( ()39 ; 



liroad aiitemeiliau baud, the strongly cuvved secijiul dismal Hue and the pi'oiuiiient 

 ovate sulia]»ical .spot are well rejiroduced in the figures. Herricli-Seliaeffer's tigure 

 is overcoloured. 



oT4. Macroglossum fruhstorferi. 



Miin-oijhssti fnthstoifin Huwe, lierl. Ent. ZeiUrhi: xl. p. '^hl . n. 10. t. .'i. f. 4 (c^*) (18'J5) (Java). 



c? ?. Similar to calescens. Underside of jialpns and middle of breast blackish 

 grey, speckled with white scales : posterior side-tufts of abdomen tipped with 

 yellowish buff, not white ; between the grey postdiscal costal space ot forewing 

 and the grey space at iuterual margin there is a third grey i>atch, these three 

 forming a baud divided by two blackish brown streaks R- aud M', the grey 

 postdiscal line at the outer edge of the upper two grey patches continuous down 

 to M' or to hinder margin ; hindwing below yellowish in basal area, pale yellow 

 abdominal area ill-detiued. 



S . Tenth tergite narrowed a])ically ; sternite longer, slenderer in side-vieW, 

 broadly rounded at end in dorsal view, not distinctly acuminate. Clasj)er without 

 friction-scales ; harpe (PI. LI. f. 6) gently curved upwards, tip denticulated. 

 Process of penis-sheath (PI. LVI. f. 32) short, obtuse, denticulate at aud near 

 the proximal edge and at apex. 



Hah. Java ; Obi. 



Two subspecies : 



rt. J/, frahstovj'eri friihstorjeri. 

 }Uicni<jhiss,ifruhdnrfa-i Huwe, Ix. 



S ?. Grey i)(istdiscal line of forewing intcrrui)ted at M' ; the grey area outside 

 the blackish brown discal band divided into three patches ; yellow band of hind- 

 wing interrupted. 



Hab. Java. 



In the Tring Museum 1 i from Java. 



In coll. Oberthiir 1 i from Mt. Gede (Ledru). 



b. M. j'nihstorjcri latijascia subsp. nov. (PI. VI. f. (J, ?). 



?. Only one rather worn example known. It belongs, we thiidv, to this 

 species. Differing from Java specimens in the blackish brown discal band of the 

 forewing being broader, in the grey space outside it and the grey postdiscal line 

 Udt being interrupted, and in the yellow band of the hindwing being much broader, 

 not interrupted (the black basal scaling partly rubbed away in the si)ecimen). 



llah. Laiwui, 01)i, September IJSOT (W. Doherty), 1 ? in the Tring Museum. 



575. Macroglossum calescens (PI. III. f. 5, i. 



• .\rn-n,(jlussci adesccm Butler, Aim. .)/<(.-/. A'. //. (5). x. p. 156 {}HH2) (N. Britain ;— Mus. Brit.) ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Lep. llel. i. p. r,32. n. 47 (189-2) ; Pagenst., in Chun, Zuohifmi xii. 29. p. 18. u. 19 

 (1900) ("not seen"). 



<?. Body above and forewing black, with a chestnut tint, es])ecially the 

 former. Head above dark grey with a blackish mesial strijje ; a distinct white 

 line above eye ; anterior part of thorax speckled with white-tipped scales ; two 

 yellow side-patches on abdomen situated on segments '■) and 4, seventh segmenl 

 wi(h white scales at base, dorsal and ventral basal scales of tail white-ti]ijnd, 



