( aof) ) 



(J:iv:i) : WiilU., /.,■, xxxi. p. I'T (IKC-l) ; ^disd., .s>c<'. (Ihi. Li'ii. llrt. i. p. :!4H. ii. '-'H (1S7:')) : 

 Uutl., 7'/v/uK. Xu„l. S„r. L„ml. ix. p. i,2X. n. ;« (1877) ; Kirby, Cal. Lcp. Iht. i. p. f,?,2. n. .W 

 {Wi->) ; Iluwe, yy,//. /•;«<. ZrilHrhr. xl. p. 357. n. 8 (1895) (Java). ' 



Cramer's figure agrees best with the insect cbaracterised helow ; the thorax 

 of the sjKH'iinen from which the figure was taken was discoloured, the ycHow 

 abdominal si)ots are too large, the sinus before the abdominal angle of tlie hindwiug 

 is too deep, and there is only one discal line present in the figure instead of two, 

 the outer half of the fbrewing being altogether too roughly drawn, though the 

 curved black submiiTginal band of the insect is rather well represented in the figure. 

 The peculiar curve of the costal margin of the forewing is well indicated in tiie figure. 

 8o far no specimen from South India has come to our notice, but that does not 

 ])rove the locality " Coromandel " given by Cramer to be erroneous. 



c? ? . The largest M(irro(//o/is/n>i known. Resembling //assalM-s in the dark base 

 of the forewing, the ])rominent straight antemedian band, the vinaceous grey median 

 area, the feeble first discal line, the dark band-like shade extending from apex 

 of forewing to K- and then curving distad, ending at distal margin before angle, etc. 

 It differs in the yellow abdominal side-jiatches being comparatively smaller, in the 

 abdominal sternite bearing large pale mesial patches, at least the proximal ones, 

 ill the antemedian lines of the forewing being more distinctly sejjarate from one 

 another, the second discal line being much thinner, the interspace between the first 

 and second discal lines not being filled in with black anteriorly, and the black curved 

 snbmarginal sliade being more distinctly band-like. Besides, the underside is 

 deeper brown and the base of the hindwiug obviously shaded with yellow, and the 

 npperside of the thorax (sometimes also the first abdominal tergites) is green 

 without a darker sharply defined area on the mesothoracic tegula. 



<S. Genital armature similar to that of passalus, but the har{)e (PI. L. 

 f. 42) longer, with the tip more strongly recurved and more obviously denticulated ; 

 the process of the penis-sheath (PI. LVl. f. 30) longer, more acute, with the 

 patch of teeth at and near its base as in passalMS, but the teeth smaller, and the 

 underside of the process densely denticulated. 



Il((b. South India (Cramer) to Java, Borneo, and the Loo Choo Islands. 

 In the Triug Museum 5 cJcJ, 8 ? ? from : Okinawa, viii. '91 (Dr. Fritze) : 

 I'enang and Perak (Curtis) ; W. Java. 



The Loo Choo specimens are smaller and have the costal edge of the forewing 

 a little less curved. 



A 6 from Borneo in coll. Pagenstecher. 



Gil. Macroglossum meeki spec. nov. (PI. lY. f. 2, S). 



i. Similar to passalus and faro. Head slate-colour, with darker middle line ; 

 thorax above olivaceous green, mesothoracic tegula nnicolorous as m faro, without 

 the oblique line of passalus bordering a darker area ; abdominal tergites without 

 dark dorsal basal dots, third with two white spots, three yellow side-patches on 

 segments 2 to 4, sejiarated from one another, side-tnfts all tipped with yellow, not 

 white, anal tuft also with yellow tip ; j)alpus below slaty grey, speckled with white, 

 breast and legs clayish ochraceous, femora and sides of breast brownish ; three 

 basal abdominal sternites yellow, with side-patches of burnt umber colour, the 

 following segments burnt-umber. 



Wings, ujipcrsiclc. Forewing : second antemedian line quite straight, 



forming a band with the first line, this barely traceable on account of the basal area 



