ASCHISTOPHLBPS. — OLIGOPHLEBIA. 



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and first tarsal joint with orange hairs mixed with a few silvery 

 scales ; the distal tarsal joints black. AVings yellow hyaline, the 



Fig. 129. — Aschistophleps lampropoda, o*. }. 



veins, margins, and a broad discocellular streak to fore wing 

 black ; ciha black ; inner margin of bind wing orange. 



Hah. Margarita, Assam, May {Doherty). Exp. 20 millim. Type 

 in coll. Elwes. 



382. Aschistophleps melissoides, n. sp. 



2 . Abdomen apiform. Palpi white ; head, thorax, and abdomen 

 black ; tibise and first tarsal joint of mid and hind legs clothed 

 with black, grey, and white hairs. Wings hyaline, with the veins 

 and margins black; fore wing with a black band occupying the 

 middle third of the wing, and sending three spurs outwards along 

 costa, vein 5, and inner margin. 



An excellent mimic of the smaller Indian bee, Apis indica. 



Hah. Eastern Pegu, 1000 feet, April {Doherty). Exp. 20 millim. 

 Type in coll. Elwes. 



Genus OLIGOPHLEBIA. 



Oligophlebia, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, ined. 



Type, 0. nigralba, Hmpsn. 



Range. Ceylon. 



Antennae minutely ciliated. Palpi upturned. Pore tibia with 

 a terminal tuft of hair ; mid legs with a small median and large 

 terminal tuft to the tibia, the first two joints of the tarsus tufted ; 

 hind tibia with a very large terminal tuft. Pore wing with veins 

 5 and 7 absent. Hind wing with the discocellulars erect; veins 

 3 and 4 stalked. 



Fig. 130. — Oligophlebia nigralba, $ . f. 



383. Oligophlebia nigralba, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, ined., pi. 157, fig. 21. 

 d 1 . Head and thorax black ; frons, genas, palpi below, and pectus 



