r fi3i ) 



tii)s (if liingest. scales of anal linisli croara-colonr or ImfT; undovsido of jialpns, 

 middle of breast, and first and second pair of legs cream-colour, mesial ])atclies on 

 first three sternites of abdomen nearly the same colour, rather more tawny. 



Wings, above. Forewing deeper in colour than in aesalon, the markings 



less prominent ; second discal line heavier, interspace between first and second 



nearly filk'd np with blackish scaling ; no stigma. Orange band of hindwing 



narrower. 



Vnderside : yellow colour of hindwing less extoiideJ distad than in (lesalnn, 

 more sharply defined, discal lines less distinct or absent. 



c?. Tenth tergite (PI. XLV. f. 7) narrower at end than in aesalon ; the sternite, 

 however, broader. Harpe (PI. L. f. 26) broader, apex curved liasad and densely 

 sjiinose. Dentate process of penis-sheath (PI. LVI. f WO long, acute : only one 

 internal rod, three-edged. 



? . Not known. 



Ilab. Madagascar. 



In coll. Charles Oberthiir from Tamatave {fi/pe) and Fiauarantsoa ; also iu coll. 

 Mabille. 



In the Tring Museum 2 c?c? from : Madagascar. 



564. Macroglossum trochilus. 



rsithijrus triichihis Hiibner, Saniml. Ex. Schm. ii. t. 15^! (18-24). 



S ? . Antenna long, reaching in (J to the fork SC'-"', or lieyond. Orange-buff 

 side-iiatches of segments 2 to 4 of abdomen large, merged togetlier ; underside of 

 abdomen and wings ferruginous ; breast, extreme base of wings, and side-tufts of 

 abdomen pale maize-yellow, palpus purer white ; distal margin of wings below with 

 a russet-brown border. The brownish black distal marginal band of the hindwing 

 above proximally bordered with chestnut-purple ; median area orange-buff, ratlier 

 sharply defined. 



<S. Tenth tergite pointed ; sternite rounded at tip. Clasper without frict'on- 

 scales : harpe short, curved upwards, obtuse, the broader apical part hollowed out 

 at the proximal side, the convex side densely beset with teeth (PI. L. f. 2o). Penis- 

 sheath (PI. LVI. f. 54) with a longer sharply pointed and a shorter apically 

 rounded internal rod ; apical process horizontal, long, its proximal edge denticulate. 



Oremaster of pupa flattened, triangular, dentate laterally, ending in a point 

 (PI. LXIV. f. 20). 



Ha/j. Africa; Comoro Islands. 



Two subspecies : 



a. M. ivochihiii troehibi.i. 



P>::ihi/ni.< trorhihis Hiibner, /..■. 



Mucroglomi troclulm, Boisduval, in Deleg., Voy. Afr. Aii4r. p. 594. n. 97 (1847) (Xatal) ; Walker, 

 Li.it Lep. liiK. B. .U. viii. p. 90. n. 8 (1856) (Cape : Natal); Mi'n., Emm. Corp. Anim. Pelr,,/,., 

 Lei>. p. 95. n. 1584 (1857) (Natal) ; Boisd., Spec. Gm. Lep. Ilel. i. p. 1. p. 335 (1875) (Natal : 

 Zululand) : Butl., Traii.'i. Zu„l. Soc. Loud. ix. p. 525. n. 13 (1877) ; Oberth , Aiai. Mus. Cic. 

 Gr,ioi;i xviii. p. 7:'.5. n. 85 (1883) (Shoa, x.) : Kirby, Oil. Lrp. HH. i. p. fi-i9. n. 1 (1892) (S. 

 Afr.) ; Dist., Xnt. Tr/iii.mial p. 23fi (1892) (Pretoria, ii.). 



Miii-roiihisxa xilipne Walker, I.e. p. 92. u. 13 (185(1) (partim ; Natal ; haeo spec. ? err. lociV). 



Rli<imphoKchhmaf<t«ri,ilui,i Wallengren, Oef,\ Vet. Ak. Hiimll. xv. p. 139 (1858). 



Rli<imphoschi«iiui tmrhihi.i, id., Koiif/l. Sv. Vet. Ak: Hamll. v. 4. p. 17 (1865) (Caffr. or. ; Natal). 



MiirviKjhmna lysilhoitf: Boisduval, I.e. 



Marro,ilo^.',a irnehUoi,le.-< Butler, Proe. Zool. S„e. Lund. p. 843. n. 122 (1896) (Xyassuland, 74(:0 ft. ; 

 perfectly typical !), 



