( fiof) ) 



dilated distad behind 11', brownish blaek subajiical spot SC'' — 11' distinct, a rufous spot 

 ill front of it, grey postdiscal line as close in front to second discal as this is to first. 

 Yellow band of hindwing constricted, the blaek border strongly convex, broad. 



L'ndcrsidc chestnut, distal margins brown, base of forewing and basal ihird of 

 hindwing yellow, abdominal area of the latter deeper yellow, sharper delined 

 distally, about 2 mm. short of tip of SM^. 



Length of forewing : ¥ , 24—25 mm. 



Hub. Solomon Islands : Guadalcauar and Florida. 



In the Triug Jluseum 3 ? ? from : Guadalcanar, March and May, ti/jje ; 

 Florida, January (Messrs. A. S. Meek & Eichhorn). 



Reminding one by the yellow tail of M. cori/fhns fahicaadafa, but distinguished 

 by the tail being entirely yellow, the [)receding segment being of about the same 

 colour, with a black median patch, and by the different pattern of the forewing. 



60o. Macrog'lossum corythus. 



'.U<icirii/losi«i curi/tlms Walker, LisI Lyj. Ins. B. M. viii. p. 'J2. n. 14 (1856) (partim ; Ceylon, 

 Canara ;— Mus. Brit.) ; Pagenst., Ahh. Senk. Nat. GcseUxch. xxiii. p. 443. n. 421 (1H97) 

 (Celebes; Batjan). 



(??. Geographically, sexually, and individually variable in the amount of 

 yellow ou body and wings; not difficult to recognise by the pattern of the forewing. 

 Head and thorax with a distinctly dsii'ker mesial line in fresh specimens; abdomen 

 with three yellow side-patches, variable in size, separate from each other, the first 

 always transverse; tail below yellow or tawny, never all black. 



Wings, upjier.'iide. Forewing with the antemedian lines straight, the basal 



area darker than the greyish median interspace, but not so dark as in jxiissalus ; 

 first and second discal lines rather far apart, very slightly curved ; third line 

 vestigial, a grey submarginal space from IV backwards, often blue in side-light, 

 separated from or almost joined to a small discal costal space of the same 



colour; no tlistinctly marked dark subapical spots. Hindwmg : median baud 



deep chrome, base and distal margin black, inner edge of distal border covered 

 by yellow hairs and scales, median veins more or less black, the yellow band often 

 interrupted, esi)ecially in cJt?. 



Underside variable, abdominal area of hindwing yellow. 



(J. Tenth tergite truncate or rounded at end; sternite long, side-shaped, 

 rounded at end, here iucrassate, upperside transversely carinate, somewhat raiseil 

 iu mesial line. tJlasper with friction-scales; harpu (I'l. L. I'. 41j long and 

 pointed in all foiins, reacliiiig nearly to the end of tlie clasper, dillering obviously 

 from that of all otlier Macrogloamni. renis-sheath with two internal rods, generally 

 not visible without the sheath being opened, ww of the rods produced into an 

 acute point (PI. LVI. f 40j, the other obtuse ; dentate jjrocess somewhat 

 variable in length and dentition, tip anil apical part of distal edge apparently 

 always dentate, the jiroxiiual edge dentate from base to apex, a number of teetli 

 upon tlie sheath near the base of the ju'ocess. 



Length of forewing varying from 2U to :si) mm. 



Larvae and pupae figured by Moore and Semper (see below sub .1/. cori/tltus 

 luteata and runjUmn). 



Iliilj. .Japan, China, N. Jiidi;i, and ( 'cylon, I'astwards all over the liuh)-Aust raliaii 

 Inlands to New Caledonia. 



The Beven subspecies are not sharjily delined ; in :i hmg series of specimens 



