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(Java) : Walk., /..■. xxxi. p. I'T (1804) : Boiad., S/kc. Geii. Lr/i. II,H. i. p. :14.S. n. iO (l**";')) : 

 But]., Tninx. Zm.l. S„c. Lmid. ix. p. u28. n. 32 (1877) : Kirby, Cut. Lrji. Url. i. p. 032. n. 50 

 (1H92) ; Huwe, Berl. Eiit. Zalsehr. xl. p. 357. n. 8 (18115) (Java). 



Cramer's figure agrees best with the insect characterised below ; the thora.x 

 of the sjieciiueu from which the figure was taken was cliscoloured, the yellow 

 abdominal spots are too large, the sinus before the abdominal angle of the hindwiug 

 is too deep, and there is only one discal line present in the figure instead of two, 

 the outer half of the f'orewing being altogether too roughly drawn, though the 

 curved black submargiual band of the insect is rather well represented in the fignre. 

 The peculifir curve of the costal margin of the forewing is well indicated in the fignre. 

 •So far no specimen from South India has come to onr notice, but that does not 

 prove the locality " Coromandel " given by (.'ramer to be erroneous. 



S ? . The largest Macroi/tossum known. Resembling jiussalus in the dark base 

 of the forewing, the prominent straight antemedian band, the vinaceous grey median 

 area, the feeble first discal line, the dark band-like shade extending from apex 

 of forewing to R- and then curving distad, ending at distal margin before angle, etc. 

 It difters in the yellow abdominal side-patches being comparatively smaller, in the 

 abdominal sternite bearing large pale mesial patches, at least the proximal ones, 

 in the antemedian lines of the forewing being more distinctly separate from one 

 another, the second discal line being much thinner, the inters])ace between the first 

 and second discal lines not being filled in with black anteriorly, and the black curved 

 snbmarginal shade being more distinctly baud-like. Besides, the underside is 

 deeper brown and the base of the hindwiug oliviously shaded with yellow, and the 

 n])perside of the thorax (sometimes also the first abdominal tergites) is green 

 without a darker sharply defined area on the mesothoracic tegula. 



6. Genital armature similar to that of passalKs, but the barpe (Fl. L. 

 f. 42) longer, with the tip more strongly recurved and more obviously denticulated ; 

 the jirocess of the penis-sheath (PI. LVI. f. 30) longer, more acute, with tiie 

 jiatch uf teeth at and near its base as in jmssuIms, but the teeth smaller, and the 

 underside of the process densely denticulated. 



Huh. South India (Cramer) to Java, Borneo, and the Loo Choo Islands. 

 In the Tring Museum u (?<?, 8 ? ? from: Okinawa, viii. '91 (Dr. Fritze) ; 

 Peuang and Perak (Curtis) ; W. Java. 



The Loo Choo specimens are smaller and have the costal edge of the forewing 

 a little less curved. 



A S from Borneo in coll. Pagenstecher. 



filL Macroglossum meeki si]ec. nov. (PI. IV. f. 2, S). 



S. Similar to jmssalus and faro. Head slate-colour, with darker middle line : 

 thorax above olivaceous green, mesothoracic tegula unicolorous as mfaro, without 

 the oblique line of passalus bordering a darker area ; abdominal tergites without 

 dark dorsal basal dots, third with two white spots, three yellow side-patches on 

 segments 2 to 4, separated from one another, side-tufts all tipj)ed with yellow, not 

 white, anal tuft also with yellow tip ; paljius below slaty grey, speckled with white, 

 breast and legs clayish ochraceons, femora and sides of breast brownish ; three 

 basal abdominal sternites yellow, with side-patches of burnt umber ((ilnur, tlio 

 following segments burnt-naiber. 



Wings, uppersidr. Forewing : second antemedian line (piitc straight, 



forming a Imnd with the first line, this barely traceable on account of the basaJ area 



