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Jill). BonrlMin ; Jlanritins. 



Ill the Triiig Musoiiin G cJc?, o 9 ? from Bourbou aud Mauritius. 

 The species does not occnr in Jhxdagascar : the specimens recorded from there 

 as iiiilnis are not this species, hut M. ((cmloii. 



iV'i-J. Macroglossum aesalon (?\. IV. f. lo, ?). 



MticTiighiHsu milvufi, Pollen & Vandam {iion Boisduval, 1833;, Fuiiiic Jfailar/., Jnx. p. 5 (1808) 

 (Xossi-bu) ; Walk., I.r. (1850) (Madagascar) ; But!., Tmiis. Zonl. ffor. Lowl. ix. p. 524. n. 7 

 (1«77) (partial ; Madagascar) ; id., Cixt. E«/. ii. p. 392 (1 879) (Antananarivo) : Saalm., I.e. (1884) 

 (partim : Madag.). 



"Miicroiihisxn ae^iilnii Mabille, Aim.f^nr. Ent. Frunre p. 'J'.i'.l (187il) (S.E. Madag.; partim; — coll- 

 Mabille) ; Saalm., Lep. Mud. p. 118. n. 270 (1884) (Madag.) ; Kirby, I.e. p. 031. n. 42 (1892) 

 (Madag.). 



(.?) .Mdcriujlosm troch!lus, Saalmiiller (iioh Hiibner, 1824), I.e. p. 118. n. 27.'i (1884) (Mauritius). 



c? ? . Abdomen with four orange side-patches, the first and fourth generally 

 small ; a black mesial spot at the base of the anal In-ush ; underside tawny, a series 

 of more or less confluent brown patches at each side, or nearly all tawny, or brown 

 with three series of tawny patches. Palpus white, shaded witli lirown scales. 

 Breast vinaceous brown, clayish in middle. 



AVings, <ihore. Forewing : two antemediau lines, oblique, curving basad 



behind, slightly converging in front, interspace more or less tilled >qi with black 

 scaling, especially in J : median interspace grey, with a distinct but minute black 

 stigma ; first and second discal line distinct, curved costad in front, the second 

 almost angnlate beliind R', tlie black scaling extending distad from this line to the 

 third faint one, limiting a trapezoidal grey costal space, distally of which there are 



two elongate dark patches, the upper less distinct than the lower. Hindwing 



with a broad blackish brown border which becomes purple-brown on disc; yellowish 

 orange median band broad, base brownisli black. 



Hindwing, licloir, with the alidominal area and e.vtrerae base yellow, three 

 discal lines. 



<?. Tenth tergite convex at tip, not pointed (PI. XLV. f. 8) ; sternite simple. 

 C'lasper without friction-scales ; harpe (PI. L. f. 27) slender, spatnlate, the dilated 

 ajncal part denticulate. Penis-sheath (PI. LVI. f. 15) with a ratlier broad, obtuse, 

 dentate, horizontal process, tlie series of teeth of the ])ro.\inial edge extending far 

 proximad on the sheath ; two obtuse internal rods. 

 Ilnl'. Madagascar ; Mauritius ; (Vnnoro Islands. 



In the Triiig Museum 14 (?c?, 13 ? ? from : Mauritius (Trimen, vii. ISGO, ex 

 coll. Felder) ; and Madagascar. 



The two individuals (<?, ?) from Grande Comore in the collection of Mons. 

 Charles Oberthiir differ in the median interspace of the forewing being narrower 

 than in the ordinary Madagascar individuals, in the distal border of the hindwing 

 being angnlate before SM-, which is seldom the case in specimens from other 

 localities, and in the dentate process of the penis-slieath being longer. 



bi'io. Macroglossum pachycerus spec. nov. (PI. IV. f '.), 6). 



Marrinihitna aeniilnii Mabille, I.e. (1879) (partim). 



S . (Similar to iii'xi//ii/i, but distinguished liy tlie following characters : antenna 

 oliviously longer and thicker, end-segment shorter, not longer than the three 

 jjreceding segments together : abdomen with three orange side-spots, segments 

 '> to 7 black, contrasting sha.r|)ly with the jircceding segments, base of sixth white : 



