MACROGLOSSA. HEMARIS. 119 



GROUP II. Male with the costa of the hind wing produced into 

 a triangular lobe covered with black scales, which is folded 

 over on the upper surface of the wing. 



201. Macroglossa interrupta, Butl P. Z. S. 1875, p. 242, pi. 37, fig. 2 ; 



C. $ S. no. 23. 

 Macroglossa aquila, Boisd. Sphing. p. 340 ; C. fy S. no. 21. 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown ; abdomen with 

 broad yellow and black lateral bands on the 3rd and 4th segments ; 

 underside bright red, with some white on the first three segments ; 

 small white lateral tufts ; a white spot on the penultimate seg- 

 ment ; palpi and pectus white. Fore wing brown, with a purplish 

 gloss ; the basal area suffused with black, obscuring the lines ; the 

 three postmedial lines present ; a dark mark on the outer margin 

 below the apex above the usual subapical streak. Hind wing with 

 the yellow band much indented. Underside red ; hind wing with 

 three transverse lines. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Sylhet. Exp. 54 millim. 



Genus HEMARIS. 

 Hemaris, Dalm. Vet. Akad. Handl p. 207 (1816). 



Type, H. scabiosce, Zell., from Europe. 



Range. JSTearctic and Palaearctic regions. 



Disk of wings usually hyaline ; the palpi much shorter than in 

 Macroglossa, the shape and antennae similar. Pore wing with vein 

 ] absent, 9 sending some veinlets to the costa and anastomosing 

 with 8 just before the apex; cell of hind wing short. 



202. Hemaris fuciformis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, (2) p. 8Q3, 



Hemaris simillima, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 391 ; C. $ S. no. 4 A. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with long, fine, olive-green 

 pile ; the 3rd and 4th segments of abdomen dark red ; anal tufts 

 black. Fore wing hyaline, with costa and inner margin olive- 

 green ; the outer margin with a broad dark-red band ; a disco- 

 cellular black band. Hind wing hyaline, the inner margin olive- 

 green, the outer margin dark red ; the cilia brown. 



Hab. Europe ; Kangra. Exp. 46 millhn. 



203. Hemaris saundersi, Wlk. Cat. viii, p. 83 ; C. $ S. no. 4. 



Differs from fuciformis in the head, thorax, and abdomen being 

 normally scaled. Fore wing without the discocellular band ; the 



