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SOO. Macroglossum vidua sjiec. nov. (PI. III. f. 15, ?). 



? . Colour of body above not well preserved, apparent!}' no dark middle strijie 

 on head and thorax, mesothoracic tegula darker brown behind, without a sharply 

 defined triangular patch ; abdomen with three small yellow side-patches, second 

 the largest, tail dark, a black mesial patcli at base ; underside of palpus and 

 middle of breast dirty grey, the white scaling being much mixed with drab-brown 

 scales, sides rather darker, abdomen also grey (much rubbed). 



"Wings, apjjerside. Forewiug : antemedian baud filled in with black, broad, 



deeper black at outer edge, dilated basad behind ; median interspace greyish ; 

 discal lines indistinct, situated in an ill-defined broad shadowy band ; area between 

 this and distal edge of wing faintly greyish, excepting costal part, whicli is brown ; 



no distinct snbapioal spots, no grey postdiscal costal patch. Hindwing : yellow 



band interrupted, reduced, ill-defined. 



Uiidenide of both wings dark walnut-brown, dull, somewhat olivaceous distally, 

 without distinct browu border, bases faintly greyish, yellow abdominal area of 

 hindwing restricted, sharply defined. 



Length of forewing : ? , 22 mm. 



llah. Waigeu I. 



One S in coll. Charles Oberthilr, received from Messrs. Staudiuger A 

 Bang-Haas. 



Resembling glaucoptera and small specimens of M. cori/thus luteata and 

 M. syli'ia ; recognisable by the dirty grey colour of the palpi below, the greyish, 

 not distinctly yellow, bases of the wings below, the broad antemedian band of 

 the forewing, etc. 



6UU. Macroglossum joannisi spec. nov. (PI 111. f. 2, ?). 



? . Head and thorax olive-grey, the scales with pale tips ; without dark mesial 

 stripe ; mesothoracic tegula somewhat deeper brown behind, like metanotum ; 

 abdomen shaded with grey mesially, four yellow side-patches, transverse diameter 

 of second nearly as long as the diameter of the dorsal interspace ; sixth tergitc 

 blackish brown at sides and base, seventh black in middle, yellowish buff at base, 

 chestnut at sides, tail tawny at end. Underside of palpus white, middle of breast 

 clayish grey, sides vinaceous clay-colour, abdomen cinnamon-rufous, paler in middle, 

 tail the same colour, side-tufts yellow, that of seventh segment black at base, tlieu 

 yeUow, and white at the tip. 



Wings, iijjpcrsuh:. Forewiug : snbbasal and median interspaces obviously 



grey, disc also shaded with grey ; antemedian band curved, black ; discal lines 

 very slightly curved, not distinctly angulated at II', interspace not cpiite filled in 

 with black ; jjostdiscal line complete, the interspace between second discal and 

 postdiscal line grey, this colour extended distad between W and SM-, not reaching 

 margin, no scjiarate costal postdiscal patch ; dark subajiical sjwts SC^ — li' of other 



species here vestigial, barely deeper in tint than the browu marginal border. 



Hindwing: yellow band interrupted, much suflused with black, not sharply marked, 

 except in cell. 



Underside of forewing dark walnut-brown, yellow at base; no distinct distal 



border. Hindwing briglit cinnamon-rufous, brighter than the abdomen, base and 



abdominal area yellow, the latter not sharply limited distally, extreme edge of wing 

 and fringe deeper brown. 



