( «fil ) 



yellow, less deej) in tint tlian in luteafa. In one of onv ? ? the liindwing lias very 

 little lilaek at the base. The yellow abdoniinal sjiots vary in size. 



Uab. Okinawa, Loo Choc Islands. 



Ill the Tring Miisenm 9 cJc?, « ? ?, mostly collected liy Dr. Fritze on Okinawa 

 from the middle of July to the middle of Angnst ISOl. 



/;. .1/. ror>/fln(s liifonta. 



Muci'Of/lnnsa cofi/tlius Walker, /.c (partim). 

 W/arroglnxS)! hitr,it,i Butler, Pruc. Znol. So,-. I.nml. p. L'41. ii. '.1. t. ?.-. f. 5 (If^'o) (Silhet;— Mus. 



Brit.) ; kl, 7'/»//.s-. Xnnl. Sor. Loud. ix. p. i'/ili. n. IS (1.S77) ; Moore, Pmc. Znnl. S„r. /.on,/. 



p. 844 (187H) (Ahsown, Upp. Tenass.) ; id., .fmirn. As. S,„-. lieiir/id liii. 2. p. -J'M. n. 2 (1884) 



(Cachar) ; Swinh., Tram. Knt. Sm: Loud. p. 162. n. 2 (1890) (Tenasserim). 

 .\Iiicro(jlogsa proxima Butler, Trans. Zaol. .S'oc. Loud. ix. p. 526. n. 20 (1877) (partim) ; id., Proc. 



Zool. Soc. Land. p. 815. n. 42 (1877) (Formosa) ; Swinh., Trails. Eut. Sac. Lond. p. 162. n. 4 



(1890) (Moulmein); Kirby, Cat. Li'p. llet. i. p. 630. n. 17 (1892) (partim); Hamps., in Blanf., 



F,i>,m, Ilrd. Ind., .Mot/,., i. p. 114. n. 186 (1891') ; Dudg., Joiirii. Bombay N. H. Snr. xi. p. 417. 



n. 186 (189H) (.'^ikhim & Bhutan, up to 2ilO0 ft., vii.). 

 (?) Macroglossa corythiis, Snellen, Tijdschr. Eid. xxii. p. 67. n. 19 (1879) (S. Celebes) ; Huwe, 



Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. xl. p. 357. n. 6 (1895) (Java). 

 *Macr(i(jhjfS(i syh-ia, Semper (iiou Boisduval), Schmeli. Pliilijij). ii. p. 407. n.59. t. .i. f. .S. 4. o (I., p.) 



(1896) (Luzon ; Camiguin de Mindanao ; N. Mindanao ; Palawan ; vi. — x.) ; Pagenst., Iris 



iii. p. 2. n. 4 (1890) (Palawan). 



(^ ? . Anal tnft black above, or tawny only at the tij); underside of alidomen 

 inclusive of tail dull chestnut-hazel, or deeper lirown, side-tuft of third segment 

 white. 



Larva (see Semper, I.e.) brown or green ; a dorso-lateral line, black in brown 

 form, with white speckles, red and white in green form; no oblique side-ljands. 



JlcJj. China, Formosa, N. India, Andaman Islands, eastwards to the Philippines, 

 Celebes, Flores, and Sumba. Api)arently common everywhere. 



In the Tring Museum 50-odd specimens from: Formosa; Tonkin; Khasia 

 Hills; Cherrapunji ; Andaman Is.; Penaug ; Perak ; Borneo; Mindanao; Java; 

 Flores ; Sumba ; Celebes. 



c. M. corythus corythus. 

 ''.]fa<roglnssa niri/thiis' Walker, /.'-. (185G) (partim ; Ceylon ; S. India ;— Mus, Brit.) ; Moore, in 



Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. Lis. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 262. n, 699 (1857) (partim ; Canara). 

 *.]rarniij!u.^sapro;rimn Butler, Pror. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 4. n. 4. t. 1. f. 1 (1«75) (Canara ; Ceylon :— 



Mus. Brit.); id., Trans. Zool. So,-. Lond. ix. 526. n. 20 (1877) (partim; Ceylon, Canara); 



Moore, Lep. Ceylon ii. p. 29. t. 91. f. 1. la. lb (/.,;>.,;.) (1882) ; Hamps., in Blanf., Fauna Hrit. 



Ind., Moths i. p. 114. n. 186 (1892) (partim) ; Kiiby, Cat. Lrp. llet. i. p. 630. n. 17 (1892). 



$ ? . Abdomen paler below than in hiteata, the anal tuft often more e.xtended 

 tawny, the side-tuft of the third segment buff, only with the extreme tip white. 



Larva (see Moore, I.e., where three forms are figured ; are they one species ?) 

 clayish brown or blackish ; a dorso-lateral line which is feebly marked, or absent, 

 on the middle segments ; white spots beneath stigmata ; lilack form speckled witli 

 white ; a third form with com])lete side-line and reddish lateral jiatches. 



Ilnb. Ceylon and South India. 



In the Tring Museum '?< c? J, 4 ? ? from Ceyhm and South India. 



(I. M. eo>y//ut:i \pylew. (PI. IV. f 7, $, type). 

 * .Macroi/lossa pylene Felder, Sitx. Bir. .1/,-. Wiss. Wien xliii. p. 29 (1861) (Amboina ;— Mus. 

 Tring) ; But]., Trans. Zool. Soc. Lnnd. ix. p. 525. n 11 (1877) ; Pagenst., .Lihrh. Xass. \'er. Xat. 

 xli. p. 109. n. 215 (1888) (.\mboiua) ; Swinh., Cat. L,p. Bel. Mns.O.r. i. p. 6. n. 21 (1892) 

 (Ceram ; Waigeu). 



