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the pointed apex and M', sinuate behind M', angulate at this vein, hinder margin 

 •deeply emarginate proximall^- of angle, the latter therefore produced backwards. 



Type : T. illustrts s])ec. nov. 



Nearest to J^ycospliinx R. & J. (1003), from which it difl'ers especially in the 

 eyes being covered by a brush of hair-scales as in Rkodoprusina and Plnjlloxiphia 

 R. & J. (1903). 



'Z. Typhosia illustris spec. nov. 



c?. Body creamy butf, washed with olive anteriorly. 



Wings, upperside : forewing creamy buff, somewhat shaded with clay, marked 

 •with olivaceous brown lines ; a double line crossing cell at base of M-, two parallel 

 lines on disc, dentate on M' and M-, the second crossing subcostals just distally of 

 fork; a liar R^ — M' nearly halfway to distal margin as remnant of a third line, 

 which is faintly indicated at costal margin, an evenly curved line from tip of wing 

 to R^ and continued from here straight across lower angle of cell to costal margin, 

 which it reaches not far from base. Hindwing rnfous-red, costal margin cream- 

 colour as far as covered by forewing, abdominal margin creamy buff, this border 

 widened forward distally and here irrorated with some brown scales ; fringe brown. 



Underside buff, irrorated with brown scales. Forewing rufous red from base 



to disc, a somewhat S-sbaped line from subcostal fork to hinder margin, crossing R' 

 about 3 mm. from cell, brown in front, reddish behind ; a second line about 3 mm. 

 from the first, parallel with it, but dentate, brown, a sharjily marked but thin brown 



line from apex to R^ joining here the second line. Hindwing slightly washed 



with red posteriorly at base, two parallel lines on disc, the first heavier than the 

 second, almost touching lower angle of cell, ending at costal edge in a brown spot. 



Genitalia : Tenth tergite almost completely divided into two processes which 

 stand separate proximally but are converging, each process with almost parallel 

 sides and ending suddenly in a very short brown point. Clasper without friction- 

 scales, long, pointed, nearly symmetrical ; harpe very short, basal, consisting of 

 -a small curved piece of brown chitiu. Penis-sheath without armature. 



Hah. Obuassi, Ashanti (G. E. Bergmann). 



Two (?c?. 



3. Macroglossum hirundo samoanum snbspec. nov. 



cJ. Smaller than .17. It. citiense and It. Itiruiu/o ; straight black-brown median 

 band of forewing distinct, but the grey band absent; yellow baud of hindwing as 

 broad as in /(. hirundo ; yellow side-spots of abdomen also as in the Tahiti form. 



llah. Samoa. 



One i. 



Connects ritiense with liirttmhi. 



4. Macroglossum hirundo confluens subspec. nov. 



? . Close to M. It. lifuense llothsch. (1894), from Lifu. Black-brown antemediau 

 band of forewing broader, almost completely merged together with the median 

 band ; yellow band of hindwing broader than black-brown basal area. A small 

 yellow side-spot on third alxlominal segment and a few yellow scales on the fourth 

 segment. 



IJab. New Hebrides. 



One ? . 



