94 NOVTTATES ZOOLOGICAE XXVI. 1919, 



Forewing black -brown with traces of a hyaline streak below middle of cell and 

 of short streaks beyond the cell between veins 7 and 3. Hindwing hyaline, the 

 veins and margins narrowly black -brown. 



Br. H. Africa, Kibwezi (Neave), 1 ? ; Iffashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall) 

 1 tJ type. Exp. 22-30 mill. 



(54) t * Melittia xanthogaster n. sp. 



$. Head, thorax, and abdomen black -bro'mi -n-ith a few white scales, especi- 

 ally in the frontal tuft and round the neck ; antennae with the shaft yellow 

 above ; palpi black -brown with some white hairs and a few rufous ones at tips ; 

 pectus and legs black -browTi, the fore tibiae with some rufous and white hairs, 

 the tarsi black ringed with white, the mid tibiae with some rufous hair, the hind 

 tibiae and tarsi with some rufous hairs and the tibiae ^-ith some opalescent white 

 scales ; ventral surface of abdomen yellow. Forewng black -brown sparsely 

 irrorated with blue-white scales ; short hyaline streaks beyond the cell between 

 veins 6 and 3 and in the type a minute spot above vein 6. Hindwing hyaline, 

 the veins and margins narrowly black -brown, the lobed inner margin clothed 

 with silvery-blue scales. 



Br. E. Africa, Escarpment (Doherty), 2 ? type in Coll. Rothschild. 

 Exp. 36 mill. 



(55) Melittia aenescens. 



t Melittia aenescens Butl., P.Z.S. 1896. p. 134. pi. 6. f. 10. 



Melittia natalensis var. occidenialis Le Cerf, Oberth. £t. Lip. Comp. xiv. p. 167. pi. 475. f. 3917 



(1917). 



Gaboon ; Br. C. Africa ; N-W. Rhodesia ; Portuguese B. Africa. 



(56) Melittia natalensis. 



t Melillia natalensis Butl., A.M.N.H. (4) xiv. p. 411 (1874). 

 ITatal. 



(57) * Melittia ruficincta. 



t EubUpharis ruficincta Feld., Reis. Nov, p. 75. f. 4 (1874). 



Sudan. The type has no abdomen or legs, the neuration is that of a Melittia. 



(58) * Melittia astarte. 



t Trochilium astarte Westw., Cab. Or. Ent. p. 61. pi. 30. f. 4 (1848);' Hmpsu. Moths Ind. p. 202. 

 Punjab. 



(59) * Melittia aurcciliata. 



Pansa aurociliata Auriv., Oefv. Ak. Fork, xxxvi. 7. p. 47 (1879). 

 Bam ar aland. 



(59ffl) t Melittia ectothyris n. sp. 

 $. Head and tegulae fulvous orange ; thorax and abdomen brown, the 

 former with orange-fulvous line behind the tegulae and tuft of hair at end of 

 patagia, the latter with golden-orange band on 2nd segment and the anal 

 tuft orange ; antennae black ; pectus and legs orange and brown, the hind legs 

 black -brown, the tibiae above except at base and the tarsi except at extremity 



