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MACROGLOSSA PROXIMA (Plate 91, Fig. 1 a, h, larva). 

 Macroglossa proxima, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 4, pi. 1, f. 1. 



Forewing dark purplish oliTaceous-brown ; crossed by two very indistinct 

 antemedial brown lines, and tliree waved postmedial lines : bindwing dark purple- 

 brown, crossed by a brigbt orange-yellow band. Body dark olivaceous-brown; 

 abdomen with three orange-yellow lateral spots ; tuft blackish, with reddish tip ; 

 paljDi beneath whitish ; legs reddish-brown. 



Expanse 2f inches. 



Larva dark violet-brown, dorsally white dotted; a subdorsal anterior and 

 posterior yellow streak ; spiracles duller coloured, and a white lower spot on eighth 

 to twelfth segment ; horn long, recurved, tuberculated. {Another stage.) Pale violet- 

 brown, with yellowish and olive-brown transverse dorsal lines and yellow lateral 

 spots ; a purple-brown dorsal line, the ends being ochreous ; spiracles yellow-bordered, 

 and a lower yellow spot on ninth to eleventh segment ; horn short, tuberculated. 

 {Adult stage.) Dark purple-brown, yellow dotted; a pale ochreous dorsal fascia; 

 large pinkish lateral spots splashed with yellow ; horn short, tuberculated. Pupa pale 

 purplish-ochreous, black dotted ; spiracles and lateral streaks on wing-cases black. 



" Feeds on Morinda umbellata." (Thwaites.) 



MACROGLOSSA TAXICOLOR (Plate 90, Fig. 3, 3a, larva). 

 Macroglossa taxieolor, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 387. 



Forewing grey-brown ; crossed by a broad antemedial and a postmedial ferru- 

 ginous olivaceous-brown band, the inner band narrowest at the costal end, the outer 

 band angular on its external border, and broadest at the costal end ; a very indistinct 

 submarginal dusky black waved line, and a prominent black subapical spot : hind- 

 wing dark ochreous-brown, crossed by a broad orange-yellow band. Body ferruginous 

 olive-brown, with black-bordered orange-yellow lateral spots; anal tuft purplish- 

 black. 



Expanse If to 2 inches. 



Larva. {Early stage) — OHve-yellow, greenish beneath ; minutely white dotted ; a 

 subdorsal row of black slender linear streaks, the caudal streak white-bordered 

 beneath ; spiracles white bordered with black. {Adidt) — Grreen, darker spotted ; an 

 indistinct darker subdorsal line ending in a yellow streak at base of horn. Pupa pale 

 olivaceous ochreous-yellow ; head and wing-cases minutely black streaked ; spiracles 

 large, black. 



" Feeds on Memecylon." {Thioaites.) 



