( r.38 ) 



I'mlrrside hazel-cbestuut, rather brighter than abdomen ; abdomiual area of 

 hiudwiiig cadmiiim-jellow. 



c?. Tenth segment simihxr to that of caci linns. (Uasi)er irifh friction-scales ; 

 harpe and penis-sheath also not essentially ditierent from that of (acillans. 



Larva (ace. to Butler) black ; head and a series of lateral stigmatical spots 

 red ; a white dorso-lateral line. 



I lab. Ceylon, N.W. India to China and the Loo Choo Islands. 



In the Tring Museum 64 specimens from : Ceylon ; South India ; Ajmere ; 

 Dalhousie; Sikliim ; Blintan ; Khasia Hills ; Cherrajmnji ; Tonkin; Loo Choo. 



A close ally of .1/. rficilluHn, distinguishalde by the absence of a yellow patch 

 from the fourth abdominal segment and the mucli paler yellow band of tlie 

 hindwing. 



Linne's descri])tion of his bcliK is so short that it is im})ossible to say whicli 

 species of Marroi/lossum he had before him. Cramer's figure agrees best with 

 the present insect. 



The type o{ jj//r/7iula is not preserved. 



i373. Macroglossum assimilis. 



Macroglosmm ass'nniU>^ Swaiuson, Zoul. llhistr. t. G4 (^J, $ ) (18:il) (hab. ?). 



'^.Vacroglo^sa rjiUa Herrich-Sch., Ausaer. Schm. i. f . 107 (1854) (Java ; — type now in coll. Staudinger). 



' Macroglonsa beiirjahnsi^ Boisduval, ■S/wc Gen. Lip. Hit. i. p. 341. n. 14 (1875) (Pondicheri ; — coll. 



Charles Oberthiir); Hamps., in Blanf., tauna Brd. Ind., .Mothf i. p. 115. n. i;'i8 (1892); Kirby, 



Cat. Lep. Hei. i. p. 630. n. 19 (1892) ; Hamps., Ji,uni. Bmnhay N. H. So,: xiii. p. 40. n. 187 



(1900) (= helia). 

 ' .Macrnglosm ttixkolor Moore, Proc. Zoul. .Soc. Lmid. p. 387 (1879) (Ceylon ;-Mus. Dublin) ; id., Lep. 



Ceylon ii. p. 29. t. 90. f. 3. 3a (/., t>; ') (1882) ; Kirby, I.e. p. G32. n. 45 (1892). 

 *Mttcroglosm heltd Hampson, in Blanf., Fauna Brit. Lnd., Motlu i. p. 114. n. 186(1892) (Trincomali, 



? ;— Mus. Brit.) ; id., llbixti: Tijp. Specim. Lep. Het. B. .1/. ix. p. 68. t. 157. f. 16 (1893). 



cf ? . Similar to belis ; dark side-patches of fifth and sixth abdominal segments 

 less black, underside of abdomen and wings less reddish ; upperside of forewing 

 with a whitish grey flush, the autemedian band broader behind, dilated basad 

 at hinder margin, first discal line vestigial behind, second strongly angled at R-, 

 concave between R- and hinder yiargin, interspace between the two lines filled up ; 

 subapical dark spot 8C'' — R' ovate, prominent, nearly black, the grey costal 

 s})ace at its proximal side not sharjily limited behind, continuous with the grey 

 submargiual area; the grey median interspace rather conspicuous; yellow band 

 of the same colour as in belis, i.e. deeper in tint than in conjthus and allies. 



(?. Tenth tergite truncate-sinuate ; sternite transversely multicarinate on the 

 upperside, raised in the mesial line, appearing pointed in an apical view, apical 

 half black. Clasper witli friction-scales ; harjie (PI. L. f. 38) elongate, spoon- 

 sha])ed at end, the small widened part dentate. Penis-sheath (PI. LVI. f. '1\) 

 with a long apical prticess, which is somewhat widened and dentate before end ; 

 from its projecting base proximad extend two series of long teeth on to the sheath ; 

 internal rods obtuse at end. 



Larva (ace. to Moore, l.c!) brown or green, a dorso-lateral pale line from 

 end of ninth segment to horn, continued froutad by a series of thin brown dashes, 

 or by a vestigial line ; a series of dorsal dots. 



Ihib. Ceylon ; S. India ; " Java " (ace. to Herrich-Sch.). 



In the Tring Museum 9 c?t?, 8 ? ? from : Ceylon ; Nilgiris ; Ma'lras, vi. xi. 



Swaiiison's figures apply to this insect ; the grey tint of tiie foi'ewing, the 



