808 CATALOGUE OF 



1. Maecipa INSCRIPTA. 



Mas. Fusca, subtus albida ; antennce albidce, ramis nigris ; abdo- 

 men fusco albidoque pilosum ; alee anticce albido-fuscce, litu- 

 ris nonnullis obscurioribus albido marginatis, fasciaque lata 

 angulata guttas duas nigro-fusca includente, subtus cance 

 fusco conspersa ; posticm cinerea, subtus cano albida? antice 

 fusco conspersa?. 



Male. Brown ; under side whitish. Antennae whitish, with 

 black branches. Abdomen with brown and whitish hairs. Fore 

 wings whitish brown, with several darker brown whitish-bordered 

 marks, four along the costa ; first aixl second small, third attenuated, 

 oblique, inclined towards the fourth, which is subapical and sub- 

 quadrate ; two blackish brown dots in front of the middle, one of 

 them half surrounded by a curved blackish brown streak, and both 

 included in a broad nearly rectangular brown band, which occupies 

 much of the disk of the wing ; under side hoary, whitish and 

 speckled with brown in front ; a black tuft on the inner border. 

 Hind wings gray ; under side hoary, whitish, with brown speckles 

 in front. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 11^ lines. 



a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Bev. D. F. Morgan. 



Genus 20. MELIA. 



Mas. Corpus gracile. Proboscis brevissima. Palpi breves, 

 decumbentes, breviusculi ; articulus 3us minimus. Antennae medio- 

 criter pectinatae. Pedes graciles ; tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor 

 longis. Alae latiusculae. 



Male. Body slender. Proboscis very short. Palpi hairy, de- 

 cumbent, rather short ; third joint very small. Antennae moderately 

 pectinated. Legs slender; hind tibiae with four long spurs. Wings 

 rather broad. Fore wings with the third inferior vein a little 

 nearer to the second than the second is to the first ; fourth about 

 thrice further from the third than the second is from the first. 



1. Melia costalis. 



Mas. Fusca, subtus cum pedibus fusco-alba ; antenna fusco- 

 alba, ramis fuscis; ala anticm pallide cinereo-fusca, fasciis 

 tribus macula subapicali liturisque nonnullis obscurioribus ; 

 posticce pallide cinereo-fusca, gutta discali fasciaque inter- 

 rupta submarginali subtus fuscis. 



