MELITTIA. By B. Zukowsky. 
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hindlegs which are thickly covered with black hair; a few yellow hairs near the body. 32 mm. Mexico: Rio 
Papagaio, Guerrero, 400 m; Dos Arrayos, Guerrero, 350 m. September, October. 
M. butleri Drc. (179 d). Forewing hyaline, apex and costal margin black. Hindwing hyaline, margins butleri. 
black. Antennae black. Thorax and abdomen beautifully yellowish brown, abdomen more black, though 
the posterior segmental margins always remain yellowish brown. Ventrum and apex of abdomen beneath 
yellowish brown. 30—33 mm. Mexico, Oaxaca. 
M. cyaneifera Wkr. (179 d). Black. Palpi scaled black. Antennae rust-coloured apically. Thorax and cyaneifera 
abdomen brownish, scaled felt-like, dingy yellow beneath. Forelegs the same; hindlegs thickly covered with 
black hair which are inside reddish, the joints with white hair. Wings transparent, fringes purple, margins of 
the forewing, transverse band and distal area purple black, anal region of hindwing more or less metallic bluish 
green. 35 mm. Brazil, Rio de Janeiro. — var. reducta Le Cerf has only three veins in the distal area, while reduda. 
the type has four; it is said to appear especially in the north of the range. 
M. umbrosa s-p. n. (179 d) is a strange species which at first sight reminds us of the Asiatic M. eurythion umbrosa. 
Ww. (Vol. X, pi. 95 f). But it lacks above all the light under surface of the abdomen, otherwise it does not 
differ very much from that likewise very variable species occurring in India, Indo-China and farther. The 
is bluish black above and beneath (antennae absent). Palpi white with a few black hairs. The last hairs of 
the anal tuft are dull grey. Wings transparent, margins and veins normal, black; a greyish white tinge in the 
apical area on the broad distal margin, as in eurythion. The distal area is crossed by five veins, the uppermost 
of which bifurcates shortly before it enters the margin; fringe dull greyish black. Legs black, tarsi and tibiae 
of the hindlegs thickly covered with black hair, above with two dingy yellow hair-tufts; tarsi of the forelegs 
white, of the middle legs black with white rings. 1 <$. 26 mm. Brazil, Nova Teutonia, Sa. Catharina. Type 
in the Coll. Plaumann. 
M. latimargo Btlr. (179 e). Wings hyaline, veins black; forewing: costa, discal streak, a broad apical latimargo. 
margin and inner margin blackish brown, fringe pale prown; hindwing with thin blackish brown margins, fringe 
pale brown, inner margin as far as the base covered with a few green scales. Body above loam-coloured, more 
ochreous towards the head. Antennae black above, rust-coloured below. Chest and the first pair of legs ochreous, 
the second pair brown, ochreous inside, femora of the hindlegs scaled, tibiae and tarsi with long recurvous 
brown scales, with a few interspersed reddish hair-scales, tibiae below with a pale green spot and two cream- 
coloured and blackish brown terminal tufts. 40 mm. Brazil. Curityba, Parana. — It is closely allied to 
cyaneifera ; latimargo is mostly larger, more yellow, with different legs, broader discal streaks and margins, no 
blue in the hindwing. 
M. rugia Drc. Head, antennae, tegulae, thorax and abdomen black. Palpi white, black apically. Legs rugia. 
black with black hair, bright red at the end of the joints. Forewing bluish black, cell hyaline, fringe black; 
hindwing hyaline, veins and fringe black, the inner margin from the base to the anal angle thickly covered 
with metallic bluish green scales. 42 mm. Peru, Chanchamayo. 350—500 m. 
M. lagopus Bsd. Antennae black, dentate in the $. Palpi and chest white. The collar exhibits a few lagopus. 
white hairs. Thorax brown. Legs brown, curled white at the joints, the hindlegs black-haired. Abdomen 
black, somewhat shining, the 2nd segment margined with white. Anal tuft black. Forewing black with a 
transparent longitudinal streak extending beyond the middle, cut into two parts by a vein, and a transparent 
distal area divided into four parts by three veins. Hindwing transparent, veins, fringe and a small bow below 
the costa black. 26 mm. Cayenne, on the Oyapock River. 
M. brabanti Le Cerf (179 e). Head blackish grey, white before the eyes. Palpi yellowish, mixed with brabanti. 
black. Antennae strong and long, black above, brown beneath. Collar and thorax olive grey, thoracal sides 
dingy yellow. Abdomen greyish black, a slight white transverse stripe on the 2nd segment. Anal tuft rather 
long, tripartite, blackish grey, ventrum dingy yellow. Legs greyish black and yellow, the coxae all yellow, 
hind tibiae with long black hair which are intermixed with whitish yellow above, the tarsi likewise with blackish 
hair as far as the end, more scantily whitish yellow above. Forewing transparent, margins, veins and discal 
vein bronze black; hindwing transparent, margins and veins bronze black, bluish green scales at the abdominal 
margin; fringes of all the wings bronze black. 44 mm. French Guiana, Gourdonville. 1 <§. 
M. xanthopus Le Cerf (179e). Head blackish olive, face greyish yellow, the eyes narrowly margined xanthopus. 
with white. Palpi outside yellow, white inside. Antennae long and thick, not bent before the tips, black above, 
brown beneath. Collar and thorax olive brown. Abdomen blackish, the posterior margin of each segment finely 
margined with yellow, anal tuft light olive brown. Ventrum light olive, the last joints and the anal tuft yellow. 
Legs dingy yellow and olive brown, posterior tibiae with long black hair, mixed with yellow at the base and 
below, darker yellow above and outside. Tarsi densely covered with long black hair, the last two joints less 
long and bright yellow. Forewing transparent, veins, margins and discal vein, all not very broad, sooty black. 
