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S. xylocoplformis Wlcr. (77 h). Exactly as bicolor, but the abdominal end not orange, tibia! spurs xylocopi- 
white. 28 mm. Natal. for mis. 
S. ellenbergeri Le Gerf (77 i). Body black. Wings black, with a green gloss, without a hyaline spot, ellenbergeri. 
Antennae above in the terminal halves white. Proboscis exceptionally normal. 22 mm. Ogowe. 
Sc melanochalcia Le Gerf (77 i). Body bluish-black. Wings greenish-black. Hindwing at the inner melanochal- 
margin somewhat brownish. Antennae above bluish-black, not white. $ 25 mm. Rhodesia, Delagoa Bay. 
34. Genus: Cryptomlma Btlr. 
Proboscis feeble. Palpi oblique. Antennae long, behind the middle feebly thickened. Hind tibiae 
with 2 unequal pairs of spurs, 1st tarsal joint very long and thick. Abdomen with a long appendage. In the 
forewing veins 2 and 3, 10 and 11 close together, 7 + 8 stalked. In the hindwing veins 3 and 5 from the lower 
cell-angle, 6 below the upper angle. 
Cr, hampsoni Btlr. (77 h). Glossy steel-blue, antennal tips and one ring on the abdomen beneath white, hampsoni. 
Eorewing with a short hyaline streak in the base of the cell and below it. The oval distal hyaline area brownish, 
only semi-diaphanous. Hindwing with a hyaline spot at the base. 30—35 mm. Cameroon. Ogowe, Uganda. 
35. Genus: Pseudomelittia Le Gerf. 
By the legs similar to the genus Melittia. Antennae longer, thinner. In the fore wing vein 4 nearer 
to 5 than to 3, 7 + 8 stalked on half their length, 10 and 11 distantly separated at the base. In the hindwing 
veins 3 and 4 from the same place, 5 from the middle of the cross-vein, 7 absent. Type: berlandi Le Gerf. 
P. andraersipennis Wlcr. Thorax and forewing brown, abdomen black with white segmental margins, andraeni- 
Forewing with a black cross-vein and apex, hindwing hyaline. Hind tibiae with pale red spots in the hair. pennis. 
18 mm. Cape Colony. 
P. berlandi Le Gerf (77 i). Blackish-brown. Palpi and antennae outside white, head with white and berlandi. 
yellow places. Thorax in front with a yellow line, at the base of the forewing with a white dot. Abdomen 
laterally with white scales, anal tuft below reddish-yellow. Eorewing hyaline, with a steel-blue gloss, narrowly 
margined with dark brown, cross-vein broad, distal hyaline area with yellow scales at its interior edge. Hindwing 
narrowly margined. Hind tibiae bluish black, above with 2 reddish-yellow spots, beside them white and yellow 
spots, spurs in front yellowish-white. Tarsi reddish-yellow and white with a black terminal joint. J 24 mm. 
East Africa. 
Po cingulata n. sp. (77 i). Body black. Frons and the 2nd and 3rd palpal joints in front white, the cingulata. 
rest black. Antennae preapically above red-brown. Anterior coxae and tarsi whitish yellow. Hind tibiae and 
tarsi as in berlandi. Abdomen on the 2nd and 4th segments with broad, on the 7th narrower yellow bands, 
beneath the last segments finely edged with white. Forewing similar as in the species of Monopetalotaxis, cross¬ 
vein outside red like the apex at veins 7 and 8. Cross-vein of hindwing in front black. $ 20 mm. Benue District. 
Type in the Berlin Museum. 
36. Genus: Parantlirene Hbn. (Sciapteron Stdgr.) 
Palpi thin, erect, proboscis stunted. Antennae of and $ ciliated, without the apical pencil. Tibiae 
hairless, spurs long and thin. In the forewing veins 2 and 3 close together, 7 + 8 stalked. In the hindwing 
as in Pseudomelittia. Type: tabaniformis Bolt, from Europe. 
I. Antennae of $ shortly bipectinate. 
P. propyria Hmps. Head and tegulae reddish-yellow. Thorax black, patagia at the end reddish- propyria. 
yellow. Abdomen bluish-black, anal tuft reddish-yellow and black. Hind tibiae and tarsi reddish-yellow, spurs 
white. Forewing hyaline. Costal margin fiery red, median vein black and red, cross-vein broad red, margined 
with black. A short hyaline streak above the base and veins 7, 8. Distal margin as far as below vein 6 red. 
Hindwing narrowly margined with black, beneath at the costal margin red. <$ 40 mm. Rhodesia. 
In the other species the forewing is not hyaline, but black with a metal gloss. 
P. anthrax Le Gerf (77 h). Body dull black. Antennae apically below red-brown. Forewing bluish- anthrax. 
black. Hindwing below the cel) as far as vein 2 hyaline, above it only in the distal third, the rest bluish- 
black. $ 40 mm. Sierra Leone. 
P. thalassina Hmps. Body black, with a bluish-green gloss, frons and palpi partly white. Forewing thalassina. 
bluish-green, at the distal margin with a violet gloss. Hindwing bronze green. Distal margin from vein 5 to 
