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Male. — Head and thorax gray brown ; palpi whitish. iVbdomen pale orange red along the 

 sides, light brown along the back, and pale gray beneath. Fore wings pale gray brown without any 

 metallic lustre. Hind wings transparent, fringes gray brown. Anterior pair of legs whitish, 

 mixed with light brown hairs, coxae white. Middle legs gray brown. Hind legs whitish outside ; 

 tibiae orange and tarsi black inside. 



Expanse : 25 mm. 



Habitat. — Kansas. 



Type : One male. Coll. Hy. Edwards. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



This species is allied to M. satyriniformis, but differs from it by having the 

 fore wings gray brown without any metallic lustre. The life-history is unknown. 



Melittia gloriosa Hy. Edw. 



Plate XXIX, Fig. 3, Female. 



Melittia gloriosa Hy. Edwards, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. Vol. Ill, 1880, p. 7 1 ; Grote, New Check 



List N. Am. Moths, 1882, p. 11 ; Riley, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, Vol. I, 1888, p. 85 ; 



Beutenmuller, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Vol. IV, 1892, p. 171 ; ibid. Vol. VIII, 1896, 



p. 216 ; ibid. Vol. IX, 1897, p. 216 ; ibid. Vol. XII, 1899, P- I 5°- 



Male. — Head gray on top, face white ; palpi white outside, yellowish above. Eyes brown with 



an olivaceous tint. Collar and thorax gray brown edged with orange posteriorly ; on each side in 



front is an olive yellow shade-mark. Antennae rufous, pectinations black. Abdomen with first, 



second, and fourth segments on top gray brown, orange at the sides ; third and fifth segments yellow ; 



last two segments and anal tuft blackish with a decided pale blue metallic lustre. The posterior 



edge of each segment also has a metallic blue margin composed of scales. Underside of abdomen 



whitish. Fore and middle femora and tarsi brownish, tibiae with pale orange hairs. Hind legs with 



long orange hairs inside ; black outside with a straw-yellow streak at the base of the tibiae. Fore 



wings opaque, gray brown, slightly tinted with olivaceous or orange. Underside washed with orange. 



Hind wings transparent, veins and inner margin orange, fringes gray brown ; underside same as 



above. 



Female. — Like the male, but the hind wings are opaque, bright orange above and below, with 

 the fringes brown. 



Expanse : Male, 40-45 mm. ; female, 40-58 mm. 



Habitat. — Southern California, Arizona. 



Type : One female, Coll. Hy. Edwards, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



This beautiful species may be known by its large size, robust form, and 

 contrasting colors. In the larval stage it lives in the roots of sumac {Rhus 

 laurina) and in the herbaceous climbing stems of big-root (Megarrhiza). 



Melittia grandis {Strecker). 



Plate XXIX, Fig. 4, Female. 



Trochilium grande Strecker, Can. Ent. Vol. XIII, 1881, p. 156. 

 Melittia grand e Grote, New Check List N. Am. Moths, 1882, p. n. 



Melittia grandis Beutenmuller, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Vol. VIII, 1896, p. 114; ibid. Vol. 

 XII, 1899, p. 151. 



