( 629 ) 

 ">'i'.>. Macroglossum alluaudi. 



*.)/<(rmfjliiss(i (ilhiiiiiili JosiTims, liuU. S,„-. F.nt. Frinire p. .VJ (18'.t3) (Seychelles ;— Mus. Paris) : id., 



Ami. Ror. Eiif. France p. 430. n. 21. t. 15. f. 1 ( ? ) ( 1894) (Mah(', Seychelles : descr. of larva). 

 Man-nr/hssa (?) aUminh "All." (!), Kirby, Nov. Zooi.. i. p. P'.). n. 64 (1804). 



(? ? . A iieculiiir iusect, with clirome-yellow liiiulwings, which are sli<^litl\- 

 shiulcd with orauge distally ; base of hiiulwiiig not brown, fringe brown : somptiiucs 

 a narrow brown marginal liaml. Abdomen with tliree orange-yellow side-spots ; 

 two discal lines of forewiiig heavy, straight, no stigma ; beloir, basal half of 

 forewing, cell excepted, and the greater part of the liindwing washed with pale 

 chrome-yellow. 



Not dissected. 



Larva shortly described in Aiui. Soc Ei/f. Frrnu-i', l.r. 



llalj. Mahe, Seychelles. Type in Mns. Paris ; anotlier specimen in coll. 

 Joannis : a third in coll. Staudiiiger. 



o'lo. Macroglossum soror spec. nov. (PI. TV. f. 1ft, ?). 



?. Dift'ers from .1/. inili-n.-^ m tiie following points: abdomen witli fonr large 

 side-patches which are not separated from one another and are of a deep ferrnginons 

 colonr ; stigma of forewing rather large, first antemedian line straighter, second 

 more distal, tonching stigma ; hindwing orange-rnfons, shaded with ferrnginons 

 distally, without a yellow band, base not darker than middle of wing, fringe pale 

 lirown. From alluaudi it is distinguished by the almost obliterated first discal 

 line of the forewing, the curved second discal line, the conspicuous stigma, the 

 much deeper coloured hindwing and under surface, and tiie four large abdominal 

 side-patches. 



Ihih. Bourbon (tsle de France), 1 ? in Mus. Paris, tfipc ; another in the 

 Dublin Museum. 



iifil. Macroglossum milvus. 



*.1/«'-)w//".«« milnis Boisduval, Fain,, M,„l. H,./nl,. p. 78. n. 1. t. 10. f. 3 (18.33) (Bourbon: 

 Mauritius ;— coll. Charles OberUiiir) : Walk., List Lep. Ins. B. M. viii. p. 90. n. 10 (18.^i;) 

 (•'Madagascar" ex err.); Boisd., Spec. Gen. Uji. Het. i. p. .336. n. 7 (1875) (Bourbon: 

 Mauritius) ; Butl., Tnuix. Zuu) . Sue. Loud. iv. p. 524. n. 7 (1877) ("Madagascar" alia spec.) : 

 MabiUe, .iu„. Sue. Eiif. Franr, p. 289 (1879) ("Madagascar " ex err.) ; Saalm., Lep. Mail. p. lis. 

 n. 269 (1884) (Maurit. ; Bourb. ; "Madag." tx err.): ViD.=., Pap. Buurimn p. 13 (1891): 

 Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 631. n. 30 (1892) (" Madagasc." ex err.). 



Marraghissa pandora, Guerin {mm Fabricius, 1793), Iciiii. liegiie Aniin. ii. p. 49.') ( 1844) ( ^inilnm). 



Maeroglnssa mylrus (!), Ment'tries, Enuin. Corp. Anim. Pelr., Lep. p. 95. n. 1582(1857) (Mauritius). 



.tfueroglosna nflms (!), Rothschild, Nov. Zool. i. p. 66 (1894). 



S ? . Head and thorax witli a darker mesial line ; mesotlioracic tegula cliestnut 

 laterally in fresh specimens. Abdomen with fonr orange side-patches, of which the 

 tirst is the smallest. Hindwing briglit tawny, without dark border ; an antemedian 

 ill-defined yellow band ; extreme base brownish black. Underside of thorax clayisii 

 vinaceous cinnamon ; palpus more grey, with a purer white side-stripe ; abdomen 

 tawny. Wings bright tawny beneath, with a duller brown inconspicuous distal 

 border, extreme bases more or less yellow, es[)ecially near abdominal edge of 

 hindwing. 



S. Sexual armature as in ^f. aesalon, but dentate process of penis-sheath more 

 obtuse, and the broader internal rod wider apically. 



