NOVITATES ZOOLOQICAE XXVI. 1919. 53 



frons smoothly scaled ; eyes large, elliptical ; antennae of female almost simple, 

 dilated towards extremity where there is a slight tuft of hair ; thorax smoothly 

 scaled ; fore tibiae slightly fringed with hair ; mid tibiae with slight tufts of 

 spinous hair at middle and extremity ; hind tibiae and the first joint of tarsi 

 strongly fringed on both sides with hair and hair -like scales ; abdomen smoothly 

 scaled. Forewing narrow ; veins 2, 3 approximated ; 7, 8 coincident ; 10, 11 

 approximated. Hindwing with veins 3 and 5 from a point at lower angle of cell, 

 4 absent ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7 from upper angle of cell ; 8 concealed 

 in fold. 



* t Grypopalpia iridescens n. sp. 



?. Head and thorax black with an iridescent gloss and irrorated with a few 

 white scales, the sides of frons and genae white, the palpi with the scales at 

 extremity of 1st joint on inner side and some of the long hair at extremity 

 of 2nd joint white ; abdomen scarlet, the basal segment black, the 2nd, 3rd, 

 4th, and 5th with slight black segmental lines and diffused dorsal spots ; fore- 

 legs black with white spots at base and extremity of coxae and the tarsi ringed 

 with ochreous, the hindlegs with some white and ochreous at middle and extremity, 

 the tarsi suffused with ochreous, the hindlegs with the tibiae except at base and 

 the 1st joint of tarsi orange-scarlet, the rest of tarsi with a few orange scales ; 

 ventral surface of abdomen orange-scarlet except at base. Forewing black 

 suffused with brilliant metallic blue-green except the costal area and cilia. Hind- 

 wing with the costal half and the veins and margins of inner half black suffused 

 with brilliant metallic blue-green, the interspaces of inner half hyaline ; cilia 

 black. 



ITatal, Durban (Leigh), type ? in Coll. Rothschild. Ex-p. 20 mill. 



Gen. Heterosphecia. 



Type. 



Heterosphecia Le Ceri, Oberth. £<. Lip. Comp. xiv. p. 243 (1917) .... myticus 



(1) Heterosphecia eruentata. 



■\Adixoa cruerUata Swinh., A.M.N.H. (6) xvii. p. 359 (1896). 

 Assam, Khasis. 



(2) * Heterosphecia haematochiodes. 



AachistophUps liacmatochrodes Le Ceri, Bull. Sor. Ent. Fr. 1912. p. 354. fig. 

 Tonkm. 



(3) * Heterosphecia myticus. 



Heterosphecia myticus 1,6 Ceri, Obertii. M. Lip. C<»np.:ia, 1. pi. 375. f. 3139 (1916); id. Ic. xiv. 

 p. 244. 



Assam, Naga Hills. 



(4) * Heterosphecia melissoides. 

 t AschistopMeps melissoides Hmpen. Moths Ind. i. p. 201 (1893). 

 Burma, E. Pegu. 



Gen. Crinipus. 



Crinipus Hmpsn., P.Z.S, 1896. p. 277 hucozunipus 



