198 



SESIID.f:. 



375. Sesia flavipes, Hmpsn. 111. Net. ix, ined., pi. 157, figs. ]9, 20. 



Metallic blue-black ; palpi, collar, and tibiae orange. Abdomen 

 with narrow segm^ntal orange bauds expanding into wide lateral 

 patches ; aual tut't blue-black above, orange below. Wings hyaline ; 

 the margins, discocellulars, and veins purple-black : fore wing with 

 the margins broadly black, and nearly the whole outer area dark 

 with narrow yellow streaks between the veins. Female with the 

 abdominal orange bands broader. * 



Hab. Bangalore; Punduloya, Ceylon. Ed-p., J 16, $ 14milliin. 



Genus ADIXOA, nov. 



Type, A. alterna, Walk. 



ItaiK/e. S. India; Tenasserima. 



c? . Antenna? with fascicles of cilia : palpi as in Sciapteron. 

 Fore wing with veins 7 and 8 not stalked ; the venation otherwise 

 as in tVc'tnjtti'roH-. Fore legs with a strong tibial tuft of hair; the 

 other pairs but slightly hairy. 



376. Adixoa alterna, Wlk. Cat. xxxi, p. 10; C. $ S. no. 192. 



d . Purple-brown ; frons, collar, tegulae, and metatborax yellow. 

 Abdomen with lateral yellow spots on the first and fourth seg- 



Fig. 125. Adixoa alterna, tf. j. 



inents, one each on the vertex of the second and seventn 

 segments : anal tuft black, the base of the tuft above and beloxv 

 yellow. Fore wing purple-brown suffused with yellow ; a hyaline 

 streak in the cell and four beyond. Hind wing hyaline ; the veins, 

 margins, and discocellular band purple-black. 

 ll(0>. Coimbatore, S. India. E&p. 28 milliin. 



377. Adixoa auricollum, n. sp. 



<$ . Palpi, antenna?, head, thorax, and abdomen blue-black ; 

 frons white, heW fringed with white behind ; collar fringed with 

 orange ; abdomen with orange bands on three last segments and 

 on all the segments below. Legs blue-black ; fore leg with the 

 tarsi white ; hind leg with some pale hairs on tibia. Fore wing 

 blue-black, with hyaline spaces in and below the cell, and a small 

 quadrind space beyond. Hind wing hyaline, with broad blue-black 

 margins and discocellular band. 



Hab. Tenasserim Valley (Doherty). Evp. 25 millim. Type in 

 coll. Druce. 



