f f.3fi ) 



Bril. fm!., Mnlhx i. p. 113. n. 1S2 (1.M'.I2) (piirtim) ; Nurse. Jntmi. rSnuihrni X. II. Sar. xii. 

 p. 513(1899) (Cutch). 

 -Macioglossa riiilis Bntler, Pine. Zonl. Soc. Luml. p. 240. n. 5. t. 3G. f. 5 (187.5) (Canara ;— Mus. 

 Brit.) : id., Trans. Zuol. Sac. Loml. ix. p. .5--'4. n. 4 (1S77) ; Kirby, I r. p. 630. n. 7 (1892) ; 

 Hamps., I.C. p. 112. n. 180 (1892) (Canara). 



cJ ? . End-sei;'ment of antmina longer than in fpinin.s. Similar in colonr to 

 M. ffi/rans, base of seventh abdominal tergite less pure and less extended white, this 

 belt generally not visible or only indicated, nuless the segment is removed ; sides 

 of breast and less of the dull drab-russet colour of the underside of the abdomen, 

 the latter without white mesial jiatches ; underside of tail of the same dnll tint. 



Wings, above. Forewing : antemedian double line prominent, black, close 



together ; interspace more or less filled np with black ; median interspace grey ; 



discal lines thin, not prominent, a dark shade on disc between R' and M-.' 



Hindwing : base and broad distal border-band blackish nmber-brown, median band 

 ochraceous orange or more tawny (too pale in our figure). Forewing varying in 

 length from 16 to 22 mm. 



tj. Tenth tergite somewhat rounded at the sides just before the pointed tip : 

 sternite not black, rather flat, apex rounded. Clasper without friction-scales ; harpe 

 (PI. L. f. 3T) sharply pointed. Penis-sheath (PI. LVI. f. 211) with two 

 rather broad internal rods ; apical process dentate at proximal edge, long, acute, 

 not dentate at and near base, basally projecting distad. 



Early stages not known. 



Ilab. Ceylon ; S. India. 



In the Tring Museum 9 cJ c?, ? ? from ; Ceylon ; Nilgiris ; Madras, iv. : 

 Sangli. 



Butler's ly'nl/s is based on a small individual. 



571. Macroglossum particolor spec. nov. (PI. IV. f. 13, cJ). 



c? ? . Upperside of body and forewing drab-grey ; mesial line of head and 

 thor.ax russet-brown, a large lateral patch on mesothoracic tegula of the same 

 colour, edged with grey. Abdomen with three oi'ange side-patches, rather small, 

 not separated from one another, the second the largest ; fifth and sixth tergitos 

 laterally, seventh mesially, tawny-olive, third and fourth with two blackish basal 

 dorsal spots, not visible if the segments are telescoped too much into one another. 

 Vnilrrside of palpus greyish white, with a white side-line ; breast grey, shaded with 

 w'ood-brown ; abdomen wholly wood-brown. 



AVings, npperside. Forewing : a broad costal abbreviated subbasal band, 



separated distally by a thin grey line from a narrower band ; two antemedian lines, 

 oblique, especially the first, intersjiace filled up with dark scaling ; first and second 

 discal line rather shar]ily angled behind II', first line touching (or almost) second 

 antemedian, the grey median interspace tLierefore hourglass-shaped or separated 

 into two Jiatches ; second discal line much heavier than first, anterior half of inter- 

 space between the two filled n]i with blackish scaling, this scaling extended distad 

 behind R', only sejiarated from the consjiicnous subapical dark jiateh SC'' — H' by 

 the grey vein 11', dark apical marginal halfmoon consiiicnous, grey costal space 

 proximally of these patches sharjdy defined, separated by the grey border of the 

 indistinct third discal line into a ])aler proximal and a slightly darker and sometimes 



a little rufous distal portion. Hindwing : base and a broad distal border blackish 



brown, somewhat olive, median band cadmium-yellow, shaded with tawny along 

 the distal liorder, especially in ? . 



