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of the segments are clayish buff, there is a pale line from the tongue case to 

 the tip of the forewings which ends in being black. Cremaster long, dark 

 brown on the ventral surface and with two minute points at the extreme tip. 



Length.— $, 25 mm. $, 37 mm. 



Time of pupation. — May to July and October to January. 



Situation. — In a cell just beneath surface of the ground. 



Macroglossum heliophila (Boisduval). 



Macroglossa heliophila, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. H^t., I, p. 354, n. 36, t. 

 II, f. 2 (1875). 



Macroglossa fringilla, Boisduval, I.e., p. 352, n. 33 (1875). 



Macroglossa loochooana, Rothschild, Nov. Zool., I, p. 67 (1894). 



Macroglossum heliophila, Rothschild, I.e. IX (Suppl.), pp. 645 and 904, n. 

 584 and 591, t. 3, f. &,{$), (1903). 



Habitat. — South India to the Loo Choo Islands, eastwards to the Moluccas. 

 (Roths.) 



Localities. — Nilgiri Hills, S. India ; Myitkyina and Upper Chindwin District, 

 N. Burma, and Insein District, S. Burma ; Tonkin ; Hongkong ; Loo Choo 

 Islands ; Formosa ; Sumatra ; Java ; Sarawak ; Philippine Islands ; Batjan. 



Elevation. — (Vertical range). 



Time of appearance.— Og%o\>qt to February. 



Occurrence. — Rare, but occurs over a wide area. 



Expanse. — $, 48 mm. 



Larva. — There are. two district varieties of the caterpillar. The green form 

 is coloured as follows : — In its first stage it is a bright green all over, and in the 

 second and third stages it assumes a greenish white hue, there is a white dorsal 

 and also a dorso-lateral line edged with green, and with slender green side stripes, 

 horn pinkish. In the fourth stage it becomes darker and more conspicuously 

 marked, the general colouring is much the same, but the side stripes are edged 

 with white. The other variety is perhaps the most beautiful of the two, it is 

 coloured as follows : — The dorsal surface is pink minutely spotted with darker 

 pink spots, which are orange on the 3rd to 6th segments, there is a dark green 

 dorso-lateral line from the head to the horn, bordered with bright yellow on 

 the 1st to 5th segments. The lateral and ventral surface is a dull green with 

 darker green oblique stripe from 4th to 12th segments. The head is green, 

 spiracles bright red brown, horn purplish shading into bright pink on the under 

 surface, tip yellow ; legs yellow, claspers bright pink with black bases. 



Length. — 56 mm. 



Time of appearancc—Octdhev to January. 



Food-plants. — A creeper with evil smelling leaves and large bunches of pretty 

 pink small flowers also on Morinda angustifolia. 



Pupa of the usual Macroglossum type, its distinguishing characters are as 

 follows : — Pale creamy yellow all over, a series of black stigmatical spots 

 encircling the spiracles. A black line commencing at the base of the tongue 

 e and en ding at the tips of the wings, a few small black dots and dashes 

 the V entral surface of the abdomen, the segments of which are' a buff colour. 

 Cremaster black, sharp pointed and curved backwards. The antennae, lega 

 and veinings of the wings are very distinct. 



Length.— $, 34 mm. $. 



Time of pupation.— Octoher to February and also June. 



Situation. — Amongst fallen leaves, etc., at or near roots of food-plant. 



Sub-family — CH.EEOCAMPiNiE. 

 Chceroca pinm, Butler, Trans. Zool. Soc, Lond., IX, pp. 546, 514 (1877), 

 (type : elpenor) ; Rothsch., Nov. Zool. IX (Suppl.), pp. 672, 909 (typus t 

 Pergesa elpenor). 



