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//ci/i. Bismarck Ai'cliij)elago and Solomon Islands. 



Tbe most yellow form. The specimens from the Bismarck Archipelago are 

 not cpiite so yellow as those from the Solomons, approaching a little the Pajinan 

 subspecies pi/lenc. 



In the Tring Museum \2 SS, 22 ?? from: Guadalcanar, iv. v. (Meek & 

 Eichhorn) ; Florida, i. (iid.) ; Isabel, vi. vii. (iid.); N. Georgia, iii. (iid.); Siiortland 

 Is. (Rihbe) : Kinigunang, N. Pommern (llibbe) ; Mioko (llibbe) ; St. (iabrii'l, 

 Admiralty Is. (Webster). 



y. J/, corifthus fuscicauda snbsp. no v. 

 * Miicrocjlosim molncccmh Rothschild, Nov. Zodi,. i. p. 67 (lH'.t4) (iiartim ; Lifii)- 



(??. Anal tuft above ochraceons only at the tip or quite brownish black, 

 more or less tawny on underside ; side-tufts of segments 4 to fl yellow ; undersiile 

 of abdomen nearly as dark hazel as the wings, middle of segments sometimes 

 somewhat jialer; side of breast and tibiae like abdomen, middle dirty grey ; palpus 

 greyish white. Yellow band of hindwing above broad, marginal border narrower 

 behind than in pi/leiie ; underside rather less extended yellow than in pylenc on an 

 average. 



llah. Lifn, Loj'alty Islands. 



In the Tring Museum 1(5 c?c?, 3 ? ?. 



'i(i(i. Macroglossum multifascia spec. nov. (PI. VI. f. 7, $). 



$ ? . Dark chocolate ; head and thorax with a greyish flash ; abdomen witli 

 one yellow transverse spot situated on third segment, a white dorso-lateral spot 

 on fourth segment and some white scaling on last segments, side-tnfts tipped with 

 white : tail chocolate-tawny above in cj, paler beneath, paler in ? than in $, tip 

 not jmler than base. Palpus below dirty grey like forecoxae, being clothed with 

 a mixture of black and white scales ; abdomen ferruginous tawny beneath, middle 

 fuscous and shaded with grey. 



Wings, ahore. Forewing : three lines in basal lialf, three jiaraliel discal 



lines curved costad in front, a scalloped postdiscal line ( ? , tiipe), which is barely 

 vestigial in J", interspaces more or less white, a conspicuous white submarginal line 



in (?, stopping at K'. Yellow baud of hindwing not interrupted, broader in ? 



than in $. 



Undersiile ferruginous-tawny on disc, brown distal border rather prominent ; 

 hindwing shaded with yellow from base to marginal band in ? , less extended 

 yellow in ? . 



c?. Clasper without friction-scales; harpe small, process straight, horizontal, 

 obtuse, finger-shaped, Imt more conical. Penis-sheath (not perfect, no process 

 preserved) with internal rods rounded at end. 



Ilab. Sarawak, Borneo (Pryer), 1 ? {type) in British Museum ; Java ? 

 (Flesch), 1 c? in Mns. Budapest, here figured. 



The peculiar striping of the forewing distinguishes this species abundantly from 

 any other }fiicroi/lossu)n. 



CD 7. Macroglossum tinnunculus. 



*.Uarrogloxsa thiimncuhi.<< Boisduval, S^Jec. Gen. Lep. Ili't. i. p. 344. n. 20 (1875) (Saigon ;— coll. 

 Charles Oberthiir) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 6.32. n. 57 (1892). 

 ? . Similar to hemickroma, but the ordinary ^fac)■og^ossum-\m(i'!i of the fore- 

 wing much more distinct ; a shadowy band extending from near middle of costa^ 



