4 SPHINGID^. 



14. Macroglossa insipida. 



Macroglossa insipida. Biitler : P. Z. S., Lond., 1875, p. 242, 



T. Z. S., Lond., ix. p. 527 (1876). 



Moore: Lep. Ceyl., ii. p. 30, pi. f)2, fig. 3, imago; 



figs. 3, 30, larva and pupa (1882). 



Cotes and Swinh.: Cat.Mothsoflndia.i. 3. 10(1887). 



■ Hampson: III. Typ.Lep. Het.,B.M.,viii. 1.4(1891). 



Type. Ceylon, in coll. Moore. 

 a. Ceylon. 



15. Macroglossa limata. n. sp. : PI. i. f. i. 



Above, reddish brown, thorax and abdomen suffused with bright 

 chesnut, sides of abdomen with three large dark ochreous round 

 spots, followed by two small pure white spots ; anal tuft dark 

 blackish brown, fore-wings with a purplish suffusion sparsely irro- 

 rated with brown atoms. Transverse bands chesnut brown, an 

 indistinct one at the base. 2nd ante medial thickening downwards 

 and expanding towards the base on the hinder margin. 3rd post 

 medial elbowed outwards above the middle, and slightly elbowed 

 inwards below the middle, followed by a dark suffusion in the disc, 

 not extending to the costa, a marginal distorted band, and a small 

 square blackish subapical mark. Hind-wings blackish brown with 

 a central deep reddish ochreous band, with its margins well defined. 



Underside, face whitish, body and wings pale dull chesnut, 

 wings with a broad greyish brown marginal band with distorted 

 inner margins, and with three sinuous brown transverse lines all 

 beyond the middle on the fore-wings, and commencing from just 

 before the middle in the hind-wings, the inner line in both wings 

 thickest and straightest. 



Expanse of wings i^''^ inches. 

 a Java (type) (Horsfield). 



Allied to M. insipida (Butler), from Ceylon, somewhat of the same 

 hue of colour, the second and third bands on the fore-wing above are 

 much more separated than in that species, the second is much more 

 even, and the third more distorted ; the hind-wings are deeper, and 

 the brown marginal band is broader, and has a more evenly curved 

 inner margin. 



There are specimens of this species also from Java in the British 

 .^Museum unnamed. 



16. Macroglossa sitiene. 



Macroglossa sitiene. Walker: viii. p. 92 (1856). 



Butler : T. Z. S., Lond., ix. p. 527 (1S76). 



Cotes and Swinh. : Cat. Moths of India, i. 5. 24 



(1887). 



Hampson: 111. Typ. Lep. Het, B. M., viii. i. 11 



(1891). 



Type. Silhet, in B. M. 



a. Siam (Mouhot). b. Silhet. 



