MELANOSPHECIIA; HYPOMELITTIA; LENYRA. By M. Gaede. 
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places. Forewing blackish-brown, bluish-white scales in the marginal area. Short hyaline streaks in and 
below the cell. A small, above narrow hyaline area behind the cell. Silvery blue scales at the base at the 
inner margin. Hindwing hyaline, silvery blue scales at the inner margin. $ 40 mm. Queensland. 
M. formosana Mats. Thorax copper-brown, abdomen black, the segmental margins with bluish hair, formosana. 
Hind legs with black hair and a slight bluish or coppery gloss. Wings hyaline, veins and margins black. 
Hindwing with a yellowish gloss. 35 mm. Formosa. 
M. pellecta Swh. (95 g). Thorax reddish-yellow, with a green gloss. Abdomen black with dull grey pelleda. 
segmental margins. Hind legs black with a few grey hairs. Forewing black with insignificant hyaline streaks 
and grey scales. Hindwing hyaline, silvery blue at the inner margin. $ 38 mm. Rangoon. 
M. volatilis Swh. (95 g) differs from pellecta in the black thorax. Forewing without grey scales hind- volatilis. 
wing with a large silvery blue spot at the inner margin. Hind legs with more greyish hair. $ 24 mm. 
Rangoon. 
M. khmer Le Cerf (95 f). Body dark brownish-grey, abdomen with black median spots, under sur- khmer. 
face pale reddish-yellow. Hind legs black-haired with a reddish-yellow longitudinal stripe and some white 
spots. Forewing dark grey with a fine hyaline streak in and below the cell. White hair at the base at 
the inner margin. Hindwing hyaline, somewdiat yellowish at the inner margin. 28 mm. Cambodja. 
M. astarte Ww. Black with a leaden gloss; the collar, the first and last abdominal segments orange astarte. 
yellow. Hind legs black inside, orange outside with a few white hairs. Forewing black without hyaline 
streaks. Hindwing hyaline, veins orange. 25 mm. Central India. 
28. Genus: Melauospliecia Le Cerf. 
Palpi almost hairless. Proboscis normal. Antennae rather long, without a distinctly defined 
thickening at the end. Body short and strong. Hindlegs long-haired. Neuration of forewing: vein 6 absent; 
10 and 11 arise close together, then fused for a short distance. Hindwing without the distinct inner marginal 
lobe, vein 6 absent, 8 ends at % of the costal margin. Type: astra Le Cerf. 
M. auricollis Bothsch. ( = bouvieri Le Cerf) (95 g). Antennae reddish-yellow, body blackish-blue, all auricollis. 
the segmental margins beneath fine white. Hind tibiae black-haired with a white longitudinal line. Fore¬ 
wing lustrous blackish-blue, violet at the distal margin. Hindwing hyaline, broad violettish-black at the 
costal margin and in the cell. 
M. funebris Bothsch. (95 g). Antennae black above, red-brown below. Body black, only the tegulae funebris. 
red-brown. Hind legs black above, grey below, somewhat grey at the upper ends of the tarsi. Forewing 
blackish-brown, hindwing hyaline. Body somewhat steel-blue in the original figure. 8 25 mm. Dutch 
New Guinea. 
M. dohertyi Hmps. ,J$ody blackish-brown, with a bine lustre. Abdomen beneath with white segmental dohertyi. 
margins. Hind tibiae with white hair at the spurs. Forewing blackish-brown, a violet gloss in the marginal 
area. Hindwing hyaline. <$ 30 mm. Obi. 
M. atra Le Cerf (95 h). Body above bronze black, abdomen beneath with traces of light segmental atm. 
margins. Hind tibiae black-haired, tarsi black above, white below. Forewing bronze black, hindwing hyaline. 
$ 24 mm. Dutch New Guinea. 
29. Genus: Ifypomelittia Hmps. 
Palpi projecting beyond frons, moderately hairy. Proboscis normal. Antennae of $ plain, thickened 
at the ends. Abdomen narrower at the end with a small anal tuft. All the tibiae long-haired, the tarsi 
with hair-tufts at the segments. Forewing: all the veins free, 7 and 8 fused. Hindwing: vein 3 nearer at 5 
than at 2, 4 absent, 6 from the centre of the cross-vein. 
H. hyaloptera Hmps. Body black, metathorax with a few white scales. The last abdominal segments hyaloptera. 
with a blue reflection, the fifth margined with yellow scales. Hind legs with red and white hair. Wings 
hyaline. Costal margin of fore wing rather broad black as far as the cell-end, then narrower. The black 
cross-vein outside fadedly bordered with orange. Black streaks between the veins in the marginal area. 
Veins of hindwing yellow behind the cell; white hair at the inner margin. $ 18 mm. Burma. 
30. Genus: lienyra Wkr. 
Palpi thin, porrect. Antennae with a distinct club. Hind legs hairy as in Melittia. Vein 9 -j- 7 + 8 
of foiewing stalked. 
