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7. MELITTIA ANDRiENIPENNIS. 



Testacea ; antenna nigrce annulis albis, apice rufescentes ; thorax 

 nigro conspersus ; abdomen nigrum, segmentorurn marginibus 

 postieis albidis ; pedes postici pilis rufescentibus ; alee anticce 

 testacea, nigro conspersa, fascia apiceque nigris ; postica 

 limpida. 



Sesia Andrsenipennis, Boisduval, MSS. 



Testaceous. Antennae black, with slender white wings, not 

 longer than the thorax ; tips reddish. Thorax with black flecks. 

 Abdomen black, with a whitish band on the hind border of each 

 segment. Hind legs partly clothed with pale reddish hairs. Wings 

 with cupreous ciliae. Fore wings testaceous, flecked with black ; 

 band and tips black. Hind wings limpid. Length of the body 4^ 

 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



a. Cape. From M. Drege's collection. 



8. Melittia Bombyliformis. 



Purpureo-nigra ; caput apud oculos albidum ; palpi albidi, nigro 

 vittati ; antenna subtus apices versus fulva, thorax fulvus aut 

 purpureus ; pectus album ; abdomen fasciis albis, subtus fia- 

 vescens ; pedes anteriores flavi, postici pilis nigris fulvis et 

 flavescentibus densissime hirti fasciculoque argenteo ; ala lim- 

 pida, antica marginibus apice fasciaque nigro-purpureis. 



Var. Abdomen fulvo bifasciatum, subtus album ; pedes anteriores 

 nigri, vittis fasciisque albis et caruleis; postici pilis rufescen- 

 tibus et albis prasertim vestitL 



Sphinx Bombyliformis, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. 241, pi. 400, f. C. 

 Melittia Anthedonifoimis, H'ubn. Verz. Sc/unett. 128, 1374. 

 Trochilium Phorcus, Westiv. Cab. Orient. Ent. 62, pi. 30, f. 7. 



Purplish black. Head whitish about the eyes. Palpi whitish, 

 striped with black. Antennae tawny beneath towards the tips. 

 Thorax tawny. Pectus white. Abdomen with a white band on the 

 hind border of each segment ; under side pale yellowish. Anterior 

 legs pale yellow. Hind legs most thickly clothed to the tips with 

 black hairs; hairs towards the base tawny and yellowish ; a tuft of 

 silvery white hairs beneath. Wings limpid, with purplish cilia ; 

 fore wings with the borders, the tips and the usual band blackish 

 purple. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



