MELESE. 77 



B, Antennae of male serrate and fasciculate. 



a. Fore wing with three obliquely placed postmedial white 



points from costa postica. 



h. Fore wing with yellow and crimson spot beyond cell dorothea. 



1325. Melese postica. 



Melese postica, Wlk. ii. 492 (1854) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 247- 



Eufous brown ; palpi above, sides of frons, and basal joint of 

 antennae crimson ; fore coxae crimson ; tarsi whitish ; abdomen 

 crimson, whitish below. Fore wing with traces of subcostal 

 crimson streak ; some crimson at base of inner margin ; a small 



^ig.b^.— Melese 2X)stica, c?. }. 



fuscous spot on vein 1 before middle, a discoidal spot and an 

 obscure band from lower angle of cell to inner margin, all these 

 sometimes with whitish or crimson centres ; three obliquely placed 

 whitish points from costa beyond middle, the middle one often 

 almost obsolete. Hind wing crimson. 



Hah. Amazons, Pani, 1 $ type, Ega, 1 J , Villa Nova, 1 d" • 

 Exp. 24-30 millim. 



1326. Melese dorothea. 



Bomhyx dorothea, StoU, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 397. K (1782) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 219. 

 FhaliBiia cruenta, Sepp, Ins. Surinam, ii. pi. 73 (1848) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 907. 

 Halisidota binotata, Wlk. vii. 1709 (1855) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 211. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen orange and crimson ; the frons 

 and sides of tegulae greyish ; legs and ventral surface of abdomen 

 greyish. Fore wing crimson, almost entirely suffused with grey- 

 brown, leaving some crimson at base and on costa ; crimson-edged 

 orange spots below middle of cell, on vein 1 before middle, and 

 beyond discocellulars above vein 5. Hind wing pale crimson, deej^er 

 on inner area. 



S . Fore wing strongly irrorated with fuscous, especially on 

 terminal half ; hind wing white, with some pink towards tornus. 



Hah. Surinam ; Panama, Chiriqui Volcano, 1 $ ; Brazil, 

 Espiritu Santo, Kio Janeiro, 1 ^ . Exp., ^ 38, $ 48 millim. 



Larva. Blackish ; the sutures of head dull orange ; some dull 

 orange marks on dorsum ; warts blue ; hair black. Food-plant, 

 ? an Asclepiad. 



