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a patch of stellate bristles along its basal half. Aedeagus slender, 

 shorter than in the last mentioned species. 



Material examined: Luzon, Los Banos (Baker), 1 cf, holotype, 

 genit. slide 5774 A; 1 cf, para type (USNM). Nearest to P. regale 

 Butler, from India. 



Melittia Hubner, 1820 



Key to the Philippine Species of Melittia 



1. Forewing membrane yellowish; posterior tibia black with broad yellow bands. 



M. gigantea 

 Forewing membrane almost colorless; posterior tibia not distinctly yellow- 

 banded 2 



2. Posterior tibia above black, mixed with white; abdomen, posterior half 



without bands M. eurytion 



Posterior tibia above yellow mixed with white; abdomen throughout narrowly 

 banded with whitish M. siamica 



Melittia gigantea Moore, 1879 



Figures 719, 721 



Melittia gigantea Moore, 1879, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 413. — Waterhouse> 

 1882-90, Aid Identification Insects, vol. 2, p. 16, pi. 131, fig. 4.— Cotes and 

 Swinhoe, 1887, Cat. Moths India, p. 42, no. 198.— Hampson, 1892, [Moths 

 British India], vol. 1, p. 204. 



Melittia humerosa Swinhoe, 1892, in Cat. Lep. Het. Mus. Oxon., vol. 1. p. 38. 



Distribution: Japan, Korea, Central China, Punjab. 



Material examined: Luzon, Manila, 23.VIII.1945 (H.E. Milliron), 

 1 9 (BMH). Tip of forewing rather suffused with light fuscous and 

 ochreous. Posterior leg black, banded with yellow. 



Melittia siamica Walker, 1864 



Figures 722-723 



Melittia siamica Walker, 1864, List Lepidopterous Insects British Mus., pt. 31, 

 p. 18 (Malacca).— Hampson, 1919, Novit. Zool., vol. 26, p. 88. 



Melittia sumatrana Le Cerf, 1916, in Oberthiir, Etudes lepidoptferologie compar^c, 

 vol. 12, pt. 1, pi. 373, fig. 3113. 



Distribution: Malaya, Siam, Sumatra. 



Material examined: Luzon, Mt. Makiling (Baker), 1 9. The 

 hyaline area beyond cell is larger than in the type and probably 

 indicates a subspecific difference (USNM). 



Melittia eurytion (Westwood, 1848) 



Figures 726-727 



Trochiliuni eurytion Westwood, 1848, Cabinet Oriental Ent., p. 62, pi. 30, fig. 5. 



Melittia eurytion. — Hampson, 1892, [Moths British India], vol. 1, p. 203, fig. 



131. — Le Cerf, 1916, in Oberthur, Etudes l^pidoptferologie compar6e, vol. 



