(657 ) 



Length of forewing : ?, 22 mm. 



Ilab. Queensland. 



One ? in tbe collection of Mousienr I'Abbe de Joannis, who kindlj- lent it ns 

 for description and figuring. 



Abundantly distinct from all other known Macroglo,ssiun by the four yellow 

 abdominal side-patches and the bright underside of the hindwing, together with the 

 jiattern and colour of the npper surface of body and wings. 



6ul. Macroglossum semifasciata. 



*.l/((rT"(//'/ss" seiiiif'isciutii Hampson, in Blanf., Fainia Bril. /ml., .Ihillis i. p. 115. p. 187 (18il2) 



(E. Pegu ; Labuan ;-Mus. Brit.). 

 '.\[ari-iuil<issii fai-'i, Piepers (h"« Cramer, 1780), Tijihrhr. Ent. xl. p. 48. n. 1^0. p. 101. t. 3. f. 10 



(/.) (1897) (Java). 



S ? . Yellow side-patches of abdomen very small, vestigial, the black patches 

 prominent, seventh segment with a black mesial patch, anal tuft dark, side-tufts 

 wbite-tipped ; palpns grey, breast darker, abdomen with ill-detined buftish grey 



mesial patches on pro.ximal segments, seventh sternite more or less grey in ? . ■ 



Forewing, above, with the interspace between the two oblique antomedian lines 

 tilled up with black in posterior half, this band narrow, curved basad behind ; 

 first and second discal lines not very distinct, interspace not filled up with black. 



Base of hindwing more extended black than in the allied species, especially in 



a c? from Java, joined along abdominal margin to distal border. In this 6 the 

 yellow area of the hindwing below not reaching halfway to tip of SM-, while 

 it extends to the third discal line in specimens from other places. 



S from Java. Tenth tergite truncate ; sternite rounded at end, cariuate 

 above. Clasper witk friction-scales ; harpe (PI. L. f 32) slender, pointed. Process 

 of penis-sheath (PI. LVI. f. 47) obtuse, dentate, its base projecting, two rows of 

 teeth at its base ; longer internal rod acuminate, but not produced into a needle- 

 like process. 



Larva (fig. by Piepers), when adult, blackish brown, dotted with grey, a 

 pale dorso-lateral line on head and pronotum ; a dark dorsal line from head to 

 lioru ; this long. Stage before last : head and anterior segment (or segments), 

 sometimes also the middle part of the back, green. 



Ilah. P)Urma to Borneo and Java. 



In tlie Tring Museum 2 S6 from : Borneo ; Java (Piepers). 



In c'ljl. Staudinger from S.E. Borneo (Wahnes) and Kinabalu (Wat erst radt). 



ODJ. Macroglossvim aquila. 



*.\Jui:i;glij,i>iii •iijn,I,i Boisduval, ,S/iei: (iiii. L([i. Ilii. i. p. 340. u. 30 (1875) (CocLiucliiua ; Hilliet ; — 



coll. Charles Obertljiir) ; Kirby, Cut. hp. IIH. i. p. 631. n. 29 (1892). 

 *Mm-ruiilimii inleini/ita Butler, J'rur. Xmil. Sue. Lund. p. 242. n. 10. t. 37. f. 2 (1875) (Darjiliug ;— 



Mm. Brit.); id., 'J'miu. Zn;l. S(„: L.mil. ix. p. .52«. n. 21 (1877); Kirby, /..-. n. 32 (1892); 



Haiiips., in Blanf., h'iKini ISi-il. Intl., Mutlm i. p. 119. n. 201 (1892) { = (iqiiihi) ; Uudg., Jiiki-ii. 



IS„ml,ii!j X. //. S„c. xi. p. 419. u. 201 (1898) (Sikbim, 1000 ft., ix.). 



cf V. ,Suba[iii-al spot .SU''— it' of forewing above as prominent as in (i.ssimili.s, 

 BDtcmedian lines more proximal than in other species ; costal edge ol' hindwing 

 dilated into a lobe before middle. 



6. Tenth tergite gradually narrowed, api'x obtuse, slightly curv(!(l down wards ; 

 Bteruilc rounded at end. Clasjier willi friction-scales; harpe short, stout (I'l. LI. 

 f. 'i}, with Die upperside excavated, and llie edges denlair, looking like ii Iciotli- 



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