( 637 ) 



Underside hazel, shaded with grey, distal border lirowii, abdominal area of 

 hiudwinj;- yellow, sharply limited iti front. 



End-segment of antenna as long as the five preceding segments together. 



(J. Tenth tergite truncate, angles rounded , sternite incrassate at apex and here 

 transversely carinate. Clasper irith friction-scales ; harpe pointed, flat above, free 

 jiart short (PI. L. f. 33). Process 'of penis-sheath (PL LVI. f. 44), long, evenly 

 cnrved, pointing proximad, its distal surface denticulated, a longer subbasal tooth ; 

 internal rods flattened, rounded at end. 



Length of forewing : S , V.) mm. ; J, ■,'3 mm. 



Cremaster of pupa (PI. LXIV. f. 21) flattened, triangular, bifid, dentate. 



Ihh. S. India. 



In the Triug Museum, 1 pupa, 2 cf c^, 3 ¥ ? from: Madras {tijpc), Oct. and 

 Nov. ly!)(3, Feb. and March 1SU7 (Watson) : Mahe, Deschamps (received from 

 Mons. Chas. Oberthiir). 



In the collection of Charles Oberthiir fmm Mahe ; also in the collection of 

 Monsieur I'Abbe de Joannis. 



572. Macroglossum belis. 



{>.) Sphnij- hplis Linnd, Susl. Nat. ed. x. p. 49;!. n. 31 (1V58) (hab. ?). 



.S///(»u- lieViH Cramer, Pap. E.i-ol. i. p. 147. t. 94. f. c (1776) (China). 



Six'ta gliliataiuin /3., Fabricius, Sprc. Ins. ii. p. 155. sub u. li (1781) ; Gmel., Sijst. Xiil. i. .0. p. 2387. 

 sub n. 27 (1790). 



.\larriig!osga stellntariim, Walker, List Lep. Ins. B. M. viii. p. 80. n. 1 (1856) (partim). 



.Marrogloi'xa pas-fuliis, id. («o« Driiry, 1773), I.e. p. 92. n. 12 (1856) (partim). 



Man-ai/liissa p!/n-liula, Boisduval, .^jm-. Gm. I.fp. Hit. i. p. 338. n. 10 (1875) (hab. ?). 



Manarjlusm bilis, id., L,-. p. 343. n. 17 (1875) ; Batl. , Traiig. Zuol. Soc. ioW. ix. p. 526. n. 17. t 90. f. 6. 

 7 (/., p.) (1877) ( = »«.s;«»7;s ex err.) ; Moore, Jourii. As. Soc. Beiiganiu. 2. p. 234. n. 1 (1884) 

 (Cachar) ; Swinh., Pror. Zool. Soc. Loud. p. 287. n. 3 (1885) (Belgaum ; Sattara, vi. ; Bombay); 

 id., /./■. p. 434. n. 3. (1886) (Mhow, vi. ix. xi.) ; id., Joiini. Dombaii N. H. Soc. iii. p. 117. u. 3 

 (188H) (Karachi ; = «Wm(7«= ;ra«, c./- eir. .') ; id.. Cat. Lcp. Het. Miu. Ox. i. p. 7. n. 23 (1892) 

 (partim) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. lid. i. p. 630. n. 21 (1892) (partim) ; Hamps., iuBlanf., Fauna Brit. 

 Intl., .Votlis i. p. 113. n. 184. fig. 67 (1892) (syu. partim); Dudg., .Jonrn. Iloiiihuij N. II. Soc. 

 xi. p. 417. n. 184 (1898) (Sikhim & Bhutan, up to 3000 ft., v. vii. ix.) ; Nurse, Joni-n. ISumha;/ 

 -V. //. Sor. xii. p. 513 (1899) (Cutch). 



*Man-o(jlossa opis Boisduval, I.e. p. 345. n. 21 (1875) (Silhut ; Darjiling ;— coll. Charles Oberthiir). 



(J ? . End-segment of antenna abf)ut as long as the Ave preceding segments 

 together. Alxlomen with three ciidmiiim-yellow side-patches, separated fnnu each 

 other, tlie lirst smallest, transverse, flfth segment with a lateral, si.xtli with a 

 dorso-lateral, and seventh with a mesial patch of a dark brown or bhick colonr ; 

 tips of side-tufts white ; breast and legs russet-wood-browu, middle of i)rosternnm 

 more grey ; palpns white, with some brown scales ; abdomen beneath clayish 

 cinnjunon-rufous, basal sternite and a large indistinct mesial apical jiatch on 

 each of tiie two following ones of the colour of the breast. 



Wings, ith(ii:c.~ — Forewing : two aiitemedian lines, slightly converging in 

 front, intersjiace tilled \\\>, but the band not prominent ; first and st:cond discal 

 line evenly curved costad in front, the second line heavier than the first, interspace: 

 partly filled np with dark scaling, especially iu front, the lines straight behind, 

 or incurved ; dark subajiical patches not prominent, grey costal space at its 



Jiroximal side sliarply limited at 1{'. llindwing with cadmium-yellow median 



band, base and ilistal boi'dei' blackish brown, the bortler somewljal shaded oil' along 

 the yellow Inuid, \if\u'^ heie Ic.>k dee]) in lint. 



