from the Philippine Islands. 189 



Hind femora without spine. 



Apex of the wings conspicuously darker JBigoti n. sp. 

 Apex of the wings concolorous or only slightly darker. 

 Thorax with three yellow crossbands. 



The third abdominal crossband is interrupted 



fiavifacies Bigot. 

 All the crossbands are not interrupted 



Semperi n. sp. 

 Thorax yellowish-sericeous anteriorly, with a longitudinal dark 

 stripe, bearing a longitudinal yellow line in the middle 



Meyeri Jaenn. 



NB. Are not mentioned in this Synopsis: 

 M. undulata Sn. v. Voll. (Japan), it has a red thorax, with a black 



design upon it; hind femora? 

 Zamiel Wk. (Borneo) , which , if the hind femora are without spine, 



should be placed near Sigoti n. sp. 

 vespoides Wk. (Singapore), with a very peculiar coloring of the ab- 



abdomen: ,,a broad luteous crossband, Avhich occupies rather more 



than half the hind part of the 2"^ segm. and the fore half of 



the S**.'' Hind femora? Is it a Milesia? 



Milesia Se7nperi n. sp. $Q. 



Ground -color of the face brownish -yellow, but concealed (except 

 a glabrous stripe in the middle) under a yellowish -white sericeousness; 

 oral margin, under the cheeks, dark brown or black. Front (?) gol- 

 den-yellow pollinose, except a glabrous, yellowish -brown space above 

 the antennae and a black, narrow stripe, connecting that space with 

 the black vertex. In the g, the anterior end of the vertical triangle 

 is yellowish sericeous, and the remainder black. Antennae brownish- 

 red, third joint brown; arista brown, reddish at base. Thoracic dorsum 

 dark brown, with three transverse, golden-sericeous stripes (at the an- 

 terior and posterior margins and in the middle); the first is slightly 

 interrupted in the middle. On the meso- and sternopleura two con- 

 nected pale golden -sericeous patches, forming an irregular vertical 

 stripe. Scutellum dark brown or black, with a narrow, yellowish edge. 

 Abdomen black, with yellow uninterrupted crossbands at the base of 

 segments 2, 3, 4; they are narrower in the middle (on the lateral 

 margin they occupy a little more than one third, in the middle a little 

 less than V* of the length of the segment); they are visible on the 

 ventral side of the segments also; in the female, the first and second 

 crossbands have a distinct notch on the posterior margin, in the middle, 



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