NOVITATES ZOOLOOICAE XXVI. 1919. 86 



strongly irrorated with rufous, the 5th with broad creamy white band ; pectus 

 and ventral surface of abdomen white ; legs black and white, the fore tibiae with 

 a little rufous on outer side, the mid tibiae with some rufous, the hind tibiae and 

 tarsi rufous mixed with some black on outer side with two patches of wliite on 

 the tibiae and one on the tarsi, the hair and scales on the inner side of the tibiae 

 and tarsi black-brown. Forewing hyaline, the veins and margins black tinged 

 with grey, the median nervure, inner margin, and veins beyond the cell irrorated 

 with fulvous ; the discoidal spot strong, black defined on each side by fiery 

 rufous ; the terminal band expanding towards apex and irrorated except at 

 termen with fulvous and whitish. Hindwing hyaline, the veins and margins 

 black ; a few fulvous scales at upper angle of cell ; the inner area orange fulvous ; 

 cilia grey-brown. Underside of forewing with some fulvous on costa towards 

 base and a whitish fascia below costa to beyond middle ; hindwing with some 

 fulvous on costa and median nervure to end of cell and on vein 1, the lobed inner 

 area orange fulvous as above. 



Br. C. Africa, Mt. Mlanje (Neave), 1 ? type ; Hatal, in Mus. Oxon. 

 Exp. 42 mill. 



(3) Melittia oedipus. 



Mdillia oedipus Oberth., 6t. Ent. iii. p. 30. pi. iii. f. 1 (1878). 

 Melittia ignidiscata Hmpsn., P.Z.S. 1910. p. 597. pi. xli. f. 19. 

 Melittia oedipoides. Strand, Arch. f. Naturg. Ixxviii. A. 12. p. 68 (1913). 



Spanish Gninea ; Zanzibar ; Br. C. A&ica ; IT.E. Rhodesia ; Mashonaland ; 

 S. Rhodesia ; Transvaal. 



(4) t Melittia endoxantha n. sp. 



?. Head white and fulvous yellow with the hair on vertex mostly black, the 

 antennae black with two series of white points above, the frons whitish, the palpi 

 white with some blackish and yellowish hair in front ; thorax olive-fulvous with 

 some blackish scales on shoulders ; abdomen black-brown mixed with orange- 

 fulvous, some orange-yellow hair at base of sides and whitish segmental lines ; 

 pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen creamy white, the forelegs with some 

 black on femora and tibiae above, the mid legs with the femora blackish above, 

 the tibiae clothed with orange-fulvous and some black hair above and with black 

 patches at base and extremity, the tarsi black and white with the hair on basal 

 joint creamy white and fulvous, the hind legs with the femora black, the hair on 

 tibiae fulvous and black with patches of white at middle and extremity, the tarsi 

 with the hair fulvous and white on basal joint, mostly black on inner side and 

 towards extremity. Forewing hyaline, the veins and margins black mixed with 

 grey ; some fulvous scales above inner margin and defining the discoidal bar on 

 inner and outer sides ; the terminal band expanding widely on apical area, defined 

 on inner side by fulvous scales and irrorated with blue-white before termen ; 

 cilia pale cinnamon-brown. Hindwing hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly 

 black ; the lobed inner margin orange-yellow and some yellow on lower disco- 

 cellular and base of vein 6 ; cilia pale cinnamon-brown. Underside of forewing 

 with pale yellow streak below costa to beyond middle, the hindwing with some 

 orange-fulvous at base of costa. 



" Genu. E. Africa," Usangu Distr. (Neave), 1 ? type ; Portugese E. Africa, 

 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 34 mill. 



