MACROGLOSSUM. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
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moriolum ■ 
divergens. 
M. melas R. R J . (65 b) is as large as fringilla, but of a darker shade, the band of the hindwing is very melas. 
much reduced, not so golden yellow as in fringilla (which is not so distinct in our figure). The lateral spots 
on the abdominal dorsum are paler yellow, too. As to further differences cf. fringilla which it represents in 
the south-east. Queensland, Key Is., and New Guinea. 
M. moriolum R. & J. represents melas (65 b) in the Salomons Is. and is separated from it by the ante- 
median band of the forewing the distal margin of which is behind very much flawed proximad, as well as by 
the double postmedian band which is densely filled with black. 
M. divergens Wkr. Of this species only 1 9 was known, from Ceylon, where it may represent fringilla. 
The first discal line of the forewing is only indicated, the second thick and outside expanded between the 
two first radial branches, a distinct black line distally to the grey postdiscal line as broad as the second dis¬ 
cal line. 
M. mediovitta R. R J . (65 c) is at once recognizable by the quite straight and equable course of the light 
median transverse stripe of the forewing. Okinawa. 
Me albigutta R.R J . The typical form is easily discernible from the quite similar form fioridense R. R J . (65 c) 
by the reduction of the yellow band of the hindwing, which in typical albigutta from Guadalcanar is only 
preserved at the costa and inner margin, but interrupted by thick black in the centre of the wing. — fiori¬ 
dense from Florida I. (Salomons Is.) 
M. dohertyi Rothsch. (56 C c). In this species there are instead of the median interspace and the grey 
postdiscal line two narrow ochreous-white bands which are distinctly defined. New Guinea and Amboina. 
M. hirundo Bscl. is distributed almost across the whole of the South Sea, and on the remote groups of 
islands quite a number of local forms have developed. - vitiense R. R J. (65 b) is the form from the Fidji Is.; 
forewing unicoloured dark brown, without a distinct median transverse band; abdominal dorsum without a 
yellow lateral spot on the 4th ring, or with but faint traces of it. samoanum R. R J ., from Samoa, to which 
the likewise Samoan navigatoium CTk. seems to be closely allied, is intermediary between hirundo and vitiense ; 
the blackish-brown straight median band of the forewing is distinct, but the grey band of the forewing is 
absent. - confhiens R. R •/., however, forms the transition to lifuense ; the antemedian band is broader, contiguous 
with the median band. The yellow band on the hindwing is broader than the blackish-brown basal area, 
lifuense Rothsch., however, shows a distinct yellow lateral spot on the 3rd ring, and on the 3rd and 4th rings 
also the black spots are well and distinctly marked. The antemedian and discal bands of the forewing are 
both distinct. New Caledonia and Loyalty Is. - errans Wkr. (= scottiarum Fldr., belinda Pag.) (65 c) has a broad 
median transverse band being widened towards the inner margin on the forewing, and a uniformly broad yellow 
band on the hindwing. Also recognizable by the invariably well developed dark dorsal spots on the abdomen. 
cinerascens Btlr. is presumably the remotest form, from the Caroline Is. The upper surface of the thorax 
and forewing is suffused here with a peculiar reflection, excepting a marginal band of the forewing, which is 
5 mm broad at the costa and narrows down towards the interior angle. — The species is distributed in the 
different forms over the principal islands of the said archipelagos, but in many islands it occurs but very 
rarely. - A continental form has also been described: interrupta Gloss, from Queensland; here the light 
median transverse band of the forewing is interrupted in the middle. 
M. rectans R. R J . (65 c). The species resembles errans by the remarkably light median transverse streak 
of the forewing, but it is easily discernible by this streak not extending vertically to the centre of the inner 
margin, but obliquely outward. Queensland, Key Islands, and New Guinea. 
M. prometheus Bsd. (= arcuatum Mr.) is a large species. The dark antemedian stripe of the forewing 
extends in a curve from before the costal margin to the base of the inner margin; the light median trans¬ 
verse stripe is absent and the yolk-coloured median band in the hindwing is distally rather smoothly defined 
and convex towards the anal angle. Before the apex there is a lighter, somewhat grey costal spot, similar to 
that of melas (65 b). Abdominal sides intensely spotted yellow. From Ceylon across IJalacca, Nias and Java 
to Borneo and the Philippine Is. inusitafa Swh. (= approximata Misk. nec Wkr., approximans Luc., li- inusitata. 
neata Luc., inconspicua Rothsch.) is the smaller Papuan form, from Queensland, New Guinea, and the ad¬ 
jacent- islands, with a grey under surface. This Australian form resembles those specimens of M. hirundo errans, 
in which the light median transverse stripe is darkened. 
M. nubilum R. R J. (65 d) is recognizable by the grey oblique patch cutting off the apex of the forewing, nubilum. 
The yellow band of the hindwing is considerably feebler than in most of the prometheus. New Guinea and ad¬ 
jacent islands. 
M. variegatum R. R J . (65 d, as variegata). Most closely allied to fringilla (65 b), but the yellow band of variegation. 
the hindwing is narrower than in most of the fringilla-, the spots on the hindwing, especially the black ones 
on the 3rd to 5th rings are smaller and more distinct; sides of palpi and central chest more loam-coloured, 
without the whitish-grey spots on the anterior rings. Antemedian band of forewing not so distinctly marked. 
India, Indo-China, South China, and Borneo; probably also from other districts, but identified as another 
mediovitta. 
albigutta. 
fioridense. 
dohertyi. 
hirundo. 
vitiense. 
samoanum. 
navigato- 
rum. 
confluens. 
lifuense. 
errans. 
cinerascens. 
interrupta. 
rectans. 
prometheus 
