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of hindwings ; pectus and fore and mid femora white in front, the mid legs 

 black with some rufous and white hair on the tibiae, the hind legs clothed with 

 black, bright rufous and whitish hair, the tibiae with bands of spatulate white 

 scales before and beyond middle. Forewing hyaline ; the veins and margins 

 black -brown, the latter slightly irrorated with whitish ; the discoidal bar strong ; 

 •the terminal band expanding on apical area but leaving some hyaline between 

 bases of veins 7, 8. Hindwing hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly black- 

 brown, some yellow hair on the lobed inner margin. 



Uganda, Toro, Mpanga Forest (Neave), 1(? type. Exf. 34 mill. 



(12) * Melittia bouleti. 



Melitlia bouleti he Cerf, Oberth. £t. Up. Comp. xiv. p. 222. pi. 476. £. 3928 (1917). 

 Mozambique, Pungwe R. 



Sect>. II. Vertex of head not clothed with long hair projecting forward 

 between the anten nae. 



(13) * Melittia rutilipes. 



t Melittia rutilipes Wlk., xxxi. 16 (1864), 



Amboina in Coll. Rothschild ; Batchiau. 



(14) * Melittia chrysogaster. 

 t Melittia chrysogaster Wlk., xxxi. 16 (1864). 

 Celebes. 



(15) * Melittia batchiana. 

 Melittia batchiana Le Cerf, Oberth. St. Up. Comp. xiv. p. 190. pi. 476. f. 3920 (1917). 

 Batchiau. 



(16) * Melittia bombyJormis. 

 t Deemopoda bomhyfarmis Feld., Reis. Nov. pi. 75. f. 5 (1874). 



Amboina. 



(17) * Melittia marangana, 



Melittia marangana Le Ceri, Oberth. tt. Up. Comp. xii. i. pi. 373. f. 3116 (1916); id. I.e. xiv, 

 p. 188. 

 Sumatra. 



(18) * Melittia distincta. 



Melittia distincta Le Cerf, Oberth. £t. Up. Comp. xii. i. pi. 374. f. 3122 (1916) ; id. I.e. xiv. 

 p. 203. 



Assam, Khasis. 



(19) Melittia amboinensis. 



Mdittia amboinensis Feld., Sitz. Ahad. Wiessens Wien. xliii. p. 28 (1861). 

 Melittia nepeha Moore, Lep. Alk. p. 10 (1879) ;. Hmpsn. Moths Ind. i. p. 205. 

 t Melittia dorsatiformis Hmpsn., III. Het. B.M. viii. p. 43. pi. 139. f. 21 (1891). 

 Melittia congruens Swinh., Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890. p. 169. pi. vi. f. 4. 



