( fifi7 ) 



lining iiPiirly ns ikrk as the band, nipdian aroa vinacoous grey, gradually shading off 

 distally, first discal line scarccdy visible, second a little more prominent, evenly 

 curved in front, followed by a broad black band which extends from costal margin 

 near tip to hinder margin at anal angle, distal edge of the baud well defined, 



concave, marginal area drab. Hindwing : yellow baud interrupted, not reaching 



costal edge, not prodnced to near ajiex of wing (see figure), brown border broad, 

 convex in middle. 



Underside walnut-brown, distal borders mummy-brown, extreme base of 

 forewing, liase and abdominal area of hindwing, yellow, disc of hindwing also 

 shaded with yellow posteriorly. 



S . Genital armatnre as in ftiro, but tip of harpe not denticulate. 



Length of forewing : S, 27 mm. 



Huh. Milne Bay, British N. Guinea, February ISiiO (A. S. Meek). 



1 6 in tlic Tring Museum. 



Distinguished from passalus ami fni-d by the li -oad black postdiscal baud of 

 the forewing extending from costal to internal margin, by the interrupted yellow 

 band of the hindwing, by the antemediau band of the forewing being more distal 

 behind, the white spots on the second abdominal segment, etc. 



612. Macroglossum mitchelli. 



*.\ft(n-nghiss,i iiiilrhrlli Mt'riL'trii'S, Kiiinii. Vnrji. Aiiini. Pilr., Leji. p. 05. n. 1580 (1857) (Java ; num. 

 hitkxn:) : Boisduval, .S//«-. Gni. Lf/i. Nil. i. p. .S51. n. :51. t. 8. f. 5 (1875) (Java :— coll. Charles 

 Oberthiir). 



<S ?. This conspicuous insect is easily recognised by the head and thorax being 

 marked with a very dark broad median stripe which divides the pinkish grey surface 

 into two strijies. The black discal band of the forewing i.s triangularly dilated 

 behind IV, joining the subapieal and apical black spots. 



(J. Tenth tergite truncate-sinuate, single rounded ; sternite incrassate at the 

 rounded apex. Clasper i/it/i friction-scales ; harpe (PI. LI. f. 9) similar to that 

 of kcUojiliild. obtuse, somewhat curved upward-s at end, not dentate. Process of 

 jienis-sheath nearly as in heliophiia, more curved proximad, thin apical part not 

 quite 80 long (PI. LVL f. 28). 



Hah. Indo-Malayan Subregion. 



Two subsiiecies : 



It. .1/. witrhelli mitchelli. 

 *Mui-r,„f\„mi. miUhi'Ui Boisduval, l.r. ; Kirby, ('«/. /,//-. lid. i. p. l!3--'. n. 5il (18112). 



?. Median band of hindwing very pale yellow, narrow, slightly shaded with 

 black in middle, at K^ barely half the width of the Idack marginal border. 



Hab. Java. 



One ? in coll. Gharles Obertliiir (////'*■)• 



h. M. initclirlli i III pi' rut 01'. 



*.Uiirri,iilm»i m/inril'if Butler, J'rnc. /Ciml. ,S'ic. Lund. p. 24.'i. n. 15. t. .37. f. 4 (1870) (Ceylon ; - 

 MuH. Brit.) ; id., TmiiH. /.mil. ,SV. Lnwl. ix. p. 5-29. n..')!!. (1877) ; Moore, Up. Ci'i/lon ii. p. (i;i2. 

 n. 55. t. yo. f. I (18K-J) ; HampH., IIIiikIi: Tijii. S/„;ini. I.ep. Ihl. II. .1/. viii. p. 1. n. i:i (18;il) 

 (.N'llljiriti, i;i)IIO ft.) ; Kirby, I.e. n. .55 (181(2); HaiiipR., in Bluiif., Fnumi liril. hid., .Unllin 'i. 

 l>. 1 18. n. 1117 n81)2) (.Sikbiiii ; Niigiris ; Ceylon) ; id., /IIiihIi'. T1//1. .^/iciim. I.i/i. Ilrl. It. .1/. ix. 

 p. 4. n. 00 (1811.1) (K.-ind.'.pollu, Ceylon) ; Dudg., .Inimi. llnmlxiij .V. //. .Sw. ,\i. p. 418. n. I!>7 

 (181)8) (Sikbim, 5(101) ft.). 



