MACROGLOSSUM. 379 



Hab. E. Himalayas, S. India and Ceylon to the Philippines 

 and China. Mell has bred the species in S. China. 



Larva : — 



Final instar. Shape similar to others of the genus. Body 

 dull, with a transverse row of small tubercles along the 

 secondary rings ; horn long, slightly up-curved, tuberculate. 



Coloration. — Head green, with a white subdorsal stripe 

 and a white stripe separating face from cheek. Body with 

 segments 2 to 4 green, remaining segments greyish-green ; 

 a dorso-lateral stripe made up of whitish tubercles on segments 

 2 to 4, then narrow and bluish-grey till 11 and 12, where it is 

 broader and whitish to base of horn ; tubercles on anterior 

 secondary ring of each segment yellow, rest whitish. Horn 

 with basal three -fifths bluish -grey, sides violet near base, 

 distal two-fifths green, shading to yellow at tip, tubercles 

 black ; legs pale reddish-brown, basal segment with a black 

 ring ; prolegs ivory-yellow with a black basal band. Spiracles 

 cream-coloured with a broad, brick-red central band. Length 

 53-58 mm. ; breadth 8 mm. ; horn 7*5 mm. 



Pii'pa. — Shape similar to other pupae of the genus ; antenna 

 slightly longer than fore leg and reaching to about one -third 

 of wing-case. Surface slightly shining. Cremaster elongate-, 

 triangular, tip emarginate -truncate and slightly upturned, 

 with a small conical tubercle at each lateral angle ; dorsal 

 surface smooth, ventral with two curved longitudinal ridges 

 down the middle and three channels, the central channel the 

 broadest and shallowest. Colour of head and thorax dull 

 greenish -grey, rest of body brownish-grey ; tongue-sheath 

 with a median black stripe ; wing-case mottled with black ; 

 body marked with dark dots and short stripes ; spiracles 

 black. Length 42 mm. ; breadth 9 mm. 



Habits. — Food-plants : Pdederia tomentosa Bl. and Morinda 

 umbellata Linn., family Rubiacese, in China. 



130. Macroglossum fringilla (Boisd.). (PI. XI, fig. 19, larva, 

 fig. 20, pupa). 



Macroglossa fringilla, Boisduval, 1875, p. 352 (India). 

 Macroglossum fringilla, Jordan, 1911, p. 253, t. 40 e ; Seitz, 1929, 



p. 558, t. 65 6 ; Mell, 1922, p. 265, pi. ix, figs. 8-12, pi. xxx, 



fig. 10 (larva), pi. xviii, figs. 34, 35 (pupa). 

 Macroglossa heliophilu, Boisduval, 1875, p. 354, pi. xl. 

 Macroglossum heliophila, Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 645, pi. iii, 



fig. 6 ((?) ; Manson, 1921, p. 752. 



Imago. — .^¥- Head and thorax with a prominent dark 

 mesial stripe ; a rather sharply marked triangular area of 

 the same colour on tegula ; abdomen with a pair of pro- 

 minent black dorsal spots on fourth tergite ; side-tufts all 

 tipped with white. Fore wing : two antemedian lines filled 

 in, forming a very prominent band which is nearly straight 



