PAPILLA. — MELIPOTIS. 477 



sinuous dark lines ; traces of a pale waved subrnarginal line 

 marginal series of black specks. 



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Fig. 264. — Vanilla dispila, $ . \. 



The form from the N.W. Himalayas is large, with a prominent 

 black triangular patch on the costa of fore wing before apex. 



Hob. N.W. Himalayas; Poona ; JSTilgiris; Ceylon. Exp. 26- 

 34 millim. 



2448. Panilla albopunctata, Wih. Cat. xiii, p. 1068 ; C. $ S. no. 2457. 

 Alamis meleagris, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. Ill, fig. 32 ; C. § S. no. 2456. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with dark red-brown, grey, 

 and fuscous scales. Fore wing dark red-brown suffused with 

 grey, which covers the whole of the wing except the costal and 

 outer areas, which are irrorated with grey ; indistinct waved sub- 

 basal, antemedial, and medial lines ; orbicular small, dark, and 

 elongate ; reniform prominent, with some grey on it ; a dentate 

 postmedial line and indistinct subrnarginal line ; a marginal series 

 of dark specks. Hind wing red-brown ; some grey at base ; an 

 indistinct medial line and dentate postmedial; the whole outer 

 area except apex covered with white spots and short waved stria? ; 

 a series of black specks on margin. 



Hab. " N. India ; " Ceylon. Exp. 40 millim. 



Genus MELIPOTIS. 



Melipotis, Hubn. Zutr. i, p. 17 (1806-1818). 

 Anumeta, Wih. Cat. xv, p. 1769 (1858). 

 Palpangula, Stand. Stett. Ent. Zeit. xl, p. 324 (1879). 



Type, M. jucunda, Hiibn., from 1ST. America. 



Range. Nearctic region; Europe ; Central Asia ; N. W. Hima- 

 layas ; Sind. 



Palpi with the 2nd joint obliquely upturned and reaching vertex 

 of head, the 3rd long and porrect ; antenna? with short fasci- 

 culated cilia in male. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled ; 

 mid and hind tibiae with medial and terminal tufts of loDg spinous 

 hairs. Pore wing with the apex somewhat quadrate. 



Sect. I. {Anumeta). Pore, mid, and hind tibia? with the 

 spinous tufts immensely developed. 



2449. Melipotis atrosignata, Wlk, Cat. xv, p. 1770; C. $ S. 

 no. 2190. 



Plead, thorax, and abdomen grey. Pore wing yellowish grey 



