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black line outside the grey post-discal line as broad as the 

 second discal one. Expanse : <$Q 46-54 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon. Early stages unknown. Very rare, in the 

 British Museum 1 <J, 2 $?. 



132. Macroglossum prometheus prometheus (Boisd.). (Fig 

 90 X, Y, genitalia ; fig. 100, imago). 



Macroglossa prometheus, Boisduval, 1875, p. 355 (Java). 

 Macroglossum prometheus prometheus, Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 651 ; 

 Seitz, 1929, p. 559. 



Imago. — ^$. Tegula with grey fringe in fresh specimens. 

 Abdomen above with two dark dots at the bases of 

 segments 3 and 4 ; anal tuft dark, tip often paler, vina- 

 ceous, not yellow or tawny. Fore wing with grey streak 

 of R 1 distinct, grey costal space in front of it prominent, 

 black apical half-moon joined to the submarginal patch 



Fig. 100. — Macroglossum prometheus prometheus (Boisd.), 9 (Java). 



SC^-R 1 , which is black distally and somewhat russet proxi- 

 mally, subapical patch SC 4 -SC 5 russet ; lines not prominent, 

 interspaces grey, median interspace not more grey than 

 interspace between the subbasal and the double antemedian 

 lines. Yellow band of hind wing very sharply defined, costal 

 margin not yellow. Underside of wings vandyke- brown, 

 shaded with drab, dull in tint, yellow abdominal area con- 

 trasting sharply. Expanse: <£$. 45-64 mm. The figure is 

 from a Java specimen. 



£. Tenth tergite truncate, very slightly sinuate, the angles 

 somewhat projecting laterad. Clasper with prominent friction- 

 scales ; harpe (fig. 90 X) with a very short triangular, acuminate 

 free process. Process of penis-sheath (fig. 90 Y) with a single 

 basal tooth which points distad, and a number of teeth at 

 and near proximal edge ; no teeth on sheath near base of 

 process. 



Hab. Ceylon to Java and the Philippines. Early stages 

 unknown. Fairly common. 



