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veins of wings, spiracles and cremaster dark brown. Length 

 35 mm. 



Habits. — Food-plants : Galium Linn, and Rubia Linn., 

 family Rubiacese (in Europe). 



118. Macroglossum bombylans (Boisd.). (Fig. 90 A, B, geni- 

 talia ; fig. 92, imago; PI. IV, fig. 15, larva). 



Macroglossa bombylans, Boisduval, 1875, p. 334 (Cent. Asia) ; 



Butler, 1877 A, p. 525 (N. India ; Dehra Dun ; Hong-Kong). 

 Macroglossum bombylans, Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 632 ; Jordan, 



19li, p. 253, t. 40/; Mell, 1922, p. 257, pi. viii, fig. 29, pi. xiii, 



fig. 47, pi. xviii, fig. 23 (pupa), pi. xxx, fig. 9 (larva) ; Seitz, 



1929, p. 556. 

 Macroglossa walkeri, Butler, 1875, p. 4 ; Hampson, 1892, p. 116 



Dudgeon, 1898, p. 418 (Sikkim, 3,000-7,000 ft.). 



Imago. — #$. Head, thorax and abdomen olive-green ; 

 abdomen with yellow lateral bands on anterior segments, 

 segment 4 with a rufous band in addition ; side-tuft of 3 pure 

 white ; base of sixth tergite pure white ; terminal segments 

 black with some rufous scales. Fore wing brown with a black 

 antemedian band recurved along inner margin, first two post- 

 median lines prominent, third and subapical markings obso- 

 lescent. Hind wing with a more or less complete yellow median 

 band in the $, in the $ this band reduced to an abdominal 



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Fig. 92. — Macroglossum bombylans (Boisd.). 



and a costal patch Underside of palpus and breast greyish- 

 white, of abdomen rufous with a white mesial patch on the 

 first two or three abdominal sternites ; wings dark reddish- 

 brown with the lines very faint, base of both wings white. 

 Expanse : $ 40-44 mm., 2 52 mm. 



£. Tenth tergite narrow, pointed ; sternite sinuate at end 

 in an apical view. Ciasper without friction-scales ; harpe 

 (fig. 90 A) narrowing distad, point obtuse, the whole slightly 

 up-curved, with some long bristles on side ; penis-sheath 

 (fig. 90 B) with two obtuse internal rods, apical dentate 

 process short. 



Hab. W. and E. Himalayas, Japan and China. We have 

 bred the species in Dehra Dun and the Khasi Hills, and Mell 



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