410 Mr. A. G. Butler on new Genera 



Tarsopoda, n. gen. 



Wings with fringe longer than in JEgeria ; palpi more 

 porrect ; tibia? and tarsi of second and third pairs of legs 

 densely clothed to the end with broad compressed fan-shaped 

 scale-plumes. 



Type Tarsopoda remipes, n. sp. 



Wings above hyaline, veins black ; primaries rosy -tinted, 

 with costal margin purplish black ; a band crossing the wing 

 at end of cell and a linear outer and inner marginal border 

 bronzy brown ; fringe pale brown ; secondaries with a linear 

 outer marginal border and fringe as in primaries : body above 

 and below bronzy brown ; palpi and collar white ; coxa? of 

 front pair of legs steel-blue ; femora, tibia?, and tarsi missing ; 

 femora of second and third pairs of legs clay-colour, with 

 steel-blue reflections ; tibia? steel-blue at base, clothed with a 

 dense brush of bronzy brown hair-scales tipped with white 

 at the centre of the joint, and broadly golden yellow at termi- 

 nation of tibia in hind leg ; tarsus of second pair steel-blue at 

 base, densely clothed with a compressed tuft of long bronzy 

 brown hair-scales, barred with white at base ; tarsi of hind 

 legs with a similar tuft of hair-scales, but golden yellow at 

 base : wings below with all the dark portions bronzy golden. 



Expanse of wings 15 millimetres ; length of body 8 milli- 

 metres. 



Villa Nova {Bates). Type, B.M. 



Melittia, Hiibner. 

 (Eumallopoda : Wallengren.) 



Melittia lativnargo, n. sp. 



Melittia cyaneifera (part.), Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 07. n. 4 (1856). 



Wings hyaline, nervures black ; primaries above with the 

 costa, a band crossing the wing at the end of the cell, a broad 

 apical-marginal border, and the inner margin black-brown ; 

 fringe pale brown : secondaries with a linear black-brown 

 external border ; fringe pale brown ; interno-basal area clothed 

 with greenish testaceous scales : body above clay-colour, be- 

 coming ochraceous towards the head ; antenna? blackish above, 

 ferruginous below : pectus and first pair of legs ochreous ; 

 second pair brown, varied internally with ochraceous ; femora 

 of hind pair testaceous ; tibia? and tarsi clothed with long 

 remiform brown scales, varied above by a few red hair-scales ; 

 tibise below with a patch of pale greenish scales and two ter- 

 minal cream-tipped black-brown tufts. 



