( fisn ) 



J/ii/i. liimrliiiii ; Maut'itins. 



Ill ilu! Tfiiig Musuiiiu ^^ 6S,'-'> ? ? from Bourbon and Manritins. 

 Tlif spocies does not occur in Madagascar ; the specimens recorded fmni Miei'e 

 a-< iiillni.s ar(! not tliis sjiecies, hut ,1/. acMi/o//. 



y'i~'. Macroglossum aesalon (PI. IV. f. 10, ?). 



M,iri-i,gh,ssn iiu/fux, Pollen ^'i A'aiulam (imn Boisduval, 18.3,3), Fomm Machii/., lii^. p. 5 (18(58) 

 (Nossi-br) ; Walk., l.r. (18.")0) (Madagascar) ; Butl., Tnuix. Zoo!, fiiit: ImmI. ix. p. 524. n. 7 

 (1877) (partim; Madagascar) ; id., Cist. /■;»/. ii. p. 392 (1879) (Antananarivo) ; Saalm., I.e. (1884) 

 (partim ; Madag.). 



■ .\/>n'rofili,s.'<a aexiih,,, Mabille, Anii.Sn,-. Knl. Frtimr p. 299 (1879) (S.K. Madag.; partim ;— coll. 

 Mabille) ; Saalm., Lfj,. M,„l. p. 1 1S. n. 270 (1884) (Madag.) ; Kirby, J.<: p. r.31. n. 42 (1892) 

 (Madag.), 



e) Mdcmffloxx,, irorhilus, Saalmiiller {mm Hiibner, 1821), l.r. p. 118. n. 273 (1884) (Mauritius). 



S ? . Abdomen with four orange side-patches, the first and fourth generally 

 small ; a black mesial spot at the base of the anal brush ; underside tawny, a series 

 of more or less confluent brown patches at each side, or nearly all tawny, or brown 

 with three series of tawny patches. Palpus white, shaded with brown scales. 

 Breast vinaceous brown, clayish in middle. 



Wings, above. Forewing : two antemedian lines, oblique, curving basad 



behind, sliglitly converging in front, interspace more or less filled up with black 

 scaling, especially in c? : median interspace grey, witli a distinct but minute black 

 stigma ; first and second discal line distinct, curved costad in front, the second 

 almost angulate behind R', the black scaling extending distad from this line to the 

 third faint one, limiting a trapezoidal grey costal space, distally of which there are 



two elongate dark patches, the ni)per less distinct than the lower. Hindwing 



with a broad blackish brown border which becomes pnrple-l)rown on disc; yellowisli 

 orange median band broad, base brownish black. 



Hindwing, beloir, with tlie aljdorainal area and extreme base velliiw, three 

 discal lines. 



S. Tenth tergite convex at tiji, not pointed (PI. XLV. f. 8) ; sternite sim])h\ 

 ('Jasper without friction-scales ; harpe (PI. L. f. 27) slender, spatulate, the dilated 

 apical part denticulate. Penis-sheath (PI. LVI. f. 15) with a rather broad, olituse, 

 dentate, horizontal process, the series of teeth of tlie jiroximal edge extending far 

 jiroximad on the sheath ; two obtuse internal rods. 



Hal. Madagascar ; Mauritius ; Comoro Islands. 



In the Tring Museum 14 S S , 13 ? ? from : Manritins (Trimen, vii. 18(35, ex 

 coll. Felder) ; and Madagascar. 



The two individuals (c?, ?) from ({rande Comore in tlie collection of Mons. 

 Cliiuirs Oberthilr differ in the median interspace of the forewing being narrower 

 than in the ordinary Madagascar individuals, in the distal border of the hindwing 

 being angulate before SM'-, which is seldom the case in specimens from otlier 

 localities, and in the dentate jn-ocess of the penis-sheath being longer. 



5()3. Macroglossum pachycerus spec. nov. (PI. IV. f. ii, S). 



.l/(t.;v»//„«.sT( avs<i},iii Mabille, /.-•. (1879) (partim). 



J. Similar to nemlou, but distinguished by the following characters : antenna 

 obviously longer and thicker, end-segment shorter, not longer than the three 

 preceding segments together ; abdomen with three orange side-spots, segments 

 o to 7 black, contrasting sharply with the preceding segments, base of sixth white ; 



