506 SIR GEORGE F. HAMPSON ON [Mar. 1 



lateral orange bands and the anal tuft orange below. Fore wing 

 hyaline, the veins and margins black- brown with a silvery gloss ; 

 a black-brown discoidal bar connecting the dark costal and inner 

 areas ; the rounded hyaline postmedial patch edged with orange. 

 Hind wing hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly black-brown ; 

 a slight black tooth at upper angle of cell ; cilia with a cupreous 

 tinge. 



Hah. N.E. Rhodesia, upper Luangwa valley (JVeave), 1 J type. 

 Exp. 22 mm. 



Lepidopoda fulvipes, sp. n. (PL XLI. fig. 11.) 



5 . Head and thorax dark brown with a leaden gloss ; palpi 

 yellow with a dark ring at extremity of 2nd joint ; neck with 

 yellow ring ; fore coxa? yellow ; mid tibiae except at base, the hind 

 tibiae and the tarsi except at extremities orange ; abdomen brown 

 with a leaden gloss and some yellow scalas, Lateral orange streaks 

 emitting teeth on to ventral surface, the anal tuft orange at ex- 

 tremity. Fore wing black-brown with a cupreous gloss, the cell 

 and a streak below it hyaline ; three short hyaline streaks beyond 

 the discoidal bar. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and margins 

 narrowly cupreous brown, the inner margin orange towards base. 



Hah. Congo, Katanga., Kambove (Weave), 1 $ type. Exp. 

 22 mm. 



Lepidopoda obliquizona, sp. n. (PL XLI. fig. 18.) 



Antennae of male bipectinate above, serrate and fasciculate 

 below. 



o* . Head, thorax, and abdomen black glossed with blue and 

 with some yellow mixed ; palpi yellow ; gulae and throat white ; 

 legs black -brown and yellow ; abdomen with lateral white bars. 

 Fore wing dark cupreous brown with some yellow scales ; a 

 triangular hyaline patch in middle of cell, its upper extremity 

 produced ; an oblique hyaline band crossed by dark streaks on 

 the veins from below costa towards apex to vein 3 just beyond 

 the cell. Hind wing hyaline, the base, veins, and margins 

 cupreous brown with some yellow scales, the hyaline extending 

 to inner margin at middle ; a blackish discoidal bar. 



Hah. ISLE. Rhodesia, L. Bangweolo distr. (Weave), 1 6 type. 

 Exp. 24 mm. 



Melittia auriplumia, sp. n. (PL XLI. fig. 12.) 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown with some white 

 and yellow scales ; irons with white lines at sides ; tibiae banded 

 with white, the fore tarsi white above, the mid tarsi ringed with 

 white, the hind tibiae and tarsi fringed with orange hair on outer 

 side ; abdomen ventrally banded with white. Fore wing dark 

 cupreous brown, the terminal area irrorated with white ; a 

 wedge-shaped hyaline patch in cell bifid at extremity, a, streak 

 below the cell and five streaks beyond it shortening towaids 



