( G45 ) 



with white ; iiiulerside of palpns, middle of brotist, mesial patches of abdominal 

 segments greyisii white, sides of breast, logs, and abdomen deep brown. 



Wings, aboi-e. Forewing: two autemedian lines tilled in with black, this 



band broad, slightly cnrved, dilated basad behind, basal area shaded with vinaceons 

 grey, median area also vinaceons grey, with a prominent black stigma; first and 

 second discal line slightly concave at M', gently cnrved costad in front, first very- 

 weak, just proximal of fork ,S(J^-\ obliterated behind, second prominent, more distal 

 than in other species, crossing SC 2 mm. distally from fork SC^-"' and reaching 

 hinder margin about 2 mm. from angle, being only 1/, mm. distant from tlic 

 prominent oblong subapical spot SC=— R', and being contiguous with the postdiscal 



line between R' and M'. Hindwing : black border very broad, strongly angulate 



at M-, the yellow colour not extending beyond C. 



Underside blackish mummv-brown, a few greyish scales in submarginal region; 

 hindwing with the first discal line almost obliterated, the second distinct, the third 

 close to it, vestigial ; yellow abdominal area reduced, not sharply defined, extending 

 about halfway to end of SM^ 



Length of forewing : ? , 26 mm. 



[Idb. Dorey, Dutch N. Guinea, April 1897 (W. Doherty), 1 9 in the Tring 

 Museum. 



The distal position of the second discal line of the forewing distinguishes this 

 species easily from xitiene, heUophila and others, besides the stigma of the forewinn- 

 and the white sjiots on the seventh abdominal tergite. 



584. Macroglossum heliophila (PI. III. f. 0, <?). 



*}[acroiihissa lieliophiJii Boisduval, S/ifr. (itn.IJp. lU-l. i. p. 354. n. 36. t. 11. f. 2 (1875; (Halmahera; 



—coll. Charles Oberthiir) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. lief. i. p. G.Sl. n. 2.S (1892). 

 *ilacrogIosm fringiUa Boisduval, J.c. p. .352. D. 33 (1875) (India :— Mus. Paris) ; Kirliy, I.e. p. 632 



n. 60 (18112). 

 Macroglossa niyrifasriata, Butler {non id., 1875) ; Pine Zool. Sot: Land. p. 670. n. 31 (1880) 



(Formosa). 

 *M(irr<iijlossa krniila Swinhoe, Oit. Lep. Het. Mus. Ox. i. p. 5. n. 17. t. 1. f. 2 (1802) (Sumatra ; — 



Mus. Oxford). 

 *iIai:rogJosiia haehuuaiia Roth.schild, Nov. ZoOL. i. p. 07 (1894) (Loo Choo Islands ; — Mus. Tring). 

 (?) Maeriif/lossa tHvert/eiiK, Huwe («»« Wall<er, 1856), I}eil. Eut. Zeihchr. xl. p. 357. n. 4 (1H95) 



(Java). 



6 ?. Head and thorax with a prominent dark mesial stripe : a rather sharply 

 marked triangular area on mesothoracic tegula the same colour ; abdomen with a 

 pair of prominent black dorsal basal spots on fourth tergite ; side-tufts all tijiped 

 with white ; underside of paljius, middle of breast, and a mesial patch on first 

 abdoniirjal sternites greyish white, rest of abdomen dull burnt-umber-brown ; tail 

 rather darker. 



Wings, upjjerstde. Forewing : two antemedian lines filled in, forming a 



very prominent band which is nearly straight distally and dilated basad at hindc^r 

 margin ; first and second discal lines curved costad in front, concave between U' 

 and hinder margin, the first thin, the second heavier, interspace not unite filled in, 

 the lines remaining quite distinct, the second dilated distad behind U' till reaching 

 jiostdiscal line, this s[)ot-like dilatation j)rominent, H' in front of it grey, bordering 

 a sharjily defined jKistdiscal costal grey patch, subajiical sj)ot S(''' — R' ]irniuiiient, 



while the space SO' — SC'' in front of it is more or less grey. Black border of 



hindwing convex, more or less angulated near M'. 



Undcr.iidfl like abdomen, basal central area of forewing darker, distal bnrdei' 



