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the secondary rings white ; an indistinct dark green dorsal 

 stripe ; a white dorso-lateral stripe, clearly defined on 2 to 4, 

 faint on 5 to 11, and with white tubercles on 6 to 11, edged 

 above with dark green on these segments ; bluish-white 

 oblique stripes, clearest on 7 to 9 ; horn bluish-green with 

 a small, triangular, bluish latero-basal patch, the tubercles 

 green ; true legs pale flesh-colour, outer faces red ; shanks 

 of prolegs dull terra-cotta. Spiracles pure white with a broad 

 transverse brick-red band across the middle of all except 

 those on segments 11 and 12, which are immaculate white 

 and twice as large as the rest. Length 70 mm. ; breadth 

 11 mm. ; horn 14 mm. 



Pupa. — Very like that of Cizara sculpta in shape. Tongue- 

 sheath projecting slightly beyond the frons ; antenna equal 

 to fore leg ; coxal piece absent or rudimentary. Surface 

 smooth and shining. Cremaster. conical, tapering gently 

 to a short, widely bifid tip. Colour : tongue greyish -green, 

 darker at tip ; thorax and wing-case greyish-green ; two pale 

 chestnut spots on segment 2 ; legs dark chestnut barred with 

 pale orange ; abdomen pale ochreous-brown above, reddish- 

 brown with short longitudinal chestnut lines below ; bevels 

 of free abdominal segments dark chestnut ; broad blackish 

 patches and short black lines between the spiracles of segments 

 3 to 10. Length ^2-52 mm. ; breadth 11-14 mm. 



Habits. — Food-plant : Adina globiflora Salisb., family 

 Rubiaceas, in China. The moth flies by day, and its resting 

 position is the same as for those of the genus Macroglossum. 



Genus MACROGLOSSUM Scopoli. (Figs. 90, 91). 



Scopoli, 1777, p. 414 ; Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 616 ; id., 1907, 

 p. 118 ; Jordan, 1911, p. 252. 



Genotype : stellatarum (Linn.). 



Imago. — Small or medium-sized moths, resembling humming- 

 birds in shape. In the Indian species the upper side of body 

 and fore wing is dark coloured and the hind wing yellow with 

 black border, or reddish-fawn. " <£?. Genal process very 

 large, triangular. Tongue long. Eye lashed. Palpus broad, 

 pointed, projecting, end-surface triangular. Head feebly 

 crested. Antenna clubbed, hook short and rather abrupt, 

 variable in length ; end- segment slender, different in length 

 in the various species. Spines of abdomen flat, very strong, 

 those of first row broader than long, excepting proximal 

 segments, where they are longer than broad ; plate of sternite 

 of seventh segment triangular in 2, without spines ; fan-tail 

 large in both sexes, previous segments with lateral tufts. 

 Merum of mid- coxa produced backwards into a sharp tooth ; 

 upperside of mid- and hind tibia and underside of hind tibia 



