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Ilab. D'Entrecasteanx Is. ; Louisiade Arcbipelagc : Queensland : Mvsol. 

 Prol)abIy on all the Papuan Islands. 



In the Tring Mnseum 13 c?c?, 13 ? ? from : Fergnsson ((y;je), d'Entrecasteanx 

 Is. (Meek); Sndest, iv. (Meek); St. Aignan, viii. (Meek) ; Queensland (Weiske) ; 

 Mvsol, i. (Kiihn). 



c. M. insipida poeciluin subsp. nov. (PI. III. f. 17, <$). 



6. Perhaps distinct. Resembling in size and iu shape of the forewing large 

 specimens of M. troylodytus. Body and wings with a reddish flush on npperside. 

 Subapical spot SC'' — SC of forewing dark rufous, dark dorsal geminate spots of 

 abdomen rather prominent, yellow side-spots reduced. Teeth on penis-slieath near 

 base of process mure numerous than in the preceding forms, the proximal tooth not 

 much enlarged, being much smaller than in either papuanuni or insipida. 



Hah. Loo Choo Islands. 



Two c?c? in the Tring Museum from : Loo Choo Is. {type) ; Okinawa, 1'-^. vii. 

 1891 (Dr. Fritze). 



The abdomen of these two examples has no black patclies beneath. 



M. insipida, pyrrhosticta and troylodytus are so similar in colour that it is 

 difficult to distinguish them from one another : the i i can be recognised by the 

 sexnal armature, but the ? ? , especially if not iu good condition, are sometimes 

 impossible to name with certainty. 



o80. Macroglossum alcedo (PI. III. f. 8, S). 



' Mdcniglossum alcedo Boisduval, r«y. Aslmlabr, Lej). p. 188. n. 2 (1832) (Dorey;— coll. Charles 

 Oberthur) ; id., !<pec. Gen. Lep. Hit. i. p. 347. n. 24 (187,5). 



(? 9 . In colour and pattern closely resembling ungues, auteraedian band of 

 forewing less distinct, grey postdiscal line distinct only in front, the marginal band 

 of the hiudwing obviously broader, angulate near M', not evenly convex, underside 

 of wings brighter chestnut, with the darker brown distal border more distinct. 



cJ. Clasper without friction-scales ; harpe (PI. L. f. 47) short, recurved at 

 end, this part dilated, concave, densely denticulate. Penis-sheath (PI. LVI. f 30) 

 with the internal rods rounded at end ; 7io process, it being replaced by a short 

 longitudinal dentate ridge. 



Ilab. Queensland ; Key ; N. Guinea. 



In the Tring Museum 7 c?(? from : North Queensland (Weiske) ; Little Key, 

 January to March 1895 ("Webster). 



The type of alcedo is in bad condition ; it is a ? and belongs apparently here 

 and not to the following species. The distal border of the hindwing is, however, 

 rather too narrow, approaching that of unyues. Nobody will be able, we think, to 

 prove that Boisduval's alcedo is not the species here figured as such. 



.JSl. Macroglossum ungues spec. nov. (PI. III. f. 7, c?, type, Hnru). 



*Miinogl'i.t.<(t gilla, Pagenstecher {iton Herrich-Sch., 1854), Jahrh. Na.'is. Ver. Xat. xxxvii. p. 210 

 (1884) (Amboiua) ; id.. I.e. xli. p. 100. n. 213 (1888) (Amboina) ; Semp., .SVA«(. Philipp.'n. 

 p. 400. n. 55 (1891)) (Luzon v. vi.). 

 (^?. A smaller species than sitiene, but nearly identical with it in pattern. 



Forewing more obtuse, outer margin more convex, first discal line more curved. 



nearer the antemedian band in middle, snbapical spot SC^ — SC^ more prominent : 



iiindwing below more washed with yellow iu basal area. Antenna of c?c ompara- 



tivelv longer and stouter. 



