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line, the area behind the grey pateh bhickish, the grey area limited by the a]iical 

 triangular halfmoou, by the snbapical patch SC'' — R' and the grey line R'. Hind- 

 wing : yellow band somewhat variable in width, at W barely half the width of tlie 

 black border : fringe viuaceons cinnamon. 



Underside dark rnsset, more or less shaded with grey on bindwing ; yellow 

 abdominal area of hindwing not very sharply defined distally. 



S. Tenth tergite somewhat prisraatical, truncate at end ; sternite ronnded at 

 end. Clasper trit/i friction-scales ; harpe (PI. L. f. 44) very short, obtusely pointed, 

 conical. Process of penis-sheath dentate only at base, this dentition variable, 

 slightly extending on to the sheath ; internal rods obtuse at end. 



JIab. Japan to North India. 



lu the Tring Museum 8 cJcJ, S ? ? from : Kiushiu ; Sikhim. 



In coll. Charles Oberthiir several specimens from Sikhim. 



The yellow band of the hindwing is narrower in the type of ylancoplaga than 

 in other si)ecimens. 



590. Macroglossum godeffroyi. 



*Ehaiiiphoschisina ijudefroiji Butler, Ann. Muff. X. II. (5). x. p. 157 (18S:i) (Duke of York ;— Mas. 



Brit.). 

 Miia-oglossu gwlcffmi/i, Kirby, Cat. Lep. Met. i. p. 032. d. 52 (1892) ; Pageust., in Chuu, ZnnhMjim 



X. 29. p. 19. n. 21 (1900) ('-not seen"). 



c?. Under and internal surface uf foretarsus with long scaling, especially the 

 first segment. Mid- and hindtibia with very long hairs on underside which form a 

 large tuft similar to the tuft of the abdominal scent-organ ; first segment of tarsi 

 with long scales on ventral side, the tarsi not longer than the respective tibiae. 

 Dorso-lateral black spots of abdomen very jiromiuent. Antemedian band of fore- 

 wing very broad, disco-cellular veins within this band, which touclies in middle 

 a large disco-marginal area of the same colour, thus separating the grey median 

 space into a costal and a posterior patch ; a grey postdiscal subapical patch, 

 e.\tended distad to tmter margin. 



Tenth sternite broad, feebly sinuate. Harpe short, obtuse, compressed. Penis- 

 sheath with long and proximally broadened process which is dentate all over ; a 

 large patch of teeth at the left side of the sheath. 



llab. Nen Lanenburg = Duke of York Island. 



One S in the British Museum ; not seen in other collections. 



The tufts of the mid- and hindtibia are a very peculiar character not found 

 an} where else among Sphingidai'. 



597. Macroglossum fritzei spec. nov. (PI. III. f. 4, ?). 



?. Head and thorax dark grey, with a brown mesial line; a large triangular 

 mummy-brown patch on mesothoracic tegula conspicuously edged with grey ; 

 abdomen blackish brown, two large yellow side-patches ou segments 1' and ;{, and 

 a smaller one on 4 ; underside of palpus vinaceous grey, dark triauguliir lateral 

 patch not sharply marked ; breast pale vinaceous in middle, ilarker at sides ; 

 abdomen bright tawny, apical margins brown, a lateral series of conspicuous bnff 

 yellow spots. 



Wings, ahoce. Forewing : antemedian lines much more oblique than in 



other species, tilled in with deep brown, the band reaching costal margin in front 

 of apex of cell, conspicuously bordered with greyish white proximally ; fir>t and 



