( 655 ) 



second discal line irrcgalarly dentate, curved costad in front, interspace not filled 

 in, a jiale space M'— SM- between second discal and postdiscal line, the latter line 

 dentate, with a sharply marked buflfish border ; subapical spot SC* — SC'' somewhat 



rufons, the next spot blackish. Hindwiug : yellow band broad, black border of 



wing correspondingly narrow, its inner edge almost straight. 



Undersidf peculiar. Forewiug : rnfous-chestnnt, blackish brown border very 



distinct, owing to a series of irregular buff-yellow postdiscal patches, patch R' — R" 

 vestigial ; within these patches there are two thin dentate lines ; extreme base 



yellowish. Hindwing : reddish anteriorly, base and abdominal area yellow, this 



colour gradually shading off on disc, only 1 mm. short of tip of SM" ; brown border 

 sharply marked, indications of ])ale yellow spots at its inner edge ; discal lines 

 reddish. 



Length of forewing : ? , 21 mm. 



Ilab. Loo Choo Islands and China. 



In the Tring Museum 1 ? from Okinawa, July 1891 (Dr. A. Fritze), tijpe. 



Another specimen (?) in the British Bluseum from Hongkong. 



Differs from all other species in the very oblique autemedian band of the 

 forewing. 



598. Macroglossum glaucoptera. 



*.\f,iennjl,,sMi rjhiiioititeni Butler, P/-» •. ZmA. Soc. Loud. p. 241. n. 7. t. 36. f. 9 (1875) (Oeylou ; — 



Mus. Brit.) ; id., Trims. Znol. Hue. Lfiiid. ix. p. 525. n. 16 (1H77) ; Moore, Le/i. Ceyliiii ii. p. 30. 



t. 93. f. 3. 3a {{l.,i>., i) (1882) ; Kirby, Oil. Lrp.Uet. i. p. 631. n. 37 (18112) ; Hamps., in Blanf., 



Fauiui Brit, hid., Mntlin i. p. 115. n. VM (1892) (Ceylon). 

 .Miicrogliis'ii nbscnricpji.i Butler, Pruc. Zunl. Sm: Lmul. p. 309. n. 3. t. 22. f. 5(1870) (Ayerpanes, 



Malacca); id., Tniiis. Zimi. Sm: Lmid. ix. p. 1)35 (1877) ; Swinh., Cat. Lip. Ilrl. Mn.-:. O.c. i. 



p. 7. D. 26 {1H'.I2) (Singapore) : Kirby, I.e. p. 6;i0. n. 15 (1892). 

 *.\luiriifjlussii IpjikIiii Butler, Trims. Znul. Sur. Lmid. ix. p. 635 (1877) (Calcutta ; — coll. Atkinson, 



now in coll. Standinger). 

 .Maa-oijlimta fuscatii Huwe, Berl. Enl. ZeiUdir. xl. p. 35n. n. 11. t. 3. i.i> (<^) (1895) (Java). 



c? ? . Similar to small specimens of M. rori/tkn.-i lutcata. 



Wings, uppevside. Forewing deep in tint, dark bniwn in basal area, the 



two antemedian lines little darker, filled in with dark brown ; median interspace 

 greyish, wider in front than behind, discal lines not prominent, first and second 



very feebly curved, more or less filled in with dark brown. Hindwiug : yellow 



band narrow, more or less interrupted in S ■, sometimes only vestigial ; distal border 



very broad, broader behind than in western rori/lhiis. Basal areas of both wings 



shaded with yellow beneath, yellow abdominal area of hindwing not sharply 

 limited distally. 



d. Tenth tergite (I'l. XLV. f. (ij truncate, slightly sinuate, the angles 

 Bomewliat projecting laterad. Clasper witii a few friction-scales ; harpe ("PI. L f :!'.)) 

 Bimilar to that oi semi/asciata, much shorter than in cori/llms, extreme tij) trunc^ate 

 and notched (PI. L. f. 40). Process of penis-sheath (PI. LVI. I 22) very long, 

 dentate at the jiniximal edge, very long teeth ujion the sheath near the base of the 

 lirocess, besides nuiuerons small ones ; internal rods both ac'umiimte. 



Ilab. (Jeylon t(j Java. 



In the Tring Museum 1 (^, 1 ? fi'oni I'enang anil ( 'eyioii. 



There is probably an eastern Indo-Malayan and a western lndu-< Vylonese 

 •nbttpucibH. 



