Mr. J. I{. Mall. all on Exotic Muscari.I;i\ iJT'J 



The spcciiiuMiH before tiic arc inirsoont sliiny and olj.scurcly 

 iritk'sci'iit in the males; those which I take to he fcinah'S 

 sliow no iridescence, and the elytral niurf^ins are only 

 ohseiirely and narrowly bordered with testaceous red. 

 Three out of four of tliese have remote jjunctures on 

 intervals 7, as well as on 3 and 5, but they are very faintly 

 detincil. 



The type or types from which '■^ tnrhatus^' was (hscribcd 

 were collected by Dr. (then Mr.) G. A. K. Marshall at 

 Salisbury, S. Rhodesia, and those now before me are all 

 from the same locality, collected l)y the Rev. J. A. O'Neil. 



Another ? distinct species from the same locality of the 

 same size and shajje is only differentiiited from " hir/j.i/us " 

 by details of the sculpture and coloration, but it will recpiire 

 much more material than 1 have now to decide u[)on its 

 relationship to the above. 



XIAW.—E.cutic ^luscaridie (Dij}tera).—Yn* 

 \l\ J. R. Malloch, Washington, D.C. 



Subfamily Puaoniinjs. 

 Myd<ea cuntraria (Walker). 



Stein ])laccd this species in his key to the Oriental species 

 of Mt/fitea, but {jjave it the new name sjnnijjcs, with cuntraria, 

 "Walker, in i)arenthesis. He did uot, so far as I know, 

 describe the sjiecies. The specimens 1 have before me are 

 in poor condition, but the species is evidently very close to 

 typical Myilcea. The fourth vein is slightly curved forward 

 apically, and in no respect does it ditl'cr very much from 

 Ali/iospila, R.-D., the nearest relative to Mi/dwa. Without 

 better nmterial of both sexes I do not care to give a definite 

 opinion as to the generic position. 



The hind femora have very short, closely-placed bristles on 

 the antero-ventral surface apically. 



Locality, Singapore (//. J/. Ridley). 



Ife/ina riijithorax (Stein). 



A rather consjjieuous species, with black head and abdo- 

 men and the thora.x reddish-yellow with a black mark on 

 metauotum. In the female before me the femora arc 



• For Part VI., sec Ann. .<c Mrnr. Xnt. Hist. (W v.. .Tnlv I'VJi?, 

 pp. 132-144. 



