196 SESIIDX 



brown, the outer margin with a I road brown band. Hind wing 

 hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly brown. 



Hob. Karen Hills (Fea) ; Bernardmyo (Doherty}. E.vp. 28 millim. 

 Type in coll. Moore. 



Genus SESIA. 



Sesia, Fabr. Si/st. Ent. p. 547 (1775); Schrank, Fauna Boica, ii, 1, 



p. 153 (1801). 

 ^Egeria, Fabr. lllig. Mag, Ins. vi, p. 288 (1807). 



Type, S. tipuliformis, Clerk, Europe. 



Range. All the regions, except Australasian. 



Palpi slightly longer and more slender than in the preceding 

 genera. Hind wing with the discocellulars oblique, the venation 

 otherwise as in Sciapteron. Anal tuft large in the male. 



In the typical section the antenna are heavily ciliated in the male. 



SECT. II. The antennae simple in the male. 



368. Sesia quinquecincta, n. sp. 



Head and thorax blue-black; abdomen black, with five broad 

 yellow bands ; anal tuft and legs blue-black, the latter slightly 

 fringed with white ; coxae of legs white. Wings hyaline ; the 

 veins, margins, and cilia smoky brown : cost a and discocellular 

 streak of fore wing blue-black. Hind tibiae not fringed with hair. 



Huh. Bernardmyo, Burma, 6000 feet, May (Doherty). Exp. 

 24 millim. Type in coll. Eh 1 



369. Sesia minuta, Sicinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 171, pi. vi, fig. 5. 



$ . Antennae black ; palpi ochreous ; frons with the centre grey 

 surmounted by white ; collar whitish ; thorax with a few orange 

 scales; abdomen blark, the 2nd, 4th, and 5th segments with 

 yellow bands above ; all the segments white banded below. Legs 

 black and ochreous. Fore wing hyaline with opal tints, the veins 

 and margins dark, and the whole outer area suffused with purplish 

 fuscous ; a prominent orange discocellular band. Hind wing 

 hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly black. Underside of 

 fore wing with the basal part yellow. Hind tibiae slightly hairy. 



Ilab. Rangoon. Exp. 24 millim. 



370. Sesia unicincta, n. sp. 



Differs from minuta in the third segment of the abdomen only 

 having a yellow band. Fore wing with the margins narrowly 

 black ; the area beyond the cell hyaline, with a few yellow scales 

 beyond the discocellulars and near the apex. 



'Hob. Karen Hills (Fta). Exp. 18 millim. Type in coll. Moore. 



