( 645 ) 



with white ; nii(hM'siile of palpHs, middle of hrcast, mosial patches of alidnmina! 

 segments gre^visii white, sides of breast, legs, aud abdomen deep brown. 



Wings, ubori'. Forewing : two antcmedian lines filled in with black, tliis 



band broad, slightl)' cnrved, dilated basad behind, basal area shaded with vinaceons 

 grey, median area also vinaceons grej', with a prominent black stigma ; first and 

 second discal line slightly concave at M', gently cnrved costad in front, first very 

 weak, just proximal of fork SC^""', obliterated behind, second jirominent, more distal 

 tlian in dther species, crossing SC'' 2 mm. distally from fork SC'"' and reaching 

 hinder margin about 2 mm. from angle, being only H ram. distant from the 

 jirominent olihmg snbapical sjiot SC^ — R', and being contignons with the postdiscal 



line between W and W. -Ilindwing : black border very broad, strongly angnlate 



at M-, the yellow colour not extending beyond G. 



Underside blackish mummy-brown, a few greyish scales in submarginal region; 

 hindwing with the first discal line almost obliterated, the second distinct, the third 

 close to it, vestigial ; yellow abdominal area rednced, not sharply defined, extending 

 about halfway to end of SM". 



Length of forewing : ? , 26 mm. 



[lab. Dorey, Dutch N. Guinea, April 1897 (W. Doherty), 1 ? in the Tring 

 Museum. 



The distal position of the second discal line of the forewing distinguishes this 

 species easily from xitienr, heliophila and others, besides the stigma of the forewing 

 and tlie white spots on the seventh abdominal tergite. 



i-)S4. Macroglossum heliophila (PI. III. f. <>, S). 



'^Miinof/lnssa Jielio/ihiln Boi.sduval, .Syvr. (ini./.qi. Ili't. i. p. 354. n. 30. t. 11. f. 2 (ISTo) (Halmahera; 



—coll. Charles Oberthiir) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. llet. i. p. 6,31. d. 23 (1802). 

 *.\[acroglos.<s(ifriii(ji!!a Boisduval, I.e. p. 352. n. 33 (1875) (India ;— Mus. Paris) ; Kirby, /.-■. p. G.32 



n. 60 (18i)2). 

 Mticrofihissa n'nji-ifaxciata, Butler {mm id., 1875) ; P;-w. Znnl. So<: Lurid, p. 670. n. 31 (1880) 



(Formosa). 

 *il(,n;yloi<m hinUa Swinhoe, r<it. Lep. Ihi. Mini. O.r. i. p. 5. n. 17. t. 1. f. 2 (18'J2) (Sumatra: — 



Mus. Oxford). 

 *M<imiglossa Jodcliodana Rothschild, Nov. ZoOL. i. p. C7 (1894) (Loo Choo Islands ; — Mus. Tring). 

 (.") Macrnf/losM (liveriifii.-:, Huwe (»(/« Walker, 1856), Ber!. Eiit. Znhrhr. xl. p. 357. n. 4 (18'J5) 



(Java). 



c? ? . Head and tiiorax with a prominent dark mesial stripe : a rather sharply 

 marked triangular area on mesothoracic tegnla the same colour ; abihnueu with a 

 l>air of prominent black dorsal basal spots on fourth tergite ; side-tufts all ti])ped 

 with white ; underside of paljjus, middle of breast, and a mesial jjatch on first 

 abdominal stcrnites greyish white, rest of abdomen dull burnt-umber-brown ; tail 

 rather darker. 



Wings, iippersiile. Forewing : two antemedian lines filled in, forming a 



very prominent baud which is uearly straight distally aud dilated basad at hinder 

 margin ; first and second discal lines curved costad in front, concave between R* 

 and hinder margin, the first thin, the second heavier, interspace not quite filled in, 

 the lines remaining quite distinct, the second dilated distad behind R' till reaching 

 postdiscal line, this s]>ot-like dilatation prominent, R' in front of it grey, bordering 

 a sharply defined postdiscal costal grey ])atch, snbapical spot S(!'' — R' prominent, 



while the space SC' — SC'' in front of it is more or less grey. I'lack border of 



hindwing convex, more or less angnlated near M'. 



Underside, like abdomen, basal central area of forewing darker, distal border 



