( fifiS ) 



c??. Median bainl of hiiulwing (lee|icr yellow, miicli Ijroader, at R' abont as 

 wide as the marginal border. 



Hah. Ceylon ; S. and N. India. 



In tlie Tring Museum (i S 6 from : Ciierrapnnji ; Khasia and .Taiutia Hills. 



613. Macroglossum phocinum spec. nov. (PI. III. f. 1, ?). 



?. Head and thorax deep olive, witli a dark mesial stripe ; abdomen blaeldsh 

 olive, a jiair of black basal spots on third segment; large lilack side-patches, 

 enlarged on fourth and fifth segments, no yellow patches ; underside of jialpns 

 and middle of breast and of basal sternite of abdomen dirty grey, sides of breas^t 

 and legs broccoli-brown, abdomen blackish brown, side-tufts tipped with bnffish 

 white, except last. 



"Wings, above. — Forewing deep olive, lines not very distinct, the two antemediau 

 ones more or less filled in with dark scaling, curved, the baud dilated basad 

 behind, its outer edge at lower angle of cell more distal than usually; first 

 discal line vestigial, fused with second antemedian, excejjt in front, second discal 

 broad, angled aud dilated distad behind R' ; costal postmedian grey patch distinct, 

 longer than broad, R' grey ; postdiscal line and its grey border distinct, dentate, 



two blackish brown subapical jjatches SC^— R'. Hindwing dark seal-brown, 



without yellow band, shaded with burnt-umber colour at and before abdominal 

 margin. 



Underside Front's brown, base of hindwing shaded with cinnamon and grey, 

 abdominal area dark burnt-umber, not yellow. 



Length of forewing : ? , 25 mm. 



Hub. Guadalcanar, Solomon Islands, March and April inOl (A. S. Meek k 

 Eichhorn). 



2 ? ? in the Tring Mnsenm. 



There is nothing known with which this species could possibly be confounded. 

 It comes nearest to pro)netheus in the pattern of the forewing. 



614. Macroglossum buruensis (PI. IV. f. 4, ?, t>ipe). 



'.V,iern,;lnssiim biiriin,-<h Holland, Nnv. Znoi.. vii. p. fM. n. 159 (1900) (Burn ;— coll. Holland). 



?. A very peculiar species. Abdomen black; no side-patches (the tawny 

 spots in figure being due to the scales being rubbed oif); third tergite with 

 a butfish dorso-latcral apical transverse spot as in mee/ti ; last white side-tuft large; 

 underside contrasting sharply with the chalky white breast, this white colour 

 extending triangularly to the base of the third segment (second sternite), a minnte 

 mesial dot on sternite of seventh segment. Fore- and midleg.s and hiudfeiunr 



like breast, hindtibia aud -tarsus like abdomen. Forewing abore with the bands 



not prominent but distinct (see figure) ; hindwing unicolorous ; base of both wings 

 below white, this colour restricted, reaching on hindwing about halfway to 

 end of SM^ 



ffnb. Burn. 



(Jidy one ? known, in coll. Dr. Holland. 



Oh"). Macroglossum micacea. 



*.\hvrn,ihmi tiimirea Walker, Lhl U/,. Inx. li. M. viii. p. 'jti. n. 21 (IS.Ort) (partim ;-Mus. Brit.) ; 

 Bo'isd., Spec. Ghi. Ui>. Ilil. i. (). :V>C,. n. .-i'.! (Wlh) ; Butl., 7V««s. Z,u,l. Sot: ImiiL i.K. p. .Wit. 

 n. ?.'.) (1877) (Moreton Bay) ; Misk., r,;,,-. Itoxj. Sac. QueenM. viii. p. 7. n. (IHUl) (Brisbane; 



