MELITTIA. — LENYRA. 



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fulvous at base ; fore wings irrorated with brown and grey scales ; 

 the hyaline streaks as in eurytion ; cilia of both wings brown. 



Hab. Ceylon; Central India; Bombay; Ganjain; Moulmein ; 

 Sylhet ; Tenasserim ; Java. Exp., <3 32, $ 34-36 millim. 



395. Melittia nepcha, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 10; C. $■ S. no. 200. 



Melittia dorsatiformis, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 43, pi. cxxxix, fig. 21. 

 Melittia congruens, Sivinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 169, pi. vi ; 

 fig. 4. 



Differs from chalciformis in having the collar blue-black ; mid 

 tibia with blue bands ; hind legs with white hairs replacing the 

 yellow ones, with a few blue scales at joint of femur and tibia. 

 Fore wing with the hyaline streaks in and below the cell broader ; 

 the apical hyaline area typically large and having a narrow black 

 margin ; in the Pegu and Perak specimens it only just embraces 

 the fork of the subcostals, whilst in the Rangoon specimen, 

 congruens, it does not include the fork at all. 



Hab. Sikhim ; Nilgiris ; Rangoon ; Pegu ; Tenasserim ; Perak. 

 Exp. 28-32 millim. 



Genus LENYRA. 

 Lenyra, Walk. Cat. viii, p. 71 (1856). 



Type, L. astaroth, "Westw. 



Range. Sikhim ; Assam ; Sylhet. 



S . Head comparatively small, palpi slight and porrect ; antenna? 

 simple, thickened distally into a pronounced club. Thorax and 

 abdomen covered with small closely appressed scales. Pore and 

 mid pairs of legs without long hairs. Hind legs clothed with 

 thick tufts of hair of irregular length. Pore wing with the apex 

 much rounded ; vein 2 given off some way before the end of the 

 cell ; 9 stalked with 7 and 8. 



396. Lenyra astaroth, Westic. Cab. Or. Ent. p. 14, pi. vi, fig. 5; 

 C. $ S. no. 204. 



S. Entirely black, shot with brilliant metallic iridescent 



colours. 



Fig. 132. — Lenyra astaroth, $ . \. 

 Hind leg in Sikhim specimens clothed entirely with 



