( r,f,7 ) 



licing nearly ns dark as tlio liaiid, iiK^iliaii area viiiaceous gvey, cradnally sha<liii<i' dtV 

 (listally, first discal line scarcely visible, second a little more ])n)iniuent, evenly 

 cnrved in front, followed liy a liroad Llack band which extends from costal margin 

 near tip to hinder margin at anal angle, distal edge of ihe band well defined, 



concave, marginal area drab. Hindwing : yellow band interrupted, not reaching 



costal edge, not produced to near ajiex of wing (see figure), brown border broad, 

 convex in middle. 



I'nthniide walnut-brown, distal borders mummy-brown, extreme base ol" 

 forewing, base and abdominal area of hindwing, yellow, disc of hindwing also 

 shaded with yellow posteriorly. 



S . (jenital armature as in jKro, but tij) of harpe not denticulate. 



Length of forewing : S, 27 mm. 



Ilab. Milne Bay, British N. Guinea, February ISOO (A. 8. Meek). 



1 (? in tht' Tring Museum. 



Distinguished from passahis and faro by the b-oad black postdiscal band of 

 the forewing extending from costal to internal margin, by the interrupted yellow 

 band of the hindwing, by the antemedian band of the forewing being more distal 

 behind, the white spots on the second abdominal segment, etc. 



612. Macroglossum mitchelli. 



*Mficrrigliiss(i niilclielli Ment'trii's, Kinini. Cnr/i. Aniiu. I'flr., Lep. p. 95. n. 1580 (1857) (Java ; wiih. 

 imlexrr.) ; Boisduval, .S/«v. (,■,:„. Up. IIvl. i. p. 351. n. 31. t. 8. f. 5 (1875) (Java ;— coll. Charles 

 Oberthilr). 



S ?. This conspicuous insect is easily recognised by the head and thorax being 

 marked with a very dark broad median stripe which divides the pinkish grey surface 

 into two stripes. The black discal band of the forewing is triangularly dilated 

 behind R', joining the subapical and apical black spots. 



S . Tenth tergite truncate-sinuate, angle rounded ; sternite incrassate at the 

 rounded apex. Clasper with friction-scales ; harpe (PI. LI. f. 9) similar to that 

 of hello jihila. obtuse, somewhat curved upwards at end, not dentate. Process of 

 penis-sheath nearly as in heliojiliila, more curved proximad, thin apical part not 

 (juite so long (PI. LVL f. 28). 



Ilab. Lido-Malayan Snbregion. 



Two subspecies : 



a. M. mifrlo'lli mitchelli. 

 *.Uiin;„,l„s>:a milchelli Boisduval, /..•. ; Kirby, Cat. U/i. lid. i. p. ^'A± n. 5<') (IS'.I-'). 



?. Median band of hindwing very pale yellow, narrow, slightly shaded with 

 black in middle, at 11^ barely half the width of the black marginal border. 



Ilab. Java. 



One ? in coll. Charles Oberthiir (/;//><'). 



b. }[. mitchi'lU itnpt'rafor. 



*.Varrnr,!nss'i hnjiprnln,- Butler, I'ror. Zn„l. Sue. Loud. p. 243. n. 15. t. 37. f. 4 (1875) (Ceylon ;- 

 Mu.s. Brit.) ; id., Trans. Zmil. S'ir. Lniul. ix. p. 529. n. 30. (1877) ; Moore, Lep. Cryhiti ii. p. 632. 

 n. 55. t. 90. f. 1 (18S2) ; Hamps., IHiisI,: Ti/p. Sprrim. Lfp. 11,-1. B. M. viii. p. 1. n. 13 (1891) 

 (Nilgiris, GUUO ft.) ; Kirby, /.c. n. 55 (1892) ; Hamps., in Blanf., Faumi /hit. hid., .Molhx i. 

 p. 118. n. 197 (1892) (Sikhim ; Niigiris ; Ceylon) ; id., Illaxti: Typ. Sped,,,. Lrp. HeA. B. M. ix. 

 p. 4. n. 66 (1893) (KandapoUa, Ceylon) ; Dudg., .I„„i;,. B,„„Oaij X. II. S,„: xi. p. 418. n. 197 

 (1898) (Sikhim, 5000 ft.). 



