PAHA MK I. ISA. — PSEUD MELISA. 83 



*299 a. Paramelisa lophura. 



Paramelisa lophura, Auriv. Ark. f. Zool. iii. 1. p. 13, pi. i. f. 2 (1905). 



c? . Head, teguke, and pectus orange-yellow ; antennae with the 

 shaft white above ; thorax dark brown ; tibia? brown, their extremities 

 and the tarsi white ; abdomen with the 1st two segments dirk 

 brown, the 3rd segment yellowish white emitting a dorsal band on 

 4th segment, the remaining segments black with orange lines at 



Fig. 15. — Paramelisa lophura, J. \. 



middle of segments and yellowish white terminal lines, the anal 

 tuft orange, the ventral surface yellowish white. Fore wing 

 uniform brown. Hind wing orange-yellow, the costal area suffused 

 with brown hair. Underside of fore wing with some orange below 

 base of cell ; hind wing orange, the lobe fuscous brown. 



Hah. W. Africa, Congo, Mukimbungu, type f 6 in Mus. 

 Stockholm. Exp. 50 millim. 



*299 b. Paramelisa lophuroides. 



Paramelisa lophuroides, Oberth. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. Ixxix. p. 463, pi. 17. 

 f. 13 (1911). 



d • Head and thorax brown, the vertex of head yellow, the 

 antenna? pale yellow, the teguke yellow at tips ; tarsi with the 1st 

 joint crimson above, the extremities yellowish white ; abdomen 

 brown with some red hair at base, the 3rd segment yellowish white, 

 the following segments with narrow red bands, the anal tuft black- 

 brown. Fore wing uniform brown. Hind wing ochreous yellow. 



Hah. Cameroons, Johann Albrecht's Hbhe (Conradt). Exp. 

 42 millim. This species is unknown to me. 



Genus PSEUDMELISA. 



Type, 



Pseudmelisa, Hmpsn. P. Z. S. 1910, p. 391 chalybsa. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi small, porrect ; antenna? of female laminate ; tibia? 

 with minute terminal pairs of spurs ; abdomen very elongate. Fore wing 

 narrow and elongate, the termen very obliquely curved ; vein 3 from beforo 



