. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. MilLAiKBRA. 327 Genus MELAMERA, nov. Type, M. velutina. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate; frona smooth; eyes large, round; antennse of male minutely ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, the mesothorax wilh slight paired ci-ests, the melathorax with depressed crest; tibife slightly fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crests on 1st four segments, the crest on 2ud segment large. Fore
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. MilLAiKBRA. 327 Genus MELAMERA, nov. Type, M. velutina. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate; frona smooth; eyes large, round; antennse of male minutely ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, the mesothorax wilh slight paired ci-ests, the melathorax with depressed crest; tibife slightly fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crests on 1st four segments, the crest on 2ud segment large. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen slightly ex- curved at middle and excised towards tornus, hardly crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; o almost fully developed from above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 5503. Melamera velutina, n. sp. Head and thorax bluish grey mixed with bhick-brown ; palpi black, white at base, at extremity of 2nd joint and at base and extremity of 3rd joint; vertex of head with black bar; tegulse with broad black-brown band ; fore tibiae and the tarsi black-brown ringed with white; abdomen reddish brown mixed with grey, the crests black-brown. Fore wing pale rufous with a large rather quadrate black-brown patch on inner medial area defined by whitish and extending into the cell where its upper edge is slightly angled at middle and before the discocellulars ; some black-brown suffusion at base of inner area; slight subbasal and antemedial white striaj from costa defined on each side by blackish ; a medial black striga. Fig. 94.—Melamera velutina, c^. I. from costa; a black discoidal point defined below by a minute Y-shaped whitish mark indenting the black area; postmedial line with slight white mark at costa, then pale slightly defined on outer side by brown, obliqu
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