234 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 25 7 



12, pt. 1, pi. 373, figs. 3114-3115; 1917, op. cit., vol. 14, p. 176, fig. 4.— Hamp- 

 Bon, 1919, Novit. Zool., vol. 26, p. 92. 

 Melittia strigipennis Walker, 1864, List Lepidopterous Insects British Mus., 

 pt. 31, p. 17. 



Distribution: West China, Sikkim, Assam, Bombay, Burma, Java, 

 Gilolo. 



Material examined: Luzon, Mt. Makiling (Baker), 2 cT, Mindanao, 

 Surigao (B.P. Clark), 1 c^ (USNM). 



Adixoa Hampson, 1892 



Adixoa tomentosa Schultze, 1908 



Adixoa tomentosa Schultze, 1908, Philippine Journ. Sci., ser. A, vol. 3, p. 28, pi. 1, 

 figs. 2a-d.— Hampson, 1916, Novit. Zool., vol. 26, p. 100. 



Distribution : Philippine Is, 



Bemhecia Hiibner, 1819 



Bembecia fortisj new species 



Figures 347-348, 728-729 



Male, 13 mm. Head, thorax strongly denuded. Orbits white. 

 Pleurae and anterior legs purplish. Abdomen black, sternite 4 and 

 tip of anal tuft below, white. 



Forewing narrow, blackish purple, terminal area turning brownish. 

 An irregular, pale streak (probably partly due to rubbing) from base 

 along lower edge of cell and veins 3 and 4, to margin; an oval patch 

 of opaque wing membrane, devoid of scales, traversed by thick black 

 veins 5 and 6; this naked area edged below by vein 4, above by stalk 

 of 7+8, and extending from beyond cell to over 2/3 distance toward 

 termen; space beyond this naked spot mixed with whitish scales. 

 CUia blackish purple. 



Hindwing colorless hyaline, narrowly edged throughout with black, 

 veins colorless, rather beyond their bases becoming black. CUia black. 



Male genitalia: Tegumen slender, top with a pair of short hairy 

 knobs. Subscaphium weak. Anellus strong, boat-shaped, with a 

 long, single, ventrocaudal process with a hooked top, and a rostral 

 saccus-like process; aneUus lobes quadrate and sclerotized. Sacculus 

 rather long and slender. Valvae soldered at base together and not 

 separable, sclerotized and truncate, with a corona of sparse short 

 teeth; costa straight, with an apical sharp hook. Aedeagus strong, 

 tolerably straight, with a dilated top, formed of a sclerotized, spoon- 

 shaped ventral sclerite and a dentate and angulate double dorsal 

 process. 



Material examined: Mindanao, Zamboanga del Norte, Masawan, 

 trail to Mt. Malindang, 1290 m, rain forest, 5.VII.1958 (H.E. Milli- 



