( 629 ) 

 "i'"iO. Macroglossum alluaudi. 



*Macrof/lnssfi a Una iirii J oannifi, Bull. Hoc. Ent. Fniiice p. 52 (1893) (Seychelles ; — Mus. Paris) ; id., 



Ami. Sw: E,il. Fconre p. 430, n. L'l.t. 15. f. 1 (?) (1894) (Mahi_>, Seychelles ; desor. of larva). 

 Maeroiilossn {?) allminV "All." (!), Kirby, Nov. Zoni.. i. p. 99. n. 64 (1894). 



cJ ? . A peculiar insect, witli clirome-yellow hindwings, which are slightly 

 shaded with orange distally ; base of hindwing not brown, fringe brown ; sometimes 

 a narrow brown marginal band. Abdomen with three orange-yellow side-sjiots ; 

 two discal lines of forewing heavy, straight, no stigma ; below, basal half of 

 forewing, cell excepted, and the greater part of the hindwing washed with pale 

 chrome-yellow. 



N(it dissected. 



Larva shortly described in Ann. Soc. Ent. Fraiwe, I.e. 



Ilab. Mahe, Sejxhellcs. Tyiie in Mns. Paris ; aniither specimen in coll. 

 .Toannis ; a third in coll. Staudiiigor. 



560. Macroglossum soror spec. nov. (PI. IV. f. 19, ?). 



?. Diifers from M. milras in the following points: abdomen with four large 

 side-patches which are )iot separated from one another and are of a deep ferruginous 

 colour ; stigma of forewing rather large, first antemedian line straighter, second 

 more distal, touching stigma ; hindwing orange-rufous, shaded with ferruginous 

 distally, without a yellow band, base not darker than middle of wing, fringe pale 

 brown. From alluaudi it is distinguished by the almost obliterated first discal 

 line of the forewing, the curved second discal line, the conspicuous stigma, the 

 much deeper coloured hindwing and under surface, and the four largo abdominal 

 side-jiatches. 



lldh. Bourbon (Isle de France), 1 ? in Mus. Paris, tijpe ; another in the 

 Dublin JIuscnm. 



^Gl. Macrog'lossum milvus. 



*Mwmiilnssa milius Boisduval, Faiiiie Mail. Hnnrh. \>. 78. n. 1. t. 10. f. 3 (1833) (Bourlion : 

 Mauritius ;— coll. Charles Oberthiir) ; Walk., List Lep. Im. 11. M. viii. p. 90. n. 10 (ISfiii) 

 (■'Madagascar" ex err.); Boisd., Spec. Gen. Up. BH. i. p. .336. n. 7 (1875) (Bourbon: 

 Mauritius) ; Butl., Traim. Zuol. Sur. Lond. iv. p. .'524. n. 7 (1877) ("Madagascar" alia spec.) ; 

 Maliille, Ann. Sue. Enl. Fmiin- p. 2'Jfl (1879) ("Madagascar " ex err.) ; Saalm., Lip. Mail. p. 118. 

 n. 2i;9 (1884) (Maurit. ; Bourb. ; " Madag." ex err.); Vinp.. I'nji. /Iimrhnii p. 13 (1891); 

 Kirby, Oil. Lrp. JUL i. p. C31. n. 30 (1892) ('■ Madagasc." ex err.). 



.MiirriiijlitHHii jiiiinloru, Gucrin {nun Faliricius, 1793), /run. Rrgnr Anini. ii. p. 495 ( 1844) ( =uulnis). 



Miitruiiliigm mylrns (!), Mrnc'trirs, Enuni. Cnip. Anim. Pelr., Lrp. p. 95. D. 1582(1857) (Mauritius). 



.\larruyluKm turlms (!), Rothschild, N(iv. Zooi,. i. p. 6(1 (1894). 



6 ?. Head and tliora.x with a darker mesial line ; inesothoracic tegula cliestnut 

 laterally in fresh specimens. Abdiinien with four orange side-patches, of which the 

 first is the smallest. Hindwini; bri^lit tawnv, without dark border ; an antemedian 

 ill-defmed yellow band ; extreme base brownish black. Underside of thora.x clayish 

 vinaceous cinnamon ; paljms more grey, with a purer white 8ide-strij)e ; abdomen 

 tuwny. Wings bi-ight tawny beneath, with a <lulh'r brown inconspicuous distal 

 liorder, cxtrenu! bases more or less yclhiw, espc'cially near abdominul fdge ol 

 hindwing. 



S. Se.xual armatnr(! as in .1/. nrxiilim, Imt dentate pmecss of |ienis-sheath UKire 

 ohtuHC, and the broader inliTMiil rod wider a]iii"iliy. 



