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(26) * MeUttia tabanus. 



Melittia tabanus Le Cerf, Oberth. £t. Lip. Comp. xu. L pi. 374. pi. 374. f. 3128 (1916) ; id. I.e. xiv. 

 p. 205. 



Burma, Tenasserim. 



(27) t Melittia moluccaensis n. sp. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown, the vertex of head and meta- 

 thorax mth some fulvous hair ; palpi black -brown mixed with orange ; pectus, 

 legs, and ventral surface of abdomen black -brown, the forelegs with orange 

 mixed and the tarsi orange, the mid tibiae with some orange hair, the hind 

 tibiae with deep orange hair at middle and extremity. Forewing very dark red- 

 brown with a few orange scales ; a yellowish hyaline streak below the cell, a 

 wedge-shaped streak in the cell, and four short streaks beyond the cell between 

 veins 7 and 3, the uppermost shortest ; the dark diseoidal patch large and 

 emitting a short streak in the cell. Hindwing yellowish hyaline, the veins and 

 margins narrowly dark brown. 



Batchian (Waterstradt), 2 3 type in Coll. Rothschild ; Bum (Doherty), 

 1 (J, 1 9 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. .34 mill. 



(28) Melittia rufodorsa. 



t MeliUia rufodorsa Hmpsn., A.M.N.H. (8) vi. p. 150 (1910). 

 Congo. 



(29) Melittia culuana. 



t Melittia kulluana Moore, P.Z.S. 1888. p. 392 ; Butl., III. Met. B.M. vii. p. 98. pi. 135. f. 12 ; 

 Hmpsn., Moths Ind. i. p. 204 ; Bartel, Seitz, Gr. Schm. pal. ii. p. 379. pi. 51. a. 



Punjab, Kulu. 



(30) t * Melittia elaea n. sp. 



(J. Head and thorax black -brown mixed with some red-brown and whitish, 

 the palpi whitish to near extremity of 2nd joint ; build slender ; abdomen 

 blue-black with red -brown segmental lines ; pectus whitish tinged with rufous ; 

 legs black -brown, the fringe of hair on mid tibiae mostly rufous, on hind tibiae 

 and tarsi black -brown mixed with rufous and white ; ventral surface of abdomen 

 rufous. Forewing narrow, hyaline with the veins and margins black ; the 

 diseoidal patch emitting a short streak in the cell ; the terminal band expanding 

 slightly on apical area. Hindwing hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly 

 black. 



Assam, Khasis, type S in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 22 mill. 



(31) * Melittia hampsoni. 



t MeliUia grandis Hmpsa., Moths Ind. L p. 203 (1893), nee Streck. 1881. 

 Melittia hampsoni Beutenm., Bull. Am. Mus. vi. p. 365 (1894). 



Sikhim. 



