70 CATALOGUE OF 



Var. p. Anterior legs black, with pale bands. Hind legs with 

 very few pale hairs. 



Var. y. Thorax purple. Prothorax with silvery white borders. 

 Abdomen with two broad tawny bands ; the first interrupted ; under 

 side white. Anterior legs black, with silvery white and blue stripes 

 and bands ; hind legs with more reddish and white than black 

 hairs. 



a. East Indies. From Archdeacon Clerk's collection. 



b. North India. From Mr. James' collection. 



c. North India. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



d. North India. From Capt. Parry's collection. 



9. Melittia Eurytion. 



Nigra ; caput et thorax viridescente fulvo pilosa ; caput apud 

 oculos et antice albidum ; palpi albidi, nigro vittati ; antenna 

 apice ferruginece ; pectus album ; abdominis segmenta argenteo 

 marginata ; pedes albo vittati et fasciati ; postici densissime 

 vestiti ; alee limpidce, antica marginibus fascia apiceque 

 cupreo-nigris albo conspersis. 



Trochilium Eurytion, Westiv. Cab. Orient. Ent. 62, pi. 30, f. 5 



Black. Head and thorax with greenish tawny hairs. Head 

 whitish about the eyes and in front. Palpi whitish, with black 

 stripes. Antennas with ferruginous tips. Pectus white. Abdomen 

 with a silvery white band on the hind border of each segment. 

 Legs with white stripes and bands. Hind legs most thickly 

 clothed. Wings limpid, with cupreous-black cilia. Fore wings 

 with the borders, the band, and the tips cupreous-black, the latter 

 with a few white speckles. Length of the body 5 — 7 lines ; of the 

 wings U — 15 lines. 



a. North India. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



b. Silhet. From Mr. Argent's collection. 



c. North India. From Mr. James collection. 



10. Melittia Astarte. 



Nigro-cenea ; caput necnon abdomen basi apiceque ochracea ; pedes 

 ochracei, postici pilosissimi ; ales ochraceo ciliatce, anticce 

 nigro-cenece, posticos limpidce. 



Trochilium Astarte, Wesiiv. Cab. Orient. Ent. 6!, pi. 30, f. 4. 



Central India. 



