PARORENA. — MELAKOPHTHALMA. 
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excurvecl beyond the cell and very slightly waved ; post- 
medial line double, dark brown, curved and minutely denta.e, 
some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 
white, slightly excurved below vein 7, more strongly at 
middle, ending at tornus ; a lunulate black terminal line, 
slightly defined on inner side by white ; cilia with three hue 
blackish lines through them. Hind wing reddish brown, 
tinned with grev towards termen ; a fine dark terminal 
line; cilia whitish with two fine brown lines near base and 
some brown at tips. Underside of fore wing whitish suffused 
with brown except on inner area, a dark bar from costa 
beyond middle ; hind wing whitish irrorated with brown, 
the costal area tinged with red-brown, a dark discoidal bar, 
curved postmedial line and diffused subterminal line . 
Hab. Mexico, Guadalajara ( Goldsmith ), 1 o type ; Brazil, 
Rio Janeiro, Tijuca (Wagner), 1 <$. Exp. 22-24 millim. 
Genus LEUCOTELA. nov. 
Type L. nigripalpis, Walk. (. Marimatha ), xxxiv. 1204 
(18650 Druce. Biol.-Centr. Am.. Het., i. p. 463 (1891). . . 
Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned the 2nd joint 
reaching to vertex of head, moderately scaled in front and 
fringed with hair behind towards extremity, the 3rd model at , 
thickly scaled ; frons smooth, with tuft of hair above ; eyes 
large,' round; antennae of female with bristles and cilia; 
thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without 
crests ; tibiae slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen smoothly 
scaled and without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, 
the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 ancl o 
from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 
anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. H 
wins with the cell half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from 
angfe • 5 fully developed from well above angle ; 6, / fiorn 
upper ’angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
Genus MELANOPHTHALMA, nov. 
Type, M. signata, Butl. (Adenia), A. M. N. H. (5) v. p. 393 
<1: Proboscis fully developed ; palpi dovneurved extending 
about twice the length of head and ringed wnth ta above 
and below ; frons smooth, with pointed tuft of han abo\ e 
eves large round; antennae of male with slight bristles an 
cilia ■ thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without 
crests • tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen smoothly scaled 
and without create. Fore wing with the apex rounded, Ae 
termen evenly curved and not crenulate, 'vei <> 
