. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. MELESE. ISO *1326 c. Melese hebetis. Melese hebetis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 271 (1909), & xviii. pi. 5. f. 39. c?. Head and thorax yellow faintly tinged with scarlet; palpi scarlet; frons brownish; antenna' brown with the basal joint scarlet; brownish streaks on outer edge of patagia and dorsum of thorax; pectus yellow, scarlet in Bront; coxae scarlet; legs grey, the femora scarlet above, tarsi whitish : abdomen pale crimson, the extremity brownish, the ventral surface yellowish. Fore wine,- red- brown with indistinct
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. MELESE. ISO *1326 c. Melese hebetis. Melese hebetis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 271 (1909), & xviii. pi. 5. f. 39. c?. Head and thorax yellow faintly tinged with scarlet; palpi scarlet; frons brownish; antenna' brown with the basal joint scarlet; brownish streaks on outer edge of patagia and dorsum of thorax; pectus yellow, scarlet in Bront; coxae scarlet; legs grey, the femora scarlet above, tarsi whitish : abdomen pale crimson, the extremity brownish, the ventral surface yellowish. Fore wine,- red- brown with indistinct pale striae; the base of inner margin yellow; a yellow spot on the brandandan ill-defined medial patch from cell to inner margin : a round white spot faintly defined by scarlet below have of vein 6 ; the costal edge tinged with scarlet towards apex; a terminal yellow hand with minutely dentate inner edge from apex to below vein 1. Hind wing semihyaline white; the underside with the costal area faintly tinged with scarlet to end of cell. Rah. Pehtj, R. Huacamayo, La Union (Ockenden), type t 6 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 36 millim. 1320 J. Melese hampsoni. Melese hampsoni, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 272 11909), & xviii. pi. 5. f. 42. Antennae of male ciliated. J. Head and thorax grey tinged with brown; palpi with the 2nd joint crimson behind; tegulae crimson below; patagia with some black-brown hair at extremity; metathorax with crimson patch; pectus and base of legs pale crimson, tibiae and tarsi brown, the latter with whitish band at base; abdomen crimson, the anal tuft and ventral surface yellow. Voyl- wing brownish grey, the. Fig-. 72. - Meles • hamps mi, '. ]-. terminal area with dark brown irroration ; a patch of yellow thickly irrorated with deep red on inner margin from near base to beyond middle, expanding at middle up to origin of vein 2, with a small comma-shaped white mark edged with deep red on its upper ed°-e before middle, a red point edged with black-brown a
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