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Ilalj. Bismarck Ai'oliipelatjn and Solomon Island'!. 



Tlie most yellow form. The specimens from the Bismarck Archipelago are 

 not unite so yellow as those from the Solomons, approaching a little the Pajinau 

 subspecies jji/lene. 



In the Tring Museum 12 (?<?, 22 ? ? from: Guadalcanar, iv. v. (Meek k 

 Eicbhoru); Florida, i. (iid.) ; Isabel, vi. vii. (iid.); N. Georgia, iii. (iid.); Shortland 

 Is. (Ribbe) ; Kinignuang, N. Tommern (Riblie) ; Mioko fHihbe) ; St. Gabriel. 

 Admiralty Is. (Webster). 



I/. M. covijthHS f'iscieauda snbsji. nov. 

 *Mrin'orilosm mohuvetisis Rothschild, Nov. Zciiii.. i. p. (17 (18il4) (partim ; Lifu). 



(? ? . Anal tuft above ocbraceons only at the tip or quite brownish black, 

 more or less tawny on underside ; side-tufts of segments 4 to G yellow ; underside 

 of abdomen nearly as dark hazel as the wings, middle of segments sometimes 

 somewhat paler; side of breast and tibiae like abdomen, middle dirty grey ; palpus 

 greyish white. Yellow band of hiudwing above broad, marginal border narrower 

 behind than in j/i/leiie ; underside rather less extended yellow than in pi/lrni' on an 

 average. 



llab. Lifu, Ijoyalty Islands. 



In the Tring Museum Ki (?(?, 3 ? ?. 



fiiKi. Macroglossum multifascia spec. nov. (PI. YI. f 7, <?). 



cJ ? . Dark chocolate ; head and thorax with a greyish flush ; abdomen with 

 one yellow transverse spot situated on third segment, a white dorso-lateral spot 

 on fourth segment and some white scaling on last segments, side-tnfts tipjied with 

 white : tail chocolate-tawny above in c?, paler beneath, paler in ¥ than in <S , tip 

 not paler than base. Palpus below dirty grey like forecoxae, being clothed with 

 a mixture of black and white scales ; abdomen ferruginous tawny beneath, middle 

 fuscous and shaded with grey. 



Wings, ahori: Forewing : three lines in basal half, three jiarallel discal 



lines curve<l costad in front, a scalloped postdiscal line(?, ti/pe), which is barely 

 vestigial in c?, interspaces more or less white, a conspicuous white submarginal line 



in S, stopping at \{\ Yellow band of hindwing not interrupted, broader in ? 



than in i. 



I'mhrmdc fcrruginons-tawny on disc, brown distal border rather prominent ; 

 hindwing shaded with yellow from base to marginal band in ?, less extended 

 yellow in ? . 



$. Clasper without friction-scales; harpc small, process straight, horizontal, 

 obtuse, finger-shajied, liut more conical. Penis-sheath (not perfect, no process 

 jireHcrved) with internal rods rounde<l at end. 



Hull. Sarawak, Borneo (Pryer), 1 ? (///;«') in P.ritish Mnscuni ; Java? 

 (Flescli), ] $ in Mus. Budapest, here figured. 



The peculiar striping of the forewing distinguishes this species abundantly from 

 any other Mncroi/UMaion,. 



007. Macroglossum tinnunculus. 



*.\/,irn,,j/„Hm /;/(»»/»■«/«» ]i(jiwluval, .S>r. Uai. Up. lliH. i. p. ;!4-l. n. I'D (lH7r.) (Saigon ;— coll. 

 CharleH Ol.erthiir) ; Kirby, Cat. Lip. Hit. i. p. r,.'!-.'. n. Ul (1«'.I-J). 

 ?. Sin.ihir to licmirhromii, but the ordinary .\/ucroglossum-\\w» of the fore- 

 wing ninch more disliiict: a shiidowy liiind exiciiding from near middle of costa' 



