86 NOVITATES ZOOLOOICAE XXVI. 1919. 



(5) t Melittia chrysobapta n. sp. 



(J. Head with the vertex clothed wth golden ohve and black hair, the frons 

 yellowish white, the antennae with some white scales above, deep red in front ; 

 thorax golden oUve, with tufts of yellow hair behind the patagia ; abdomen \\ith 

 the two basal segments golden yellow, the other segments black clothed with 

 metalhc golden hair and \nth golden segmental rings ; pectus yello^^ish white, 

 the fore legs yellowish white, streaked \%'ith black above, the mid legs with the 

 femora yellowish white below, black above, the tibiae yellow wth black bands 

 at middle and extremity, the former with a white patch before it in front, the 

 tarsi banded black and j'ellow, the hind legs with the femora yeUowish white, the 

 tibiae banded yellow and black with some fulvous hair in front, the tarsi black 

 with some yellow and fulvous in front of 1st joint, the extremity of tarsi white ; 

 ventral surface of abdomen yellowish white with downturned lateral tufts of 

 golden hair. Forewing hyahne yellow, the veins and margins black irrorated 

 with yellowish and fulvous scales ; the discoidal bar moderate and defined by 

 fulvous scales. Hindwing hyahne yellow, the veins and margins narrowly 

 black -brown, the lobed inner margin clothed witli golden-yellow scales. 



N.W. Rhodesia, Solwezi, Lufu (H. DoUman), 1 5 type. Exp. 40 mill. 



(6) Melittia uisipes. 

 t Mdiltia ursipes Wlk., viii. 68 (1856). 

 ITatal. 



(7) * Mehttia victrix. 



Melittia victrix Le Cerf, Oberth. ^t. Lep. Comp. xiii. pi. 375. ff. 3133^ (1916) ; id. I.e. xiv. p. 224. 

 Cameroons. 



(8) t * Melittia amblyphaea n. sp. 

 3- Head, thorax, and abdomen dull rufous with a few white scales, the vertex 

 of head with more white, the palpi mostly white in front ; legs dull rufous, the 

 hind tibiae at middle and the tarsi with some white scales ; ventral surface of 

 abdomen yellowish white. Forewing dull rufous irrorated with somcbluish-white 

 scales, especially on apical half of terminal area, ; a yeUowish hyaliite streak below 

 the cell, a wedge-shaped patch in middle of cell, and four short streaks beyond 

 the cell between veins 7 and 3, the uppermost shortest, the discoidal dull rufous 

 patch large and rather wedge-shaped. Hinchving yellowish hj'ahne, the veins 

 and margins dull rufous, the lobed inner area with the inner margin blue-white. 

 Br. East Africa, Escarpment (Dohertj'), 1 S type in Coll. Rothschild. 

 Exp. 28 mill. 



(9) * Melittia brevicomis. 



Mdittia brevicomis Auriv., Arh. f. Zool. a. 12. p. 43 (1905). 

 Cameroons. 



(10) * Melittia aethiopica. 



MdiUia aethiipica Le Cerf, Oberth. £t. Lep. Comp. xiv. p. 227. pi. 477. f. 3929 (1917). 

 Abyssinia. 



(11) t Melittia accsmetes n. sp. 

 (J. Head and thorax black-brown with a bronze gloss, the palpi black 

 mixed with ochreous white especially towards base, some yellow hair above base 



