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3. Sphecia tricolor sp. nov. 



<S. Palpi and collar scarlet ; head, antennae and thorax black ; abdomen black 



with wood-brown anal tuft and wood-brown spots along sides. Forewings black. 



Hindwing semivitreons opalescent sky-blue, a verj- large tornal patch and 



fringes black. 



Length of forewing : 19 mm. 



flab. Matang Road, Sarawak, October 30, 1909. 



4. Melittia auricollis sp. nov. 



<S. Palpi and antennae rufous orange ; head rufous orange mixed with black; 

 collar metallic golden ; abdomen blackish steel-blue ; forelegs with golden-brown 

 tarsi and blackish tibiae and coxae ; middle legs black with golden-brown dots 



on tarsi ; hindlegs black with purplish tinted tufts. Forewing metallic royal 



purple with some scattered green scales. -Hindwing yellowish vitreous with a 



large royal purple patch on apex of cell widening out over two-thirds of costal 

 region ; nervnres and margins purple. 



Length of forewing 12 mm. 



Hab. Mt. Penrissen, Sarawak, 3300 ft., November 14, 1909, and Ulu Lawas, 

 August 31, 1909. 



Family SYNTOMIDAE. 



5. Trichaeta biplag^iata sp. nov. 



? . Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; antennae black, with buff tips. 



Forewing black, a subbasal, square, semivitreons patch below median vein, a 

 larger patch at end of cell divided into four by the nervnres, and extending from 

 vein 2 to subcostal. Hindwing blue-black. 



Length of forewing : 13 mm. 



[Jab. Kiesin Hills, Sarawak, July 21, 1909. 



6. Trichaeta albifrontia borealis subsji. nov. 



Differs from alhifronthi albifrontia in the absence of the upper subbasal white 

 patch and the smaller size of the spot on hindwing. 



Hab. Limbang, April 1909; in my collection also from Tuton, North Borneo, 

 May 1895 (A. Everett). 



7. Amata leucozonoides sp. nov. 



? . Dift'ers from lencnzoiia Hmpsn. in having the semivitreons white spots 

 of the forewing much larger, and in the large spot in cell, and the absence of 

 the spot near tornns. 



Length of forewing : 2.j mm. 



Hab. Kuching, Borneo, June 1900. 



8. Eressa syntomoides sp. nov. 



?. Frons white; rest of head, antennae, and thorax dark brown, shoulders 



white ; abdomen dark brown, basal segment and lateral rows of spots white. 



Forewing sooty brown, a large subbasal and a second smaller discal spot below 

 median nervnre semihyaline white, a similar spot in cell and postmedian band 



