saga. 
godeffroyi. 
fritzei. 
glaucoptera. 
vidua. 
joannisi. 
' scmifascia- 
ta. 
nig ilium. 
adustum ■ 
spilonolum. 
aquila. 
sylvia. 
560 MACROGLOSSUM. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
species. — According to Mell neither the larva nor the pupa are to be distinguished from those of M. tro- 
glodytus (56 C e). 
M. saga Btlr. (= pvrrhosticta Leech nee Btlr., kiushiuensis Bothsch., glaucoplaga Hmps.) (Vol. II, pi. 40f) 
is a very large species, the body dark brown with a black median line on the head and thorax, abdomen with 
yellow lateral spots on the 3rd and 4th rings (on the 2nd only traces of them). 'Forewing very uniformly 
darker and lighter banded, the yellow band of the hindwing straight, mostly of medium width. Beneath the 
chest is greyish wood-coloured, and above the 6th abdominal ring shows the anterior border on the sides white. 
— The larva was found on an Euphorbiacea (Daphniphyllum). — The imago occurs in Sikkim. Central C hin a, 
and South Japan. For further particulars cf. Vol. II, p. 253. 
M. godeffroyi Btlr. is unknown to me in nature; it was described from a single male in the British Mu¬ 
seum and is hardly to be found in other collections. The species is recognizable by long hair on the middle 
and hind tibiae, looking almost like a scent-organ and apparently not reoccurring in any other Sphingida. 
Duke of York I. 
M. fritzei B. d- J. (56 C c). This lepidopteron which Adolf Feitze discovered in Okinawa (Lu-Chu Is.) 
in 1891, but which also occurs in South China, is easily discernible by the quite flatly extending oblique 
band of the forewing, from behind the centre of the costal margin to the basal portion of the inner margin. 
The yellow band of the hindwing is broad and the yellow spots of the abdomen are large. — Larva similar 
to the well-known Macroglossum- larvae, green or light rust-brown, probably living on Adenosacme. The imago 
seems to prefer the mountain districts. 
M. glaucoptera Btlr., (= obscuriceps Btlr., lepsha Btlr., fuscata Huioe) (65 d) is recognizable by the 
hindwings, in which the yellow median band is verry narrow, mostly interrupted in the middle, or covered 
by the blackish-brown, ground-coulour save faint traces (as in the figure). Body and forewing deep dark 
brown, thorax and head with an olive tint. Ceylon, Malacca, Java. 
M. vidua B. J' J. (56 C c). Described from a single female from the I. of Waigeu. Abdomen very much 
rubbed off, it probably had been spotted yellow on the sides. Forewing with a straight dark median band which 
is widened towards the inner margin, hindwing with hardly any yellow; of the median band there are only 
faint yellowish-grey traces left. 
M. joannisi B. <£• J. is very similar to vidua, larger, the hindwing likewise only with traces of a median 
band, but the forewing traversed by 2 strong dark antemedian and postmedian bands. Abdomen with bright 
yellow spots on rings 2—5. Hindwing beneath light cinnamon with a broad yellow base. Described from 1 $ 
from Queensland. 
A. semifasciata limps. (= faro Piep. nee Cr.) (65 d). Body and forewing dark chestnut-brown, so that 
of the marking almost only the darker antemedian band, which is widened downward, remains visible. Ab¬ 
dominal rings 3 and 4 laterally spotted black and yellow. The yellow band of the hindwing is narrow, down- 
wan I slightly widened. -- Adult larva dark brown with a green dorsum, a feeble median line and distinct sub¬ 
dorsal line. Burmah to Borneo and Java. Apparently very rare. 
M. nigillutn Botschh., from Java, described from 1 male, is similar to semifasciata ; the diffuse blackish- 
brown subapieal spot extends from the costa to the 1st radial branch, and the clouded white-grey scaling is 
more intensely marked than in typical semifasciata (65 d), but the yellow colour on the hindwing beneath is 
not so extensive. 
M. adustum B. d• J.. from the Salomons Is., likewise resembles semifasciata (65 d) and it has quite the 
same marking, but the body and forewing are of a decidedly deeper colouring. In the hindwing the band is 
only marked by a yellow cloud-spot in front at the inner margin and by a yellowish brightening behind the 
upper cell-angle. 
M. spilonotuni B.dJ. is likewise somewhat similar to semifasciata (65 d); from Mt. Goliath in New 
Guinea. Olive brown, head and thorax with a blackish-brown band which is posteriorly indistinctly widened; 
the patagia are also blackish-brown. Abdomen above with 2 rows of well developed black spots, the sides mar¬ 
ked with 2 yellow and 3 brown spots. Forewing with dark transverse lines and a dark triangular marginal area; 
hindwing with a narrow, yellow, distinct band. Under surface chestnut brown, hindwing at the inner-marginal 
area beautifully yellow. 
M. aquila Bsd. {= interrupta Btlr.) (65 d) resembles the preceding species, but it is smaller, the brown 
colour on the body and forewing less deep, so that the marking of the forewing is more distinctly prominent. 
The yellow band on the hindwing is very narrow, in the middle as far as the interruption narrowed; sides of 
hindwing very much spotted. Indo-China across Malacca to Borneo and Manila. 
M. sylvia Bsd. (= obscura Btlr., proxima Hmps.) (64 f). A large species, with a strong, stout and long, 
little spotted body. On the forewing alternately dark red-brown and grey-brown broad bands. The yellow band 
of the hindwing is faded, in the inner-marginal area it flows into the anal angle. From Ceylon and Assam across 
Malacca to Java and Formosa. 
