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SPHINGID^. 
Semper's figures of tlie larva (Verh. zool.-botaii. Ges. Wien, pi. 23. fF. 3 a, 3 b, 3 c) are 
not very good and there is no description. 
The lai'va having but one ocellus does not belong to any of Weismann's three groups, 
but is transitional between the first and second. 
Pupa. Pale ochreous brown : abdominal somites profusely striated with olive-brown and 
fuliginous markings ; wing-cases suffused with brown ; anterior half of abdominal somites 
reddish ; stigmata black ; aual somite deeply concave and armed with a stout spine. 
MA CR 0 GL OSSIN^. 
Macroglossa belis, Cram., var. troglodytes, Boisd. (Plate CLVII. fig. 6.) 
Macroglossa troglodytus, Boisd. c^- Gucn. Lep. Noct. i. p. 344. 
Expanse If inch. 
Male. Head, thorax, and abdomen dull red-brown, the proximal segments of abdomen 
with orange lateral, patches, the distal segments with dark red-brown patches and small 
lateral white tufts ; imderside of head Avhite, of thorax yellowish white, of abdomen dull 
brown with medial yellowish patches. Fore wing purplish brown, with a darker autemedial 
band expanding towards inner margin ; a medial band curved below the costa; traces of a 
postmedial curved line and indistinct subapical patch. Hind wing with a dark basal patch; 
a broad medial orange-yellow baud and marginal red-brown band. Underside of fore wing 
red-brown, with one indistinct medial and two postmedial lines : of hind wing orange, with 
three transverse lines and broad marginal red-brown band. 
Differs from the typical form in its smaller size, narrower wings, and more orange 
underside to hind wing. 
Macroglossa belia. (Plate CLVII. fig. 15.) 
Expanse 2]V inches. 
Female. Allied to M. belis, Cram., from which it differs in having the medial baud 
across the fore wing grey, erect, and regular; the costal margin beyond the discal curved 
band grey, and the underside not suffused with red, but dull brown, with the base and inner 
margin of hind wing orange, and with scarcely a trace of the markings on either wing. 
Macroglossa glaucoptera, Ball. 
Macroglossa glaucopterca, Butl. F. Z. S. 1875, p. 241, pi. 30. 
Expanse ^ inch. 
Male. Differs from the female in the fore wing being considerably darker, and the orange 
band of the hind wing narrower ; the anal tufts ferruginous at tips. 
