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on the underside of both wings there is a white basal line; and the 
abdomen beneath has the last four segments obscurely marked with» 
dull ferruginous, in S. ventralis these markings are very much larger, 
very prominent, and pale gamboge-yellow. 
I have named this handsome moth ( which is unique) after Mr. 
T. A. Hauxwell, Deputy Conservator of Forests, who is an enthusiastic 
collector of birds and Lepidoptera. It is a beautiful mimic of the 
very commen large blue carpenter bee, Xylocopa uuripennis, Lepeletier, 
a male of which I have figured—for the first time—for comparison, on 
Plate BE, Fig. 23. Colonel Bingham tells me that he has also 
obtained this new moth in the Ataran Valley, Central Tenasserim. © 
Family SESIIDA. 
21. MELITTIA BINGHAMII, n. sp. Plate EH, Fig. 24g. 
Hasrrat: Thandaung, 4,000 ft., Tenasserim, Burma. 
Expanse: @, 1'4 inches (35 millim.). 
Dsscrirtion: Mane. Upperstpe, both wings hyaline, colourless, 
the veins and the markings black ;.ciléa fuscous, with a slight dull 
ferruginous tinge. vrewing with all the margins narrowly black, 
the apex and outer margin rather broader than the costa and inner 
margin ; a narrow black bar from the costa to the inner margin at the 
end of the discoidal cell, giving off a short tooth into the cell; the 
basal two-thirds of the wing with two hyaline interspaces; the outer 
third of the wing with six, the second from the costa small. Hénd- 
wing unmarked. Antenne black above, dull ochreous below. Palpi 
pale yellow mixed with black hairs. Thoraw above clothed with 
shining “old gold” sete, beneath pale yellow. Abdomen above 
deep black, with narrow yellowish segmental bands, beneath pale 
yellow. Foreleg yellow. Midleg has the femur yellow, the tibia black 
with a few iridescent hairs, white in some lights, amethystine in others, 
tarsi black. Hindleg greatly developed, with very long hairs, the 
femur above black, with a thick outer mane of yellow hairs, 
the tibia and tarsi deep black, the leg beneath black, with three 
tufts of differently-coloured hairs, the anterior one is entirely 
iridescent opaline, the middle one is yellow with a few opaline 
scales, the posterior one entirely yellow. 
‘Apparently nearest to M. kulluana (the M. kulwana of Hampson) 
from Kullu (the Kulu Valley in the Western Himalayas), from which 
