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(damaged) brilliant golden-green, mixed with emerald-green; a broad 
streak along the costal margin, a narrower streak along the dorsum, and 
apparently the apical fifth of the wing, suffused with black, with a faint purple 
gloss; base of the wing with rough black scales: beyond these a moderate 
elongate hyaline patch below the cell, not reaching vein lb. Cilia ? (lacking). 
Hind wing brilliant emerald-green, along the terminal edge in the tornus, 
and in the middle of the disc from below the cell to the margin, becoming 
brilliant golden-green; three elongate hyaline patches beyond the base, 
pointed anteriorly, rounded posteriorly: in the cell, below the cell as far 
as vein lc, and between lb and la, respectively, the upper patch more 
shifted distad. Cilia (damaged), black. 
Bernhard Camp B, 100 m, April 12, 1938. One, damaged, specimen. 
Nearest to T. triscoliopsis Rothschild, from the Philippine Islands, but 
much smaller, and differing in colour, especially in that of the abdomen, 
and of the legs. 
Melittia Hubner, 1820 
Melittia Hubner, 1820, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 128. Walker, List Lep. Het. 
Brit. Mus., vol. 8, p. 66, 1856. Boisduval, Hist. Nat. Lep. Het., vol. 1, p. 468, 
1875. Hampson, Fauna Brit. India, Moths, vol. 1, p. 188, 202, 1892. Swinhoe, 
Catal. Lep. Het. Mus. Oxf., vol. 1, p. 37, 1892. Dudgeon, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. 
Soo., vol. 12, p. 41, 1898. Beutenmuller, Mem. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, part 6, 
pp. 231 — 232, fig. 8, 1901. Dyak, U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. No. 52, p. 364, 1902. Holland, 
Moth Book, p. 380, 1903; idem , 1920: Bartel in Seitz, Gross-Schmett., Pal., vol. 
2, p. 379, 1912. Hampson, Novit. Zool., vol. 26, pp, 50, 84, 1919. Dalla Torre & 
Strand, Lepid. Catal., part 31, p. 137, 1925. Fletcher, Mem. Agric. Ind., Ent., 
vol. 11, p. 136, 1929. Gaede in Seitz, Gross -Schmett., Indo- Austral., vol. 10, p. 
788, 1933. 
Key to the Papuan species of Melittia 
1. Posterior leg transversely banded with orange gigantea tigripes subspec. nov. 
Posterior leg laterally not banded with orange 2 
2. Posterior tibia mixed with deep crimson and white above 
amboinensis erythrina subspec. nov. 
Posterior tibia mixed with yellow and white above 
nepcha xanthodes subspec. nov. 
Melittia gigantea Moore, 1879 
Melittia gigantea Moore, 1879, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 413. Waterhouse, 
Aid. Ident. Ins., vol. 2, pi. 131, fig. 4, 1883. Cotes & Swinhoe, Catal. Moths India, 
vol. 2, p. 42, 1887. Hampson, Fauna Brit. India, Moths, vol. 1, p. 204, 1892. Novit. 
Zool., vol. 26, p. 90, 1919. Le Cerf in Oberthur, Etud. Lep. comp., vol. 14, p. 175 
5, 1917. Dalla Torre & Strand, Lepid. Catal., part 31, p. 144, 1925. Gaede in 
Seitz, Gross-Schmett., Indo-Austr., vol. 10, p. 790, pi. 95, scries f, 1933. 
Melittia humerosa Swinhoe, 1892, Catal. Lep. Het. Mus. Oxf., vol. 1, p. 38. 
Hampson, Novit. Zool., vol. 26, p. 90, 1919. Dalla Torre & Strand, Lepid. Catal., 
part 31, p. 144, 1925. 
Distribution: Punchab, Central China, Korea, Japan. 
