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orange, the spurs white at tips. Fore-ning golden green irrorated with golden- 

 yellow scales ; cilia grey-bro-mi. Hindwirg brown glossed with blue, the inter- 

 spaces of terminal half hyahne ; cilia grey-brown. Underside of forewing dark 

 brown glossed with blue and slightly irrorated ^-ith white ; hindwing with the 

 veins of terminal half orange. 



Transvaal, 1 3 type. Exp. 40 mill. 



(60) Melittia aureosquamata. 



Paraaa aureoaquamata WUgm., Wien. Ent. Man. vu. p. 137 (1863). 

 Pansa aureosquamata WUgrn., Kongl. Svensk. Alcad. Handl. v. 4. p. 9 (1865). 

 Melittia houlberti Le Ceri, Oberth. St. Up. Comp. xiv. p. 233. pi. 1577. f. 3931 (1917). 

 Uganda ; Br. C. A&ica ; N-W. Rhodesia ; Transvaal ; Cape Colony. 



(61) t * Melittia abyssiniensis n. sp. 



?. Head and tegulae orange, the antennae black, some white at sides- of 

 frons and behind the eyes ; thorax black suffused with orange, the shoulders and 

 tufts of hair behind the patagia orange ; abdomen black slightly glossed with blue ; 

 pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen black, the tibiae and the hind tarsi 

 to extremity orange above the outer spurs of hind tibiae slightly fringed with 

 white hair. Forewing metallic blue-green irrorated with silvery scales. Hind- 

 wing brilhant metallic blue, the cilia brown tipped with whitish. Underside of 

 wings purple-blue with greenish reflections in parts. 



Abyssinia, Harrar (Kristensen) type ? in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 36 mill. 



Auctorum. 



Sphinx tibialis Drury, Exol. Ins. ii. p. 49. pi. 28. f. 2 (1773) Sierra Leone err. loe. - 

 Melittia satyrinijormis Hiibn., Zutr. ex Schnntt. iii. p. 17. ff. 453-1 (1825) N. America. 



Melittia iridisquama Mab., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) x. p. 31 (1890) . . . W. Africa. 



The description of the pencils of hair and long hair at end of abdomen 

 suggests a new genus. 

 Melittiaazrad'ljeCeii,BvU.Soc.Ent.Fr.\^li.^.&\.l.l Gaboon. 



The naked hind tarsi suggest a new genus. 



Gen. Melanosphecia. 



Type. 



Melanosphecia Le Cerf, Oberth. tt. Lip. Comp. xiv. p. 245 (1917) .... atra 

 This genus appears to have no tuft of hair at the extremity of the antennae ; 

 if so it is a derived and not ancestral character ; the hair papillae are present, 

 and the hairs may be worn off in the three specimens I have examined. 



(1) * Melanosphecia auricoUis, 



t Melittia auricoUis Roths., Nov. Zool. six. p. 123 (1912). 



Melanosphecia bouvieri Le Cerf, Oberth. £t. Lep. Comp. xiv. p. 247. pi, 477. ff, 3934-5 (1917). 

 Borneo, Sarawak, Mt. Penrissen. 



(2) Melanosphecia Junebris. 

 t Melittia junebris Roths., xviii. p. 46 (1911) and xix. pi. iv. £. 31. 

 Dorey. 



