150 Sir G. F. Hampson on 



Hab. Gold Coast, Ashanti, Obuassi {Pergman, Graham), 

 2 ? ; S. Nigeria, Lagos (Graham), 1 $ type. Exp. 26- 

 36 mm. 



Melittia rvfodorsa, sp. n. 



$ . Head brown mixed with whitish ; palpi white ; antennae 

 black, the club reddish below ; thorax red-brown, the 

 shoulders fuscous ; legs clothed with tufts of black-brown, 

 rufous, and white hair ; abdomen black -brown with yellowish- 

 white segmental lines, the ventral surface white. Fore wing 

 black-brown irrorated with golden-yellow scales, especially 

 on terminal area; a hyaline yellow streak below the cell, 

 wedge-shaped patch in the cell, slightly bifid at extremity, 

 and large patch beyond the cell formed by five streaks in the 

 interspace, the streak above base of veins 6. 7 short. Hind 

 wing hyaline yellow, the veins and margins narrowly black- 

 brown, the lobe on inner margin black-brown irrorated with 

 yellow, the cilia brown. 



Hab. Cape Colony, 1 £ type. E\rp. 32 mm. 



Tinthia vilrifasciata, sp. n. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown mixed with 

 some white and red-brown, the last with more or less diffused 

 yellowish-white dorsal bands except towards base; palpi 

 wliite except at tips ; frons white at sides ; throat white j 

 coxae and femora mostly white, the tibiae and tarsi with tufts 

 of rufous and black hair, the tarsi banded with white ; ven- 

 tral surface of abdomen white except at extremity. Fore 

 wing reddish and fuscous brown irrorated with white, espe- 

 cially in end of cell and on terminal area ; a large black 

 annulus beyond the discocellulars, more or less incomplete 

 above and below and filled in with rufous ; a diffused black 

 subterminal line. Hind wing black-brown slightly irrorated 

 with white, the cell and the interspaces below it to near 

 termen hyaline. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Umtali (Marshall), 3 ? type. Exp. 

 20-24 mm. 



Tinthia xanthophora, sp. n. 



Hind wing with vein 3 separate from both 2 and 4, 6 from 

 well below upper angle of cell. 



£ . Head, thorax, and abdomen black j neck with white 

 ring ; abdomen with more or less white on dorsum of medial 

 segments and on anal tuft above ; palpi white in front and 



