198 SESIID.3E. 



375. Sesia flavipes, Hmpsn. 111. Set. ix, ined., pi. 157, figs. 19, 20. 



Metallic blue-black ; palpi, collar, and tibia? orange. Abdomen 

 with narrow segmental orange bands expanding into wide lateral 

 patches ; anal tuft blue-black above, orange below. Wings hyaline ; 

 the margins, discocellulars,and veins purple-black : fore wing with 

 the margins broadly black, and nearly the whole outer area dark 

 w 7 ith narrow yellow streaks between the veins. Female with the 

 abdominal orange bands broader. 



Hah. Bangalore; Punduloya, Ceylon. Exp., <$ 16, $ Mmillim. 



G-enus ADIXOA, nov. 



Type, A. alterna, Walk. 



Range. S. India ; Tenasserima. 



S . Antennae with fascicles of cilia : palpi as in Sciapteron. 

 Fore wing with veins 7 and 8 not stalked ; the venation otherwise 

 as in Scicepteron. Fore legs with a strong tibial tuft of hair ; the 

 other pairs but slightly hairy. 



376. Adixoa alterna, Wlk. Cat. xxxi, p. 10; C. # S. no. 192. 



<5 . Purple-brown ; frons, collar, tegulae, and metathorax yellow. 

 Abdomen with lateral yellow spots on the first and fourth seg- 



Fig. 125. — Adixoa alterna, tf . |. 



ments, one each on the vertex of the second and seventn 

 segments ; anal tuft black, the base of the tuft above and below 

 yellow. Fore wing purple-brown suffused with yellow; a hyaline 

 streak in the cell and four beyond. Hind wing hyaline ; the veins, 

 margins, and discocellular band purple-black. 

 Hah. Coimbatore, S. India. Exp. 28 millim. 



377. Adixoa aiiricollum, d. sp. 



J . Palpi, antennae, head, thorax, and abdomen blue-black ; 

 frons white, head fringed with white behind : collar fringed with 

 orange ; abdomen with orange bands on three last segments and 

 on all the segments below. Legs blue-black ; fore leg with the 

 tarsi white ; hind leg with some pale hairs on tibia. Fore Ming 

 blue-black, with hyaline spaces in and below the cell, and a small 

 quadrifid space beyond. Hind wing hyaline, with broad blue-black 

 margins and discocellular band. 



Hah. Tenasserim Valley (Doherty). Exp. 25 minim. Type in 

 coll. Druce. 



