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cj?. Modiiiii liaiul ol' liiiidwing deepor yellow, miudi broader, iit U' about as 

 wide as tlie niargiiisil border. 



Ilah. Ceylon ; S. ai.il N. India. 



In tlie Triiifr I^Inscinn li 6S froiu : ('lierraiinnji ; Klmsia and .Taiiitia Hills. 



»)1;{. Macroglossum phocinum spec. nov. (PI. III. f. 1, ?). 



?. Head and thorax deep olive, with a dark mesial stripe; abdomen blackish 

 olive, a pair of black l)asal spots on third segment; large black side-patches, 

 enlarged on fonrtli and fifth segments, no yellow patches ; nndcrside of ]ialpns 

 and middle of breast and of basal sternite of abdomen dirty grey, sides of breast 

 and legs broccoli-brown, abdomen blackish brown, side-tnfts tijiped with ImtHsh 

 white, e.xcept last. 



Wings, abore. — Forewing deep olive, lines not very distinct, the two autemedian 

 ones more or less filled in with dark scaling, cnrved, the baud dilated hasad 

 behind, its onter edge at lower angle of cell more distill than usnally ; first 

 discal line vestigial, fused with second antemedian, except in front, second discal 

 broad, angled and dilated distad behind 11' ; costal postmedian grey patch distinct, 

 longer than broad, W grey ; postdiscal line and its grey border distinct, dentate, 



two blackish brown subapical patches SC — R'. Hindwing dark seal-brown, 



without yellow band, shaded with burnt-nmber colour at and before abdominal 

 margin. 



Vnderx'idc Front's brown, base of hindwing sliaded with cinnamon and grey, 

 abdominal area dark Inirnt-umber, not yellow. 



Length of forewing : ? , 25 mm. 



Jlah. (Juadalcanar, Solomon Islands, March and April 1001 (A. S. Meek k 

 Eichhorn). 



2 ? ? in the Tring Museum. 



There is nothing known with which this species could possibly be confounded. 

 It comes nearest to promcthens in the pattern of the forewing. 



614. Macroglossum buruensis (PI. IV. f. 4, ?, type). 



'.V,irro;,ln.,siiw hiirueiis;.? Holland, X.'V. Zooi.. vii. p. ;'),".(;. n. I."i9 (1900) (Buru :— coll. Holland). 



? . A very peculiar species. Abdomen black ; no side-patches (the tawny 

 spots in figure being due to the scales being rubbed off) ; third tergite with 

 a huffish dorso-Iateral apical transverse sjwt as in meeki; last white side-tuft large; 

 underside contrasting sharply with the chalky white breast, this white colour 

 extending triangularly to the base of the third segment (second sternite), a minute 

 mesial dot on sternite of seventh segment. Fore- and midlegs and hindfeiuur 



like breast, hindtibia and -tarsus like abdomen. Forewing abore with the bands 



not prominent but distinct (see figure) ; hindwing unicolorous ; base of both wings 

 below white, this colour restricted, reaching on hindwing about halfway to 

 end of SM-'. 



/hib. Burn. 



Only one ? known, in coll. Dr. Holland. 



(il."). Macroglossum micacea. 



*.\lacro(il<jxK,i minirr,, Walker, List l.,/,. /,i^. H.M. viii. p. '.Hi. n. 21 (ISfiO) (p.artim :— jNIus. Brit.) ; 

 Boisd., Spec. Gni. Up. ffcl. i. p. .%(>. n. 3i) (1875) ; Butl., Tmtis. Zool. Soc. Loud. is. p. i<-2'.K 

 n. 39 (1877) (Moreton Bay) ; Misk., Froc. Boy. Soc. Queensld. viii. p. 7. n. 6 (1891) (Brisbane; 



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