llr;i. Iiiil.. Molina i. p. li:i. II. 18-J (l.S',12) (paitim) ; Niirsp. Jniirn. llnmlui,/ N. //. Sn,-. xii. 

 p. .013 (1H',>9) (Ciitch). 

 'MacoijloKxa n,ili» Butler, Pmr. y.n„I. Sac. LuwI. p. 240. n. '.. t. 30. f. ', (187.".) (Canara ;-Mus. 

 Brit.) : id., Trans. Zool. Sue. Loml. ix. p. WIX. n. 4 n«77) ; Kirhy, 1 r. p. (;30. n. 7 (1H9l') ; 

 Hamps., /.(•. p. 112. n. 180 (1892) (Canara). 



c??. Eiid-segmout of aiitoiiiiii longer than in ip/rdns. Similar in colour to 

 M. yyranti, base of seventh aliilomintil tergite less pnre and less extended white, this 

 belt generally not visible or only indicated, unless the segment is removed ; sides 

 of breast and legs of tlie dull drab-rnsset colour of the nndersiile of the abdomen, 

 tlie latter without white mesial patches ; underside of tail of the same dull tint. 



\\'iugs, ahflvc. Forewing : antemedian double line prominent, black, close 



together ; interspace more or less filled up with black ; median interspace grey ; 



discal lines thin, not prominent, a dark shade on disc between R' and M'. ■ 



Hindwiug : base and broad distal liorder-band blackisli umber-brown, median band 

 ochraceous orange or more tawny (too pale in our figure). Forewing varying in 

 length from Ki to 22 mm. 



S . Tenth tergite somewhat rounded at tlie sides just before the pointed tip ; 

 sternite not black, rather flat, apex rounded. Clasper without friction-scales ; harpe 

 (PI. L. f. 37) sharply pointed. Penis-sheath (PI. LVI. f. 20) with two 

 rather broad internal rods ; apical process dentate at proximal edge, long, acute, 

 not dentate at and near base, basally projecting distad. 



Early stages not known. 



Ifab. Ceylon ; S. India. 



In the Tring Museum 9 c? c?, H ? ? from ; Ceylon ; Nilgiris ; Madras, iv. ; 

 Sangli. 



Butler's riulis is based on a small individual. 



571. Macroglossum particolor spec. nov. (PL IV. f. 13, i). 



S ? . Upperside of body and forewing drab-grey ; mesial line of head and 

 tliorax russet-brown, a large lateral })atc.h on mesothoracic tegula of the same 

 colour, edged with grey. Abdomen with three orange side-patches, rather small, 

 not separated from one another, the second the largest ; fifth and sixth tergites 

 laterally, seventh mesially, tawny-olive, third and fourth with two blackish basal 

 dorsal spots, not visible if the segments are telescoped too much into one another. 

 Ibulcrside of palpus greyish white, with a white side-line ; breast grey, shaded with 

 wood-brown ; abdomen wholly wood-brown. 



Wings, upperside. Forewing: a broad costal abbreviated subbasal band, 



sejmrated distally by a thin grey line from a narrower band ; two antemedian lines, 

 oblique, especially the first, interspace filled up with dark scaling ; first and second 

 discal line rather sharply angled behind R^, first line touching (or almost) second 

 antemedian, the grey median intersjiace therefore hourglass-shaped or separated 

 into two patches ; second discal line mucli heavier than first, anterior half of inter- 

 space between the two filled nj) with blackish scaling, this scaling extended distad 

 behind R', only separated from the cons])icnous subapical dark patch SC'' — R' by 

 the grey vein R', dark apical marginal halfmoon conspicuous, grey costal space 

 j)roximally of these patches sharply defined, separated by the grey border of the 

 indistinct third discal line into a paler proximal and a slightly darker and sometimes 



a little rufous distal portion. Hindwing : base and a broad distal border blackish 



brown, somewhat olive, median band cadmium-yellow, shaded with tawny along 

 the distal border, especially in ? . 



