TINTHIA.—MELITTIA. 191 
Type 2: Tinthia varipes Wkr. (Wkr. 1864). 
Tinrara Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. 31 23-4 (1864); Btlr. Ann-Mag. NH. (4 s.) 14 408 (1874) ; Hmsn. 
Fn. Br-Ind. Moths 1 188, 199-200 no. 11 tf. 127 sp. 379 (1892). 
Linthia varipes Wkr. and variegata Wkr. agree with tineiformis Hb. in having 
FW: 7-8 coincident, to costa; HW: 3 closely approximate to 2, remote from 4. 
Melittia Hb. has the neuration of the hindwings as in Tinthia, but FW: 7-8 are 
stalked. : | 
Type 3: Zenodoxus maculipes Grt. & Rbnsn. (Grt. & Rbnsn. 1868). 
Zenovoxus Grt. & Rbnsn. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. 2 183-4 (1868) ; Btmlr. Mem. Am. NH. 1 222, 225 
(1901). *Psrawrareve Btmlr. Mem. Am. Mus. NH. 1 314-6 tf. 24 Pf. 82-12-15 (1901). 
1. Tinthia tabogana Druce. 
Aegeria taboyana Druce Biol. C-Am. Ins. Lp-Het. 1 31 sp. 11 Pf. 5:16 (1883)'. 
Type 2 (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. 
Hab. Panama’: tapoea 1”: V. 1883 (G. C. Champion)’. 
2. Tinthia manoba Druce. | 
Sincara manoba Druce Ann-Mag. NH. (6s.) 4 82 (1889)': Biol. C-Am. Ins. Lp-Het. 2 326 sp. 6 
Pf. 69°21 (1896-7) *. 
Type 2 (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. 
Hab. Mexico’: tapasco’?: Teapa, II. 1888 (H. H. Smith)*”. 
 Yinthia sp.? Druce. 
Sincara sp.? Druce Biol. C-Am. Ins. Lp-Het. 2 326 sp. 7 (1896) °. 
Type 3 (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. 
Hab. Mexico’: tapasco’: Teapa (H. H. Smith) °. 
MELITTIA Hb. 
Type: Sesia chalciformis F. [=anthedoniformis Hb. nn. (§ bombyliformis Crmr, Pf. 200°C}; Hb. 1820. ] 
Meuitr1a Hb. Verz. Schm. 128 sp. 1874 (1820): Ztr. Smlg. Exot. Schm. 3 17 sp. 227 
Pf. [78] - 453-4 (1825); Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. 8 8, 66-70 no. 10 sp. 1-10 (1856) : 31 16-19 
(1864) ; Bdv. HN. Ins. Lp-Het. 1 468-79 (1874) ; Druce Biol. C-Am. Ins. Lp-Het. 1 32 
sp. 1-3 (1883) : 2 324-5 (1896) : Ann-Mag. NH. (6 s.) 4 81 (1889) : 9 276 (1892) ; Hmsn. 
Fn. Br-Ind. Moths 1 188, 202-5 no. 15 sp. 384-95 tf. 203° 131 (1892) ; Btmlr. Mem. Am. Mus. 
NH. 1 223, 224, 231-6 tf. 232°8 Pl. 29°1-5 (1901); Dyar Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 364 
sp. 4162-6 (1902); Busck Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 11 116, 117, 118 no. 14 (1909). 
Boisduval and Hampson both attribute Melittia to Walker, but Walker adopted 
the genus from Hiibner, giving the reference to the ‘ Verzeichniss. Hampson and 
