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Rockhampton ; = «')./•) ; Kirby, Cal. Lcp. Hrl. i. p. 6:W. n. fil (1892) : Swinh.. Cd. L,p. Urt. 



Mux. Ox. i. p. 7. n. -'H (189-2) (Moreton Bay), 

 *.\lacroglussa nox Newman, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lmid. (2). iv. p. 54 (18o7) (Queensland ;— Mus. Brit.). 

 .\/urroglossii ethus Boisduval, I.e. (= iiiicuceii). 



3 ? . Without the blue gloss of splendens. Abdominal tergites 3 and 4 with 

 a transverse apical side-patch which is huffish white ; a trace of a similar patcii 

 also on the second segment ; tlie three basal sternites have a white or huffish 

 white mesial patch ; the prevaginal sternite is more or less white or grey. 

 Underside of palpus and breast purer white than in splendens. Patch and streak 

 before anal angle of hindwing above buff colour, not white ; white basal area 

 of the same wing below sharply limited distally in abdominal region and here 

 (.haded with buff at the edge. Fan-tail nnicolorous, often fading into elayish tawny 

 beneath and at the tip ; the ends of the scales never white. 



S. Clasper with friction-scales; harpe (PI. L. f. 29) elongate, curved uj)wanls, 

 obtuse at end, denticulated. Penis-sheath (PI. LVI. f. 40) with a long horizontal 

 process, which is dentate at and near the end ; two rows ofteetli near its base, 

 nearly as in axsiiiuU.-i ; inner rods flattened, rounded at end, the Ijroader one 

 denticulate at one edge. 



Hub. Queensland and Louisiade ArchipeUigo. 



In the Tring Museum 11 SS, \>< ? ? from : Queensland; Sudest, iv. (Meek). 



(ilG. Macroglossum splendens. 



.\J(iiiiii/luasu mirweij Walker, List Liji. Ins. 11. .1/. viii. p. 9(j. u. 21 (1856) (partim) : Pagcnst., in 



Chun, Ziiuhijica xii. p. 19. n. 20 (1900) (Mioko ; Kiniguuang). 

 *.\liwrtiijhissn nijx Butler (wm Newman, 1857), Pro'-. Znol. Siii\ Lund. p. 5. 7. t. I . f. G (1875) 



(Rockingham B. ;— Mus. Brit.) ; id., Trims. Zwil. Sur. Land. ix. p. 529. n. 40 (1877) ; Misk., 



Proc. lioi/. Sue. (Jnti'iisld. viii. p. 7. n. 7 (1K91) (Mackay ; Cardwell). 

 .Wiicroglosni s/ilendeiis Butler, Eidmii. xxv. p. 20 (1892) (= nox Butl. nun Newm.): Kirby, Cat. I^i/i. 



Jlet. i. p. 633. n. 62 (1X92), 



c??. Upperside of head and thorax green when fresh; abdominal tergites 

 without white side-patches, glossy bluish grey in side-light, some black patches 

 e.\cej)ted ; tips of lateral tufts white. Hindwing above bluish white before anal 

 angle : a bluish white streak before SM- ; pale costal area also bluish white behind, 

 and centre of wing with a blue gloss in side-light. Basal areas of both wings 

 below lilnish white. The scales of the anal brusli tipped with huffish white as a 

 rule, sometimes all black with the tips faintly tawny, seldom quite black in 

 Queensland individuals, nearly always so in the specimens from the Solomon 

 Islands; our only specimen from Buru has also no white tips to the fan; the 

 underside of the abdomen of these dark-tailed individuals has scarcely any wliite. 

 End-segment of antenna very long, ecpialling in length (ajiical liristlc e.\cei)ti'd) 

 I lie eight preceding segments. 



S. Harpe (PI. L. f. 'Zx) elongate, acute, without teeth. Penis-sheath witli a 

 long horizontal ]iroces8 curving round the moutli of the sheath, dentate at the lower 

 edge, two dentate ridges upon iXu: sheath at tlie base of the pi'ocess (PI. LVI. I'. ■"):!) ; 

 an acutely pointed process within the sheath. No friction-scales on clasjier. 



Cremuster of ]>upa broad, triangular, liilid (PI. LXIV. f. 'Z'Z). 



Ildlj. Pa]iuan Subregion. 



In the Tring Museum 1 pupa, :.'ii iS, •Z^\ ? ? from: Mt. Mada, Burn, i.\. '!i« 

 (iJumas;; Illo, Ceram; Queensland; Milne Bay, Brit. N. Guinea (Meek) ; Kiriwini, 

 Trobriand Is., iv. v. (Meek); Kiniguuang, N. Pommern (Ribbe); Mioko (Kibbe); 

 Isabel, vi. vii. (Meek k lOieUliom) ; Cuudalcanar, v. (lid.). 



