170 Colonel Charles Swmhoe on the 



thorax near the base. Abdomen with the sides and anal portions 

 dark greenish black ; anal tuft deep black. Wings hyaline, with 

 pale purplish brown veins and bands. Fore wings with a costal 

 band, a thinner band on hinder margin, a band across the wing at 

 the end of the cell, and a broad marginal band, circling on its 

 inner side from the hinder angle round to the costa at one-eighth 

 from the apex. Hind wings with only the marginal lines ; fringe 

 on both wings pale purplish brown. Underside wings as above, 

 vvdth a golden tinge. Face and collar white. Thorax pale purphsh 

 brown, with pale luteous marks. Abdomen and anal tuft chrome 

 yellow, with black sides. Legs pale purplish brown, with luteous 

 streaks ; spurs as in M. pellecta, but all of them unusually stout 

 and long ; middle tibiae with some brown and luteous hairs on the 

 lower half; hind tibiae densely clothed with long reddish hairs ; 

 hind tarsi with long black hairs, with a white patch. Expanse of 

 wings, 1^ inch. Length of body to tip of anal tuft, f^ inch. 



Kangooii, -July, 1888. In coll. Swmhoe, 

 Its peculiar antennae and length of spurs separates it 

 from any other species known to me. 



33. Melittia ? volatilis, n. sp. (PI. VI., fig. 3). 



Antennae black, reddish at the tips, thin, clavate, falcate. Palpi 

 black, clothed with white hairs, curved, rising as high as the 

 vertex ; third joint small. Eyes half bronze and half |black, as in 

 M. congruens. Collar black. Thorax metallic, lilac purple, body 

 greenish black, the segments edged with pm-e white ; anal tuft 

 black. Fore wings black, round at the tips, almost entirely 

 clothed, except for a hyaline streak below the cell, another along 

 the outer half of the cell, and a small spot towards the hinder 

 angle, in a line with the lower streak. Hind wings hyaline ; veins 

 and marginal lines black, and a sUght black thickening on the 

 upper half of the vein closing the cell, and some glistening pale 

 cerulean blue scales at the base, where there is a tuft of hairs of the 

 same colom* ; under side wings as above, but Avith a glistening 

 blue tint. Face white. Thorax and abdomen black, some white 

 marks on the former. Legs black, with white stripes ; middle 

 tibiae sparsely clothed with short black bristles ; hind tibiae, with 

 longish black hairs, with two white spots, and with white tips to 

 some of the hairs ; spurs, as in M. pellecta, but slender, and 

 the short ones very slender and short. Expanse of wings, 1 inch. 

 Length of the body to tip of anal tuft, |*g inch. 



Eangoon, August, 1888. In coll. Swinhoe. 



