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AORISTA; MELEABA. By M. Gaede. 
accip iter aria. 
alodia. 
theclaria. 
urania. 
antithetes. 
excavated below it. Vein 5 above the middle of the cross-vein. 6 + 7 and 8 + 9 stalked, 11 terminating into 
12. Type = numicusaria Wkr. from India (Vol. X, pi. 58 e). 
0. accipiteraria Wkr. Reddish yellow, dusted brown. Forewing with 2 hardly recognizable interior 
lines. A broad violettish brown line from the apex, distinct outside, faded inside. A few black submarginal 
dots. The apical line of the forewing will probably be continued on the hindwing. 36 mm. Venezuela. 
D. minimaria Wkr. was placed here by Dalla Torre, but it is presumably no Decetia and no Epiple- 
mida at all. 
2. Genus: Aorista Warr. 
This genus was established by Warren for a single species described by Dognin from Loja, exhibiting 
a strange resemblance to the Urapteroides which are reckoned to the Microniinae and otherwise unknown in 
the American Fauna. On comparing the American Aorista with Urapteroides urapterina figured in Vol. X on 
pi. 72 a, we find it to look almost exactly like a smaller sized specimen of this Australian species. Not only 
the black-spotted marginal dent of the hindwing seems te be exactly copied in the two species which are 
geographically so distantly separated, but also the course of the oblique line traversing the wings is the same, 
and another remarkable fact is that the costal-marginal edge of Aorista exhibits the very same deep black 
transverse streaks which are so conspicuous in numerous Microiinae of the Indo-Australian Region, as for in¬ 
stance in Stesichora advocataria Gn. (Vol. X, pi. 72 f) and others. — The type of this scheme of marking is also 
repeated in quite different families on both hemispheres, e. g. in the Asthenidia in America and the Uraptery- 
ginae of the Old World. This zoogeographical curiosity reminds us also of the analogous phenomenon in the 
distribution of the genuine Uraniidae, where the genus Chrysiridia in South-East Africa is separated from the 
Urania in South America by oceans and continents showing no connection whatever. — A less unintelligible 
though remarkable fact is that this type of colouring is also exhibited by other genera of South American 
Epiplemidae, as for instance by Morphomima albipennaria H.-Schdff. (170 e). — Palpi short. Antennae of 
A short, pectinated. Forewing broad, apex slightly produced, distal margin oblique. Vein 5 from the upper 
cell-angle, 6 + 7 and 8 + 9 + 10 stalked. Vein 11 terminating into 12 and 10 into 11. Veins 3+4 and 6 + 7 
of hindwing stalked, 5 a little above the middle of the cross-vein. Broadly projecting at the margin between 
veins 3 and 4, a point at vein 2, then two excisions at the anal angle. Type and only species: 
A. alodia Dgn. (170 a). Wings milky white. Forewing striated brown at the costal margin, with 4 trans¬ 
verse lines coloured like coffee with milk, the second of which is most distinct, while the third may even be 
absent. Hindwing with 3 lines which are confluent at the lobe at veins 3 and 4, where they terminate in streaks. 
Mostly there are also two black dots edged with yellow. A series of black submarginal striae. 30—33 mm. Loja 
(Ecuador). 
3. Genus: Meleaba Wkr. 
The present comprehension of the genus is rather doubtful. Body delicate, palpi short. Antennae of 
shortly pectinated. Forewing with a pointed apex, straight costal and distal margins, while in Aorista the 
costal margin is bent at the base and before the apex. Hindwing dentate at the distal margin near the anal 
angle and with a projecting lobe. Nothing is mentioned about the neuration, but according to Warren it differs 
much from Aorista. Type: theclaria Wkr. 
M. theclaria Wkr. White. Wings with 3 greyish brown transverse lines, the first double, the second 
and third formed of short streaks. Forewing besides with a distinct vertical interior greyish brown line. Hind¬ 
wing with a yellow spot at the inner margin, enclosing a black dot. Inner margin black at the end, edged with 
yellow. Very similar to Morph, candidata which we figure (170 e), separated by the antennae. 37 mm. Amazons. 
M. urania Dyar (172 e). White. Forewing with black long transverse streaks traversing the whole 
wing at the base. Median line straight, brown, faded, and another line in the exterior third, both nearing each 
other at the inner margin. The streaks at the margin shorter, but partly linearly united. Hindwing with an 
outward bend above the middle of the distal margin, an orange spot below it with 2 or 3 black dots. A brown 
line from the middle of the costal margin outward almost to the yellow spot, then rectangularly bent round 
on to the inner margin. Brown median streaks extend to this line. Black lines in the apical area. 20 mm. Mexico. 
M. antithetes Dyar (172 a). Forewing ochreous, densely dusted with brown, with 2 broad white lines 
and a discal spot. The interior line obliquely from + costal margin to the middle of the inner margin, slightly 
widened in the middle, excurved below it. The exterior line from % costal margin to the anal angle, slightly 
bent inward at the end. The spot at the cross-vein small and narrow. A pale submarginal shadow from the 
costal margin to the centre of the wing. Hindwing also with an outward bend, the orange spot below it with 
2 black dots. The rest of the hindwing white, the brown streaks showing through from beneath. A fine brown 
