( 643 ) 



Hab. D'Entrecasteaux Is. ; Lonisiade Archipelagc ; Qncenslaml ; Mj-sol. 

 Probably on all the Papuan Islands. 



In the Tring Miisenm 13 c^cj, 13 ? ? from : Fergusson {tj/pe), d'Entrecasteaux 

 Is. (Meek); Sudest, iv. (Meek); St. Aignan, viii. (Meek); Queensland (Weiske) ; 

 Mysol, i. (Kiihn). 



c. M. insipida poeciltun subsp. nov. (PI. III. f. 17, cJ). 



S. Perhaps distinct. Resembling in size and in shape of the forewing lam-e 

 .specimens of M. troglodytm. Body and wings with a reddish flush on upperside. 

 f>ubapical spot SC* — SC* of forewing dark rufous, dark dorsal geminate spots of 

 abdomen rather prominent, yellow side-spots reduced. Teeth on peuis-sheath near 

 base of process more numerous than in the preceding forms, the proximal tooth not 

 much enlarged, being much smaller than in either papuamnn or ins/pida. 



/lab. Loo Choo Islands. 



Two <?(? in tbe Tring Museum from : Loo I'hoo Is. (t^pe) ; Okinawa, 12. vii. 

 1S91 (Dr. Fritze). 



The abdomen of these two examples has no black patches beneath. 



2f. insipida, pijrrhoiiticta and tro(jlodi/tus are so similar in colour that it is 

 difficult to distinguish them from one another; the SS can be recognised by the 

 sexual armature, but the ? ? , especially if not in good condition, are sometimes 

 impossible to name with certainty. 



580. Macroglossum alcedo (PL III. f. 8, <?). 



' Miii-niijlossiim akedo Boisduval, Voi/. Asti-nlabe, Leji. p. 188. n. 2 (18.32) (Dorey;— coll. Charles 

 Oljerthiir) : id., .S^wc. Gen. Lep. Hit. i. p. .347. n. 24 (1875). 



(J ? . In colour and pattern closely resembling ungues, antemedian band of 

 forewing less distinct, grey postdiscal line distinct only in front, the marginal band 

 of the Lindwing obviously broader, angulate near M', not evenly convex, underside 

 of wings brighter chestnut, with the darker brown distal border more distinct. 



S. Clasper without friction-scales ; harpe (PI. L. f. 47) short, recurved at 

 end, this part dilated, concave, densely denticulate. Penis-sheath (PI. LVI. f 39) 

 with the internal rods rounded at end ; no process, it being replaced by a short 

 longitudinal driitate ridge. 



Ilab. Queensland ; Key ; N. Guinea. 



In the Tring Museum 7 c?(? from : North Queensland (Weiske) ; Little Key, 

 January to March 1895 (Webster). 



The type of alcedo is in bad condition : it is a ? and belongs apjiarcntly here 

 and not to the following species. The distal border of the hindwing is, however, 

 rather too narrow, approaching that of uiujues. Nobody will be able, we think, to 

 jtrove that Boisduval's alcedo is not the 8i)ecies here figured as such. 



•'I'^l. Macroglossum ungues spec. nov. (I'l. III. f. T, i , ii/jif, l!nrii), 



*Marroijliiniin yiliu, Pagt-nstecher {mjii Herrich-Suli., 1864), Jalu-h. Nnxs. Vn: A'al. .\x.\vii. p. 210 

 (1884) (.'Vmboiiiii) ; iii., I.e. xli. p. lO'.l. ii. 21.S (1888) (Amboina) ; Semp., .SV/i/H. I'hilqtp.W. 

 p. 400. n. h') (1890) (l>u/.ou v. vi,). 



cJ?. A smaller species than xitit'.ne, but nearly identical with it in ]iutt('rn. 

 Forewing more obtuse, outer margin more convex, first discal line more curved, 

 nearer the ant eiMcdiaii band in middle, snbapical s])ot 8(1' — SC" more i)roniinent ; 

 Lindwing Ijclow more washed with yellow in basal area. Antenna of J conijiara- 

 fcivcly longer and stouter. 



