termen from apex, 

 where there is a wedge-shaped spot, to vein 3 where there is a 

 larger spot. 



Hah. Ecuador {C. de Lahonnefou), type t $ in Coll. Dognin. 

 Ex2^. 40 millim. 



1322. Melese laodamia. 



Neritos laodamia, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 90, pi. 9. f. 20 (1884), 



c? ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 198. 

 Neritos cutheans, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xviii. p. 40 (1896), $ . 



S . Head and thorax orange and crimson ; a bar above frons, 

 antennae, tegulae in front, edges of patagia, and a patch on meso- 

 thorax grey-brown ; legs crimson and brown, the tarsi white ; 



