( MH ) 



till' yellow sidc-piitcli of spgraciit \ as hirgc as that, on :i ; sevciitli steniito with 

 wliito mesial lino, the other sternitcs with more or less distinet white mesial dots. 



Length of t'orewing : 25 mm. 



JIti/j. Florida Island. 



lu the Tring Museum 1 ?, 2. i. lOul (A. S. Meek). 



■tx'-K Macroglossum dohertyi. 



*jr,icn„il„i,„i fh.hrh,; Rothschikl, Nov. / ,. i. p. CT. t. ,0. f. -J. (J) (1804) (.Vmboiii.a ;— Mus. 



Tring). 



cJ. In this remarkable insect the median interspace and the grey ])ostdiscal line 

 of the forewiug of the other Mfinv(/lostinm have develojied into two narrow, sharply- 

 defined, huffish white bands. Tenth tergite rounded-truncate ; sternitc narrowed 

 towards the end, which is rounded, (,'lasper with rather large friction-scales ; liarpe 

 rather l)road, compressed, subacuminate, upper edge denticulate distally (PI. L. 

 f. 31). Process of penis-sheath (PI. LVI. f. 49) short, obtuse, densely denti- 

 culate at the pro.ximal edge and at end ; internal rods rounded at end. 



Jfnb. Amboina and New Guinea. 



In the Tring Museum 2 c? c? from : Amboina, February 1S92 (W. Dohcrty, 

 f//pr) ; British New Guinea. 



590. Macroglossum hirundo. 



*Macrorihma hirmirh, Boisduval, Vn,/. A^lrnlahf, Up. p. 184 (18,S2) ; id., Sprr. Gen. Up. Ket. i. 

 p. 346. n. 23. t. 9. f. 4 (1875) (Tahiti ;— coll. Charles Oberthilr). 



(J ? . A geographically and individually variable species. The median inter- 

 space of the forewing grey, generally prominent, straight, sometimes separated 

 into two patches ; first and second discal lines not or feebly curved costad, not 

 obviously elbowed, more or less concave. Yellow abdominal area of hindwing 

 below sharply defined. 



S. Tenth tergite compressed, jjointed; sternite rounded at end. Clasper 

 with friction-scales ; harpe (PI. LI. f. 8) broad, flattened, more or less rounded 

 at end, apex densely denticulated. Process of penis-sheath (PI. LVI. f. 27) 

 horizontal, slender, dentition variable, no teeth upon sheath near base of process, 

 exce])t in lifuensis; internal rods rounded at end, the longer one dentate at 

 one edge. 



llab. Papuan 8ubregion : Key to Tahiti and Fiji. 



Five subspecies : 



a. M. Itinmdo hirundo. 



*M(in-oijhssn hmimJo Boisduval, in Voy. Astmhibc, Up. p. 184 (1832) (Taiti ;— coll. Charles 

 Oberthiir) ; id., Spec. Gin. Up. Het. i. p. .34('). n. 23. t. 9. f. 4 (1875) ; Butl., Tnuix. Zonl. So,: 

 Loud. ix. p. 529. n. 37 (1877) ; Kirby, Git. Up. Het. i. p. 632. n. 58 (1892). 



c??. The yellow area of the hindwing is far too broad in Boisduval's figure, 

 the base of the wing being black in Tahiti specimens, not yellow. Grey 

 median band of forewing very narrow, oblique, being a little more distal at 

 hinder than at costal margin, the dark lines and bands indistinct, grey border 

 of postdiscal line and a grey submarginal shade extending from apex to near 

 hinder margin distinct, less regular tiian in Boisduval's figure. Yellow band of 

 hindwiny- rather broader than the basal black area. Abdomeu with a small 



