188 AECTIAD^. 



Genus HOLOMELINA. ^ 



Tjppe. 



Euhaphc, Hiibn. Zutr, ex. Schmett. ii. p. 9 (1827), non descr. ; 



Wlk. ii. 523 (1854) aurantiaca.. 



Crocota, Hiibn. Zutr. ex. Schmett. ii. p. 28 (1827), non descr. ; 



Wlk. ii. 535 (1854) aurantiaca, 



Holomelina, Herr.-ScbafF. Aussereur. Schmett. p. 15 (1850) ... aurantiaca. 



Cathocida, Wlk. xxxii. 499 (1865) opella. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi porrect, downcurved, extending more than length^ 

 of head ; frons with tuft of hair ; antennse of male ciliated ; tibiae with the 

 spurs short. Fore wing with vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 4, 5 from 

 angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 10 stalked, 9 absent, 7 from bejond 10 ; 11 

 from cell. Hind wing with vein 4 absent ; 5 from above angle ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 

 from before middle of cell. 



A. Hind wing crimson. 



a. Fore wing with white fasciae on costa and in discal and 



submedian folds , polyphron.. 



h. Fore wing without white fasciae. 



a^. Hind wing with the inner area crimson. 



a^. Vertex of head crimson cocciniceps. 



h'^. Vertex of head brown. 



a^. Underside of fore wing crimson to beyond 



middle semirosea 



b^. Underside of fore wing not crimson Iceta. 



h^. Hind wing with the inner area black. 



a-. Underside of fore wing with the terminal area not 

 black. 



a^. Palpi crimson at base ostenta, 



P. Palpi black at base pomponia. 



h'^. Underside of fore wing with the terminal area black, mirina, 



B. Hind wing scarlet or tinged with scarlet, rarely wholly 



blackish. 

 a. Head and underside of thorax and abdomen black. 



a^. Hind wing with complete terminal black band metazonaia. 



h^. Hind wing with large black patch at tornus rogersi.. 



h. Head and underside of thorax and abdomen brown and 

 scarlet. 

 a^. Hind wing with the inner area not suffused with black. 



a^. Fore wing orange aurantiaca. 



b'^. Fore wing fuscous grey or brown with scarlet costal 

 edge. 

 a"*. Hind wing without broad black terminal band ... costata. 



b^. Hind wing with broad black terminal band intermedia, 



b^. Hind wing with the inner area sulFused with black ... opella. 

 c. Head and thorax ferruginous brown without any scarlet. 



a^. Antennae whitish pallicornis. 



b^. Antennae fulvous. 



ff^. Fore wing with white streak at base below cell heros. 



b'^. Fore wing with white spots disparilis. 



C. Hind wing ochreous; fore wing with white fascia below 



base of cell lata. 



D. Hind wing orange or partly orange. 



a. Fore wing with white fascia below base of cell and spot 



below its extremity fero7iia. 



b. Fore wing without white fascia below the cell. 



«\ Fore wiug with triangular orange patch on base of 

 costa. 

 a'"^. Fore wing with the orange patch produced along 



costa to beyond middle pamphylia. 



