370 SPHINGID^]. 



a broad black band, ankles reddish, feet livid-green. Spiracles 

 narrowly oval, flush, white with a narrow, black, minutely 

 beaded border. Length 55 mm. ; breadth 7 mm. ; horn 7 mm. 



Pupa. — Shape the same as other macroglossine pupae ; 

 tongue -sheath prominent ; tip of tongue spatulate ; antenna 

 slightly shorter than fore leg, which reaches to middle of wing- 

 case, mid-leg reaching to two-thirds. Surface of head and 

 thorax shining, finely aciculate ; of wing-case and abdomen 

 dull, abdomen minutely, sparsely pitted ; front bevels of 

 segments 9 to 11 rugose. Spiracle of 2 a narrow slit covered 

 by a narrow, raised, oblong, transverse lobe projecting from 

 the front margin of 3, the hind margin of 2 slightly thickened 

 in front of the slit. Cremaster : elongate -triangular, smooth 

 and shining, tip shortly bifid, ventral surface hollowed longitu- 

 dinally. Colour pinkish bone-colour, head, thorax and wing- 

 case green, the wing-case marked with dark transverse lines 

 and dots ; a broad dorsal stripe from head to segment 12, 

 jet-black on head and thorax, diffused green on abdomen ; 

 spiracles black ; cremaster brownish orange. Length 37 mm. ; 

 breadth 11 mm. 



Habits. — Food-plant : Memecylon edule Roxb., family 

 Melastomacese. Habits similar to those of belis. 



125. Macroglossum pyrrhosticta pyrrhosticta (Butl). (Fig. 

 90 M, N, genitalia ; fig. 95, imago ; PL XI, fig. 13, & 

 PI. XV, fig. 4, larva ; PI. XI, fig. 14, pupa). 



Macroglossa pyrrhosticta, Butler, 1875, p. 242, pi. xxxvi, fig. 8 



(Shanghai) ; id., 1877 A, p. 527, pi. xc, fig. 8 (larva). 

 Macroglossum pyrrhosticta, Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 641, pi. iii, 

 , fig. 12 ($) ; Mell, 1922, p. 258, pi. viii, figs. 30, 31. pi. xviii 



fig. 24 (pupa), pi. xxx, fig. 11 (larva), fig. 12 ((?). 

 Macroglossum pyrrhosticta pyrrhosticta, Jordan, 1911, p. 253 ; 



Seitz, 1929, p. 557 ; Scott, 1931, pi. iii, fig. 7 (larva). 

 Macroglossa gilia, Boisduval (non Herr.-S chaff., 1854), 1875, 



p. 341 (partim) ; Moore, 1884, p. 234 (Cachar) ; Hampson, 



1892, p. 117 (partim) ; Dudgeon, 1898, p. 418 (Sikkim ; Bhutan; 



2,000-5,000 ft.). 

 Macroglossa catapyrrha, Butler, 1875, p. 243, pi. xxxvi, fig. 6 



(N. India). 



Imago. — $$. Very like troglodytus but larger, antemedian 

 band and first discal line of fore wing wider apart, all the 

 grey interspaces more olivaceous, duller and not so prominent 

 as in troglodytus, the wings appearing less variegated, though 

 the number of lines and interspaces is the same in both 

 species. Underside as bright ferruginous as in troglodytus, 

 abdomen often with two rows of blackish patches as in many 

 specimens of troglodytus. Underside of palpus and middle 

 of breast rather variable in tint. Expanse : £ 44-55 mm., 

 9. 48-56 mm. 



