MACEOGLOSSA.— :sETlUA. 59 



Macroglossa gilia, Herr.-Schdff. (Plate CLXXV. fig. 6.) 

 Macroglossa gilia, H.-S. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. pi. 23. fig. 107. 



Larva (adult). Bright greea ; a pale nicdio-dorsal stripe with browuish median line; a 

 pale dorso-lateral stripe, edged above with reddish brown, the space between this and the 

 medio-dorsal stripe speckled with minute brownish spots ; stigmata black ; 8-9 brownish 

 diagonal stripes alternating with the spiracles ; below the medio-dorsal line minutely speckled 

 with white; horn black, with yellow tips. Legs pink ; claspers brownish. 



There is a paler variety of the larva in which the red-brown markings are replaced l)y 

 olive-green. 



Feeds on Rubiacece. 



Pupa dull yellowish brown ; stigmata enclosed in large blackish spots ; anal spine black. 



Mr. Butler's figure (Trans. Zool. Soc. 1876, pi. 90. figs. 9, 10) is of a young larva of 

 M. pyrrhosticta from Japan, from a drawing by G. Lewis, and not M. gilia. 



NOTODONTID^. 



Ramesa luridivitta. (Plate CLX. fig. 12.) 



Expanse S I3 inch. 



Male. Fore wing fuscous, with reddish streaks from the upper end of cell to apex, and 

 from origin of the first median uervule to outer margin, both broad externally ; a series of 

 black specks on small white spots on the margin. Hiud wing pale fuscous. Antennse pale ; 

 head and thorax smoky black ; abdomen fuscous. 



A dark race of R. tosta, Wlk., the fore wing with no postmedial series of specks. 



Netria viridescens, Wlk., var. griseata, Hmpsn. (Plate CLX. fig. 14.) 



Netria viridesccus, 117^. Cat. vi. p. 1504. 



Expanse $ 2\}, inches. 



Female. Fore wing with a basal greenish patch, bounded externally by two irregularly 

 sinuous black lines, followed by a broad whitish band ; then a broad median brownish band, 

 bordered internally hy an irregularly sinuous and a dentate black line and externally by 

 two dentate lines and an irregularly sinuous line ; outer area whitish fuscous, with a sul)- 

 marginal irregularly dentate black line. Hind wing and imderside pale fuscous. Anteuna; 

 ochreous. 



Very much paler than typical N. viridescens, Wlk. 



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