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 504. Macrog'lossum variegatum sjiec nov. (PI. III. f. 13, (?). 



Macroghism siliene Walker, List Lep. Lis. B. M. viii. p. Ol'. n. 13 (1856) (partim) ; Hamps., in 

 Blanf., Fauna Bril. Iwl, Moths i. p. 115. n. 180 (1892) (partim). 



<S ? . Diifers from /lelio/j/iila, with which it agrees best, in the following points : 

 abdomen with jiairs of black dots at the bases of tergites 3, 4, and 5 ; underside of 

 palpus and middle of breast clayish, very much darker than in /tel/ojj//ila, abdomen 

 generally deejier brown, without whitish grey patches on the first steruites. 

 Antemediau band of forewing not so prominent, much more curved, almost at right 

 angles to costal margin ; first and second discal lines also obviously more curved, 

 S-shaped, median interspace less pale than in heliophila, shaped like an hour- 

 glass, but upper part larger than lower, second discal line dilated distad behind R', 

 but this projection not very conspicuous ; R' grey ; postdiscal line and its grey 

 border distinct, continuous from costal to hinder margin ; distal edge feebly 

 scalloped in fresh specimens, with darker dots at the tips of the veins ; a pale 

 stigma with a dark spot at its proximal side in fresh individuals. 



$ . Tenth tergite truncate ; sternite less acuminate than in keliophila. Clasper 

 without friction-scales ; harpe (PI. LI. f. 1) short, acuminate, curved upwards and 

 then distad, underside often with teeth. Process of penis-sheath (PI. LVI. f. 3.5) 

 short, obtuse, slender, dentate at end as well as at proximal edge, the dentition of 

 the base extending on to the sheath ; internal rods rounded at end. 



Hah. North India ; Borneo ; Sumatra. Probably more widely distributed in 

 the ludo-Malayan Subregion. 



In the Tring Museum 10 c? c?, s ? ? from : Cherrapunji (type) ; Khasia Hills ; 

 8hillong ; Sikhim ; Borneo. 



In many collections, mixed up with specimens of other species. 



59.J. Macroglossum saga. 



*.\lairoijlussn saga Butler, Kiil. Mu. Mag. xiv. p. 2U6 (1878) (Japan ;— Mus. Brit.) ; id., llUislr. 



Tup. S/jechn. Lep. lid. B. M. ii. p. 3. t. 21. f. 1 (1878) ; Kirby, Cat. hep. Het. i. p. C32. n. 44 



(1892). 

 MiierngloBsa pi/rrlwaticta ^ Leech {iimi Butler, 1876), Frnr. Zuul. Sue. Loud. p. -082. n. 7 (1888) 



(China, .Japan). 

 *Miiciogloss(i kiiiHliiitf nsin Rothschild, Nov. Zimii,. i. p. ilO (1894) (Kiusbiu ; — Mus. Tring). ; id., /.'•. 



iii. t. n. f. 2 (IS'.lCi). 

 *Miii-roylossa ghiiwoplagii Hampson, Joiini. Boinbai/ N. U. Sof. xiii. p. 40. n. 184 a. t. i;. f. 13 (1900) 



(Sikhim, 1300 ft. ;— Mus. Brit.). 



tj ?. No white line aliove eye ; jtalpi long, beneath white, speckled with black 

 scales ; breast greyish wood-brown ; head and thorax above with darker mesial 

 vitta, abdomen with two yellow side-jjatches, besides a vestige of a patch on second 

 segment, a double series of dark dorsal sjiots ; tail above blackish brown; side-tufts 

 of posterior segments with dark buff tijjs, those of proximal segments with white 

 tips, underside of abdomen uniform in colour. 



Wings, upperside. Forewing with the grey and the brownish black ]iarts 



rather shar])ly contrasting : antemedian lines curved, filled in with browuisli black, 

 this band dilated basad at hinder margin ; median inters])ace grey ; first and scctond 

 discal lines angnlated at R', concave between R' and hinder margin, interspace dark 

 except behind, first line generally not jiromincnt behind ; grey costal sj)ace extended 

 U> apex of wing, the snliajiical rufous (latcli S(I' — SC' being shaded over with grey, 

 grey p08t<liscal line witiiin this area conspicuous, R' grey between second and third 



