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Rockhampton ; = imr) : Kirby, Cut. Leji. H,l. i. p. G:^2. r. I'A (1S;I2) : Swiiili.. Cnt. L p. 11,1. 



Mtts. Oj-. i. p. 7. n. 28 (lS9->) (Moreton Bay). 

 * MacrogloHna nox Newman, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lund. (2). iv. p. o-l (1857) (Qiieensliind ;— Mus. Brit.). 

 Macroglossa ethiix Boisduval, I.e. (= iiiic(tceu). 



c? S . Without the bhie gloss of splendens. Abdominal tergites ;$ and 4 witli 

 a transverse apical side-patch which is buffish white ; a trace of a similar patch 

 also on the second segment ; the three basal sternites have a white or biitKsh 

 white mesial patch ; the prevaginal sternite is more or less white or grey. 

 Underside of palpns and breast purer white than in spleii'lfiis. Patch and streak 

 before anal angle of hindwing above buff colour, not white ; white basal area 

 of the same wing below sharply limited distally in abdominal region and here 

 shaded with buff at the edge. Fan-tail anicolorous, often fading into clayisli tawny 

 beneath and at the tip ; the ends of the scales never white. 



c?. Olasper u-itli friction-scales; harpe (PI. L. f. 29) elongate, curved upwards, 

 obtuse at end, denticulated. Penis-sheath (PI. LVI. f. 4U) with a long horizontal 

 jirocess, which is dentate at and near the end ; two rows ofteeth near its base, 

 nearly as in assimilis ; inner rods flattened, rounded at end, the broader one 

 denticulate at one edge. 



Hub. Queensland and Louisiade Archipelago. 



In the Tring Museum 11 c?c?, 18 ? ? from : Queensland; Sudest, iv. iftleek). 



61G. Macroglossum splendens. 



MarniijI'jssa micucea Walker, List L'^. Ins. B. M. viii. p. '.Hi. u. 21 (18ot>) (partiui) : Pagenst., iii 



Chun, Zoulogica xii. p. I'J. n. 20 (1900) (Mioko ; Kinigunang). 

 *.][<icriiglijs.ia «ac Butler {ikui Newman, 1857), Proc Ziml. S,ii\ Loud. p. 5. 7. t. 1. f. (1875) 



(Rockingham B. ;— Mus. Brit.) ; id., Tniiis. Zool. Sor. Lund. ix. p. 529. n. 40 (1877) : Misk., 



Proc. Roy. Soc. QKecii-^ld. viii. p. 7. n. 7 (1891) (Mackay : Cardwell). 

 iLicroglosxd siAemlcns Butler, Eiitmii. xxv. p. 20 (18'J2) (= no.r Butl. wm Newm.): Kirby, Cat. Lcp. 



Het. i. p. 633. n. 02 (1892). 



cJ ? . Upperside of head and thora.K green when fresh ; abdominal tergites 

 without white side-patches, glossy bluish grey in side-light, some black patciies 

 excepted ; tips of lateral tufts white. Hindwing above bluish white before anal 

 angle ; a bluish white streak before >SM- ; pale costal area also bluish white behind, 

 and centre of wing with a blue gloss in side-light. Basal areas of both wings 

 below bluish wliite. The scales of the anal brush tipped with buffish white as a 

 I'ule, sometimes all black with the tips faintly tawny, seldom quite black in 

 Queensland individuals, nearly always so in the specimens from the Solomon 

 Islands; our only specimen from Burn has also no white tips to the fan; the 

 underside of the abdomen of these dark-tailed individuals has scarcely any white. 

 End-segment of antenna very long, eciualling in length (apical bristle o.\cei)ted) 

 the eight preceding segments. 



6. Harpe (PI. L. f. :iS) elongate, acute, without teeth. Peuis-shealh with a 

 long horizontal process curving round the mouth of the sheath, dentate at tlie lower 

 edge, two dentate ridges upon the sheath at the base of the process (PI. LVI. f. .j:!) ; 

 an acutely pointed process within the sheatli. No friction-scales on clasper. 



Gremaster oi' pupa broad, triangular, bihd (PI. LXIV. f. T^). 



llab. Papuan Subregion. 



In the Tring Museum 1 pupa, 2U 36, 20 ? ? from: Mt. Mada, P>urn, i.\. '08 

 (Dumas); Illo, Ceram; Queensland; Milne Bay, Brit. N. Guinea (Meek); Kiriwini, 

 Trobriand Is., iv. v. (Meek); Kinigunang, N. Poiumern (Ribbe); Mioko (Kibbe); 

 Isabel, vi. vii. (Meek it Eichhorn) ; Guadalcanar, v. (iid.). 



