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lino, tlic aiTii beliiiiil the grey patcli blackisli, the grey area limited by the ajiical 

 triangular halfmoon, by the subajHcal jjatcii SO' — R' and the grey line 11'. Hind- 

 wing : yellow band somewhat variable in width, at W barely half the width of the 

 black border ; fringe vinaceous cinnamon. 



Uiukrsicfe dark rnsset, more or less shaded with grey on hindwing; yellow 

 abdominal area of hindwing not very sharj)ly defined distally. 



S. Tenth tergite somewhat prismatical, truncate at end ; sternite rounded at 

 end. (Jlasper with friction-scales ; harpe (PI. L. f. 44) very short, obtusely pointed, 

 conical. Process of ])enis-sheath dentate only at base, this dentition varialile, 

 slightly extending on to (he sheath ; internal rods obtuse at end. 



JhiJj. Japan to Nortli India. 



In the Tring Museum 8 c?c?, « ? ¥ from : Kinshiu ; Sikhim. 



In coll. Charles Oberthtir several specimens from Sikhim. 



The yellow band of the hindwing is narrower in the type of ylaacophiga than 

 in other specimens. 



50(). Macroglossum godefifroyi. 



*Rhaiiiplwsrhi:<ii,a fjndrffnnji Butler, .1///;. .)/,»/. .Y. //. (.",). x. p. Vu (18H2) (Duke of York :— Mus. 



Brit.). 

 Jfacroghma guilfffnii/i, Kirby, Cat. Leji. Uet. i. p. 031'. n. 52 (18!t2) ; Pageiist., in Chuu, Z'jnhKjica 



X. 20. p. 19. n. 21 (1900) ("not seen"). 



c?. Under and internal surface of foretarsus with long scaling, especially the 

 first segment. Mid- and hindtibia with very long hairs on underside which form a 

 large tuft similar to the tuft of the abdominal scent-organ ; first segment of tarsi 

 with long scales on ventral side, the tarsi not longer than the respective tibiae. 

 Dorso-lateral black spots of abdomen very prominent. Antemedian band of fore- 

 wing very broad, disco-cellular veins within this band, which touciies in middle 

 a large disco-marginal area of the same colour, thus separating the grey median 

 space into a costal and a posterior patch ; a grey postdiscal subapical patch, 

 extended distad to outer margin. 



Tenth sternite broad, feebly sinuate. Har})e short, obtuse, compressed. Penis- 

 sheath with long and i)roximally broadened process which is dentate all over ; a 

 large 2)atch of teeth at the left side of the sheath. 



JJaL Neu Lauenburg = Duke of York Island. 



Oue cj in the British Museum ; not seen in other collections. 



The tufts of the mid- and hindtibia are a very peculiar character not found 

 anywhere else among Sphiiigidiw. 



597. Macroglossum fritzei spec. uov. (PI. III. f. 4, ? ). 



? . Head and thorax dark grey, with a brown mesial line ; a large triangular 

 mummy-brown patcii on mesothoracic tegula conspicuously edged with grey ; 

 abdomen blackish brown, two large yellow side-jiatches on segments 2 and 3, and 

 a smaller one on 4 ; underside of palpus vinaceous grey, dark triangular lateral 

 patch not sharply marked ; breast pale vinaceous in middle, darker at sides ; 

 abdomen bright tawny, apical margins brown, a lateral series of conspicuous bufi' 

 yellow spots. 



Wings, aboce. Forewiug : antemedian lines much more obliqae than in 



other s])ecies, tilled in with deep brown, the band reaching costal margin in front 

 of apex of cell, conspicuously bordered with greyish white proximally ; first and 



