( f)32 ^ 



c??. Thr |iiiri>lisli lionlcrol' tlir iu;iruiii;il li;uiil of tlic liindwiii^', nliiivc. nitluT 

 broad as a nile. 



/A^/;. 8oiiMi and East Africii, from ( 'ajw Colony fo Abyssinia; Comoro 

 Islands. 



In tlio Triiig Mnseniu ;") larvae, 'Z pujiae, KiO-odd specimens from: Cape Colony; 

 Natal ; Delngoa Bay ; Transvaal ; Barotse country ; Nyassalaud ; German and 

 British East Africa ; Uganda ; ({rande Comore. 



h. M. trochihis trochiloUles. 



*M(wroglofm Inirhilnidcs Butler, /'/■-.«■. X(,i,L .'^nr. Lniiil. p. 5. n. G (1875) (Sierra L. ;— Mus. Brit.) ; 



id., Trans. Ziiol. Soc. Loud. ix. p. 525. n. 14 (1877) ; Ploetz, Stetl. Enl. ZeU. xli. p. Vli. n. 2KI1 



(18H0) (Mungo); Holl., Tnttis. Aiiiei: Kiit. Sor. xvi. p. 5(j. n. 1 (1.H89) (Ogowt?, Benita) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Lrp. Ilet. i. p. 619. n. 2 (18'.t2) (Sierra L.). 

 Macviiyloxxii trorhihoi, Dewitz, .^fitth. .Miiiirh. Ent. Vei: iii. p. I'o (1.S70) (Chinchoxo) : Dnice, in 



Jameson, SUn-ii Bear Col. p. 440 (1887) (Aruwimi, iv.). 



S ?. The diiferences between this and tlie preceding- race are very sliglit. The 

 median band of the hindwing is jialer yellow, and the marginal band more extended 

 black, less brown-purple. 



JIad. Sierra Leone to Angola and the Upper Congo. 



lu the Tring Museum Ki cJcJ, Hi ?? from: Sierra Leone, vi. vii. ((^apt. 

 Stevens) ; Ogrugu, Niger ; Yelwa, Borgu, Niger ; Calweha K., Angola, v. (Penrice). 



505. Macroglossum bombylans. 



.Uacrof,h,s.^a fjilid, Walker {n.ni Herrich-Sch., lS;-,4), I.i^l Lej,. I„.<. /J. .1/. viii. p. ',13. n. 15 (1856) 

 (partim). 



*M,in-niiUissii homhyhws Boisduval, Sjin: (ini. Li-p. Hit. i. p. ,3.34. n. 2 (1875) (Centr. Asia ;— coil- 

 Charles Obertliir) ; Butl., Tmm. Zool. So,-. Land. ix. p. 525. n. 10 (1877) (N. India : Dehra 

 Dun ; Hongkong) ; Saalm., Lep. .Uad. p. 118. n. 272 (1884) ("Mad." loc. err.) ; Leech, Pro,-. 

 Zool. ^■o(•. Liiiid. p. 582. n. (i (18H8) (Satsuma, v. ; Nikko, ix. ; Oiwake, x. ; Kiukiang) ; id., 

 Trmis. Ent. Soc. Loud. p. 120. n. 105 (1889) (Kiukiang) ; Swinh., Git. Lep. Met. Miis. Ox. i. 

 p. ,S. n. 12 (1892) (India) ; Kirby, Cat. L.ep. 11,1. i. p. (130. n. 14 (1892) ; Alph., in Rom., Mt-m. 

 Up. ix. p. 11!) (1897) (Szr-tcbuen, viii.) : Leech, /.r. p. 292. n. 78 (1898) (Japan ; China). 



*Man-o,,losx„ widlei-i Butler, I'lor. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 4 sub n. 3 (1875) (= (I'dia Walk. ;— Mus. 

 Brit.); Hamps,, in Blanf., Famia Brit, hid., Moths i. p. 116. n. 191 (1892); Dudg., J")/rj?. 

 ISoinl)aii N. H. Soc. xi. p. 418. n. 191 (1898) (Sikhim, .3000—70(0 ft., rainy seas.). 



6 ? . The base of the si.xth abdominal tergite and the side-tuft of the third 

 segment are pure white ; the breast has no yellow tint, the first two or three 

 abdominal sternites have a white mesial patch. The hindwing of the ? has a 

 more or less complete yellow median band, while the band of the S is reduced 

 to an abdominal and a costal patch. 



(S. The sexual armature is as in aricida, liut tlie dentate process of tlio 

 penis-sheath (PI. LVI. f. 41) is decidedly sliorter and tlie harpe (PI. L. f. 24) a 

 little more obtuse. 



Early stages not known. 



Hal). Japan; China; Nortli India. 



This and ariciila are most likely only geographical forms of one species. 

 Tlierc is no material in collections from Burma, Malacca, Sumatra, and Borneo, 

 wJK'rc either rtricnln or h()mhjhn}A must lie expected to occur. 



in the Tring Museum Cti-odd s]iecimeus from: Asamayama, viii. : Satsuma, v. ; 

 Kiushiu ; Nanchuen, Setchuen : Ta-tsien-lu ; Hongkong: Bnxa, Bliutan ; Kiiasia 

 Hills. 



