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3. Crocisa quinquefasciata. 



Female. Length 5 lines. — Black, decorated with spots and mark- 

 ings of white pubescence ; the abdomen with fine narrow fasciae 

 of white pubescence, which are slightly interrupted in the middle. 

 The head with white pubescence. The prothorax, three spots 

 on the mesothorax anteriorly, two posteriorly, a narrow line 

 over the tegulae, the sides of the metathorax, and a large patch 

 beneath the wings, of white pubescence ; the legs have a short 

 white pubescence ; wings fuscous, with hyaline spots in the mar- 

 ginal and submarginal cells ; the hinder wings hyaline at their 

 base ; the scutellum produced over the base of the abdomen, its 

 posterior margin deeply notched. The fasciae on the abdomen re- 

 curved up the lateral margins. 



Hab. Madagascar. 



MELISSA, Smith. 



1. Melissa insignis. 



Female. Length 8 lines. — Deep blue, with fusco-hyaline wings, the 

 nervures black, tegulae blue. The face with a little white pubes- 

 cence on the sides opposite the insertion of the antennae, a fringe of 

 the same on the posterior margin of the vertex ; that on the labrum 

 and cheeks is black. On the' front of the thorax, on the meta- 

 thorax, and beneath, the pubescence is black, as is also that on the 

 legs ; the scutellum bituberculate, the tubercles very prominent ; 

 the thorax and legs in certain lights with a purple lustre. Abdo- 

 men with a green and violet lustre ; the apical segment with light 

 brown pubescence above ; beneath purple ; the third, fourth, and 

 fifth segments with a small triangular white pubescent spot at 

 their margins laterally. 



Male. The same length as the female. — Blue, with green reflections. 

 The clypeus, a spot on the sides of the face, opposite the insertion 

 of the antennae, the margin of the vertex, the thorax in front, the 

 metathorax, and the sides with bright yellow pubescence ; the disk 

 of the mesothorax and the tegulae vivid green ; wings as in the 

 female ; the legs black, with tints of blue and purple : the posterior 

 tibiae with a tuft of black pubescence at their apex beneath. 

 The first and second segments of the abdomen with a small spot of 

 yellow pubescence on their apical margins laterally ; beneath, the 

 third and fourth segments with an oblong snow-white spot late- 

 rally. 



Hab. S. Mexico, Orizaba, 



