( Goo ) 



secoud iliscal line irregularly cleiitate, carved costad in front, interspace not filled 

 in, a pale space M'— SM- between second discal and postdiscal line, the latter line 

 dentate, with a sharjily marked bnffish border ; subapical spot SC — SO''' somewhat 



rufous, the next spot blackish. Hindwing : yellow band l)road, black border of 



wing correspondingly narrow, its inner edge almost straight. 



Undersi/le peculiar. Forewing : rufous-chestnut, blackish brown border very 



distinct, owing to a series of irregular buff-yellow ])ostdiscal patches, patch R'— ]{^ 

 vestigial ; within tliese patches there are two thin dentate lines ; extreme base 



yellowish. Hindwing: reddish anteriorly, base and abdominal area yellow, this 



colour gradually shading off on disc, only 1 mm. short of tip of .SM" ; brown border 

 sharply marked, indications of ])ale yellow spots at its inner edge : discal lines 

 reddish. 



Length of forewing : ? , 21 mm. 



Hab. Loo Choo Islands and C'hiua. 



In the Tring Museum 1 ? from Okinawa, July 1891 (Dr. A. Fritze), ti/pe. 



Another specimen (?) in the British Museum from Hongkong. 



Differs from all other species in the very obli(ine antemediau baud of the 

 forewing. 



598. Macroglossum glaucoptera. 



* .]fiicrnghj.<sa gI<nio,i>leni Butler, Pru-. Znul. Soc. Lt,nd. p. 241. n. 7. t. 36. f. 9 (187.D) (Oeylou ; — 

 Mus. Brit.) ; id., Tnins. Zool. Snr. Lmid. ix. p. 525. n. 15 (1877) ; Moore, Leii. Ceylon ii. p. 30, 

 t. 93. f. 3. 3a ((1,2)., /.) (1882) ; Kirby, Cut. Lq>. Het. i. p. 631. n. 37 (1892) ; Hamps., in Blanf ., 

 Faiaia Brit. Iml, Moths i. p. 115. n. 190 (1892) (Ceylon). 



M'icroglos.i'i nbsciirkfjis Butler, Proc. ZmtL Sac. Land. p. 309. n. 3. t. 22. f. 5(1876) (Ayerpanes, 

 Malacca) : id.. Trans. Znul. Sur. Lund. ix. p. 635 (1877) ; Swinh.. Cat. Lqi. lid. ilus. O.c. i. 

 p. 7. n. 26 (1892) (Singapore) : Kirby. I.e. p. 630. n. 15 (1892). 



* Stiicroglossa hpsha Butler, Trims. Zonl. Sur. Land. ix. [). 635 (1877) (Calcutta : — coll. Atkinson, 

 now in coU. Standinger). 



Macrcyhj.'^sd fuscata fluwe, Berl. E/il. Zeifsclir. xl. p. 35s. n. 11. t. 3. f. a (cJ) (1895) (Java). 



<? ?. Similar to small specimens of M. corythas luteatu. 



Wings, iipperaide. Forewing deep in tint, dark brown in liasal area, tlie 



two antemedian lines little darker, filled in with dark brown : median interspace 

 greyish, wider in front than behind, discal lines not prominent, first and second 



very feebly curved, more or less filled in with dark brown. -Hindwing : yellow 



baud narrow, more or less interrupted in c?, sometimes only vestigial ; distal border 



very broad, broader behind than in western rori/thus. Basal areas of both wings 



shaded with yellow beneath, yellow abdominal area of hindwing not sharply 

 limited distally. 



i. Tenth tergite (PI. XLV. f. 0) truncate, slightly sinuate, the angles 

 somewhat projecting laterad. Olasper with a few friction-scales ; harpe (PI. L f. 39) 

 similar to that of semi/asciafa, much shorter than in con/thus, extreme tip truncate 

 and notched (PI. L. f. 40). Process of penis-sheath (PI. LYI. f. 22) very long, 

 dentate at the proximal edge, very long teeth n})on the siieath near the base of the 

 process, besides numerous small ones ; internal rods both acuminate. 



JIad. Oeylon to Java. 



In the Tring Museum 1 c?, 1 ? from I'enang and Ceylon. 



There is probably an eastern Indo-Malayaii and a western Indo-Oeylonese 

 subspecies. 



