. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. PAHA —PSEUDMELISA. 83 *299 a. Paramelisa lophura. Paramelisa lophura, Auriv. Ark. f. Zool. iii. 1. p. 13, pi. i. f. 2 (1905). c?. Head, teguke, and pectus orange-yellow; antennae with the shaft white above; thorax dark brown; tibia? brown, their extremities and the tarsi white ; abdomen with the 1st two segments dirk brown, the 3rd segment yellowish white emitting a dorsal band on 4th segment, the remaining segments black with orange lines at. Fig. 15.—Paramelisa lophura, J. \. middle of segments and yellowish white t
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. PAHA —PSEUDMELISA. 83 *299 a. Paramelisa lophura. Paramelisa lophura, Auriv. Ark. f. Zool. iii. 1. p. 13, pi. i. f. 2 (1905). c?. Head, teguke, and pectus orange-yellow; antennae with the shaft white above; thorax dark brown; tibia? brown, their extremities and the tarsi white ; abdomen with the 1st two segments dirk brown, the 3rd segment yellowish white emitting a dorsal band on 4th segment, the remaining segments black with orange lines at. Fig. 15.—Paramelisa lophura, J. \. middle of segments and yellowish white terminal lines, the anal tuft orange, the ventral surface yellowish white. Fore wing uniform brown. Hind wing orange-yellow, the costal area suffused with brown hair. Underside of fore wing with some orange below base of cell; hind wing orange, the lobe fuscous brown. Hah. W. Africa, Congo, Mukimbungu, type f 6 in Mus. Stockholm. Exp. 50 millim. *299 b. Paramelisa lophuroides. Paramelisa lophuroides, Oberth. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. Ixxix. p. 463, pi. 17. f. 13 (1911). d • Head and thorax brown, the vertex of head yellow, the antenna? pale yellow, the teguke yellow at tips ; tarsi with the 1st joint crimson above, the extremities yellowish white; abdomen brown with some red hair at base, the 3rd segment yellowish white, the following segments with narrow red bands, the anal tuft black- brown. Fore wing uniform brown. Hind wing ochreous yellow. Hah. Cameroons, Johann Albrecht's Hbhe (Conradt). Exp. 42 millim. This species is unknown to me. Genus PSEUDMELISA. Type, Pseudmelisa, Hmpsn. P. Z. S. 1910, p. 391 chalybsa. Proboscis absent; palpi small, porrect; antenna? of female laminate ; tibia? with minute terminal pairs of spurs ; abdomen very elongate. Fore wing narrow and elongate, the termen very obliquely curved ; vein 3 from beforo. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appea
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