30 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



MACROGLOSSA INSIPIDA (Plate 92, Fig. 3 a, &, larva). 

 Macroglossa insij>ida, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 242, ? . 



Forewing purplish slate-colour ; crossed by two short basal dull purple-brown 

 bands, a curved broader complete brighter-coloured antemedial band, two recurved 

 jjostmedial dusky black lines, and two less distinct waved submarginal lines, the 

 latter interrupted below the apex by a short black quadrate streak ; interspace 

 between the postmedial lines, and above the quadrate spot washed with purple- 

 brown : hindwing dark purple-brown, crossed by a broad orange-yellow band. 

 Thorax, head, palpi, and legs above purplish slate-colour; tegulaj purplish-brown 

 edged with grey; abdomen paler purplish-brown with orange-yellow lateral spots 

 and purplish-black anal tuft; palpi beneath white. 



Expanse It? to lA inch. 



Larva. (Early stage) — Dull dirty yellowish olive-green, dotted with darker colour ; 

 with a dark sap-green subdorsal line and lateral stripes ; horn dusky. {Adult) — Pale 

 red, with dark purple-red dots ; a duplex subdorsal line, and lateral stripes ; horn 

 black. Pupa pale reddish-ochreous, minutely black dotted ; spiracles black. 



MACROGLOSSA AFFICTITIA (Plate 93, Fig. 3). 

 Macroglossa affiditia, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 240, pi. 36, fig. 7. 



Forewing pui'plish-brown ; crossed by an indistinctly darker antemedial band 

 and three deeply waved postmedial lines obliquely crossed by a darker shade ; a dark 

 spot also below the apex : hindwing dark ferruginous-brown, crossed by a distinct 

 bright ferruginous band. Body olivaceous greyish-brown; abdomen with orange- 

 yellow lateral spots, and slight subdorsal greyish-black spots, tuft greyish-black ; 

 palpi whitish beneath, legs greyish-brown. 



Expanse 2 iuches. 



Nearest allied to M. Vialis. 



MACROGLOSSA VIALIS (Plate 93, Fig. 2). 

 Macroglossa Vialis, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 240, pi. 36, f. 5. 

 Allied to M. gyrans. Comparatively smaller : forewing similarly mai'ked, except 

 that the two antemedial lines are interspaced with black and forming a conspicuous 

 band, the contiguous transverse area being pale purplish-grey: hindwing deeper 

 ferruginous-red, with a slight dusky brown base and distinct broad marginal band. 

 Expanse Its to ItV inch. 



MACROGLOSSA GYRANS (Plate 93, Fig. 1). 

 ilfacrogiZossa Gi/raws, Walker, Catal.Lep.Het.B.M. viii. p. 91(1856); Boisduval, Spec. Gen.Lep. Het.p.336. 

 Forewing greyish purplish-brown, crossed by two black subbasal and two 

 antemedial undulated lines, three postmedial outwardly angulated lines ; the subbasal 



