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EHAMPHOSCHISMA NIGEIFASCIATA (Plate 92, Fig. 1). 

 Macroglosea nigrifasciata, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 241, pi. 37, fig. 3. 



Forewing purplish greyish-brown, crossed by a prominent black erect antemedial 

 band whicb is narrowest at tbe costal end and the borders slightly concave ; a less 

 prominent postmedial recurved band which is angulated outwardly near the costal 

 end ; a very indistinct submarginal line, and a black spot below the apex: hindwing 

 with a narrow black outer border and basal streaks, and a very broad orange-yellow 

 band. Body ohvaceous-brown ; palpi beneath, and legs greyish-brown ; abdomen 

 with lateral orange-yellow spots ; anal tuft interspersed with ohve-brown. 



Expanse 2 inches. 



EHAMPHOSCHISMA GLATICOPTEEA (Plate 91, Fig. 2). 

 Macroglossa glaucoptera, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 241, pi. 36, f. 9. 

 Forewing dark purplish-grey, crossed by a nearly erect antemedial dark purple- 

 brown band which is broadest on posterior margin; a slightly recurved erect 

 purple-brown postmedial band, and two recurved submarginal lines : hindwing dark 

 purple-brown, crossed by a broad orange-yellow band. Body dull ferruginous olive- 

 brown ; middle of thorax, head, and palpi above purplish-grey ; palpi beneath, and 

 legs grey ; anal tuft purple-black. 

 Expanse 2 inches. 



Genus MACROGLOSSA. 



Macroglossum, Scopoli, Ins. Carn. p. 414 (1777). 



Macroglossa, Ochsenheimer, Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 41 (1S16) ; Walker; Boisd. 



Bortibylia, Hiibner, Tentamen, p. 1 (1806). 



Psitlnjros, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 132 (1818-25). 



Forewing narrow, elongated ; apex pointed, exterior margin oblique, slightly 

 convex ; first subcostal emitted at one-third and second at one-tenth before end of 

 the cell, fifth from end of the cell ; discocellular very oblique, shghtly bent near 

 lower end, radial from below the middle ; cell extending to half the wing ; middle 

 median at one-seventh and lower at four-sevenths before end of the cell ; submedian 

 much arched, lower branch at one-fourth from the base : hindwing short, exterior 

 margin very oblique, recurved ; cell extending one-third the wing, costal vein slightly 

 waved ; subcostal spur at one-third from base of the cell, two subcostal branches 

 fi'om end of the cell ; discocellular outwardly oblique, slightly recurved, radial from 

 the middle ; upper and middle median from angles at end of the cell, lower median 

 at one-half before the end ; submedian and internal vein curved Body stout, 

 abdomen broad, tufted at the side, anal tuft large and broad ; palpi pointed in front ; 

 legs rather short, thick ; antennee short, thickly clavate, finely serrate-pectinate, tip 

 slender and setose. 



