from, the Philippine Islands. 191 



in others; no spines on the underside; tibiae reddish -yellow, the hind 

 pair brown in the middle; tarsi more or less dark brown, reddish at 

 tip. (In my female specimen the four anterior femora are brownish-red, 

 with very little black at the base.) Wings with a bright reddish-yellow 

 tinge; more saturate anteriorly; the apex, immediately beyond the an- 

 terior crossvein, is clouded with brown ; posterior margin pale grayish- 

 brown. — Three males and one female. 



NB. The coloration of the wings of this species must be very like 

 that of M. Zamiel Wk. (Borneo); but the black legs and antennae, 

 and the two abdominal yellow crossbands of the latter prove that it is 

 a different species. 



Milesia Ritsemae n. sp. Q. Face silvery, abdomen with 

 alternating black opaque and shining bluish-black crossbands; 

 a very narrow, interrupted reddish crossband on the second 

 segment; hind femora ivith a spine; wings brownish-yellow. — 

 Length 24 mm. 



Face black in the middle, silvery on the sides; front and vertex 

 black, frontal orbits yellowish-sericeous; sides of the antennal tubercle 

 yellowish, antennae brown. Thorax black, subopaque, with slight 

 bluish reflections on the sides of the dorsum and on the pleurae; with 

 three narrow, yellowish-sericeous crossbands; the first, between the hu- 

 meri ; the second along the suture ; the third in front of the scutellum ; 

 humeri whitish sericeous. Scutellum bluish -black, with a brownish- 

 yellow rim. A yellowish-white sericeous vertical band across the meso- 

 and sterno-pleura. Halteres reddish. Abdomen bluish-black, shining; 

 black opaque in the middle of the segments 2—4; first segment me- 

 tallic blue, shining; a narrow, obscurely reddish interrupted crossband 

 at the base of the second segment. Front and middle femora yellowish- 

 red, black at the base; hind femora bluish-black, reddish at tip; with 

 a spine on the underside; front and middle tibiae reddish-yellow, clo- 

 thed with a microscopic golden-yellow pubescence; hind tibiae brown 

 in the middle, reddish at the ends; tarsi brownish-red, more brownish 

 in the middle; the last pair dark brown. Wings with a brownish- 

 yellow tinge, more reddish-yellow anteriorly. — A single female. 



Milesia sp. (a single male), is very like M. conspicienda Wk. 

 (Celebes). The specimen of the latter (Q) mentioned by me in the 

 Enumer. etc. 56, and now in the Museum in Genoa, is smaller, the 

 yellow edge of the scutellum is less broad, the crossband on the se- 

 cond abdominal segment is a little broader; the longitudinal thoracic 

 yellow lines are somewhat obsolete anteriorly; the brown color of the 



