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M. eichhomi R. <b J. (65 f) is at once recognizable by the yolk-coloured anal tuft and the very crooked eichhomi. 
yellow band in the hindwing. Salomons. 
M. corythus Wkr. (= proxima Wkr. nec Limps .) is a most variable species of a vast range and deviates corythus. 
considerably, above all in the yellow colouring; to some extent constant are the bands on the deep dark brown 
forewing in which the first dark transverse stripe extends rather close to the base, the second distally very 
straightly defined, the most distal, light one being convex towards the margin. South India and Ceylon. — 
xanthurus R. & J . has a broad yellow anal tuft. Palpi and chest with an ochreous tint and a particularly bright xanthurus. 
grey touch. Tenimber Is. fulvicaudata Btlr. (65 e) likewise shows an entirely yolk-coloured anal tuft, the fulvicau- 
abdomen being very intensely spotted yellow, the narrow dark yellow band of the hindwing being indistinctly 
defined. Bismarck Archipelago and Salomons. — novobudensis Clk., from the New Hebrides, forms a transition novobuden- 
from fulvicaudata to fuscicauda; the light antemedian band of the forewing is less conspicuous than in the 
former, but more distinct than in the latter. The yellow band of the hindwing is narrower than in fuscicauda, 
but not so much pierced by blackish-brown as in fulvicaudata. The anal tuft is not quite as far yellow as in 
fulvicaudata. — fuscicauda R. <L- J., from Lifu (Loyalty Is.) shows the anal tuft still less extensively yellow, fuscicauda. 
sometimes quite brown or above only with an ochreous tip. The yellow band of the hindwing is above broad, 
the margin narrower blackish-brown than in the following form. - pylene Fldr. ( = phlegeton Bsd., motacilla pylene. 
Bsd., cyniris Bsd., volucris Pag., approximans Luc., lineata Luc., labrosa Swh.) is a very variable, but mostly 
small form; the type has quite yellow hindwings with a crescentiform blackish-brown marginal spot which, 
however, hardly touches the anal angle and does not reach to the apex at all. Abdomen laterally with bright 
yellow spots. Anal tuft at the apex mostly bright yellow; from Queensland and New Guinea to the Moluccas.— 
luteata Btlr. (= svlvia Smpr. nec Bsd.) (65 e) is distributed from Sikkim to the Andamans and in the south- luteata. 
east to the Sunda Is.; in the north-east to South China, Formosa and the Philippines. A large form; the 
yellow band of the hindwing is strongly curved, the abdomen intensely spotted yellow, but the anal tuft mostly 
without any yellow tip or only the apical hairs ochreous. platyxanthum R. <L • •/., from the Lu-Chu Is., is platyxan- 
similar to luteata, but the yellow band of the hindwing is broader, the dark marginal band narrower particularly 
analwards; the basal area beneath shaded with yellow, but less deeply than in luteata. The yellow spots of the 
abdomen are variable. Brought from Okinawa by Adolf Fritze in great numbers. — Larva in front and above 
yellowish green, beneath more blue-green, the two colours separated by the dark subdorsal stripe melting away 
beneath into white. Pectoral sides and the long curved horn red. On Paederia tomentosa. A larva from Luzon 
is figured by Semper with a violet horn and a lateral stripe melting away beneath into reddish; larvae of luteata 
were also found on other Rubiaceae (Morinda, Psychotria), but they are said to live also on a monocotyledon 
creeper (the Pandanacea Freycinetia luzonensis). The imagines are very common at nearly all their habitats. 
According to Mell they only fly towards evening. The different forms are sometimes interosculant. 
M. multifascia R. & J. is very similar to corythus luteata (65 e), but the yellow colour on the abdominal 
sides and on the hindwing is quite dull ochreous, almost brownish; the forewing is crossed by many parallel, 
somewhat undulating dark stripes; the apical portion of the forewing is somewhat darker in the typical specimen. 
Borneo; perhaps also in Java. 
M. tinnunculus Bsd. is very similar to hemichroma (65 e), but the forewings are striped more like those tinnuncutus. 
of the other Macroglossum\ an oblique band from near the centre of the costal margin to the inner margin 
before the anal angle, parting the wing into two halves as in the following liemichroma, but this line of partition 
is not so distinct, and the distal half of the forewing is intensely shaded with grey, so that it does not contrast 
so dark with the interior half. From Saigun. 
M. hemichroma Btlr. (= tinnunculus Smpr. nec Bsd.) (65 e). As in tinnunculus the forewing is divided hemichroma. 
into a darker exterior half and a lighter interior half by an oblique median transverse line. Abdomen with 
bright dark dorsal spots. Differences from tinnunculus stated above. North India to Java, Borneo, and the 
Philippines. 
M. passalus Dry. has often been mistaken for the forms of corythus', it is divided into two local forms: passalus. 
the typical one (= pandora F., sturnus B-sd.), from Eastern Asia (Lu-Chu Is., Formosa, and the opposite South 
China and Cochin-China), distinguished from the figured western form - rectifascia Fldr. (65 e) by the much rectifascia. 
narrower yellow band of the hindwing and the less bright median band of the fore wing. From South India 
and Ceylon. — Larva light yellow, with a greenish touch, with a shorter straight horn, a finer dorsal and thick 
brown longitudinal stripe on the sides of the dorsum. On Daphniphyllum calycinum (Euphorbiacea). On being 
disturbed it bends the front part over the dorsum, like the larva of Lophopteryx camelina. The imagines chiefly 
fly in the dusk. 
M. augarra Rothsch. (65 f as angarra), from New Guinea, is a large dark form with only narrow, somewhat augarra. 
lighter transverse bands through the deep dark brown fore wing. The band in the hindwing is likewise narrow, 
of a bright golden yellow colour, of a slanting position and sharply defined. 
M. faro Cr. (64 f) is one of the largest Macroglossum. Forewing divided by a very straight transverse faro. 
line in the middle into a darker proximal portion and a lighter banded distal one. Hindwing with a rather 
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multifascia. 
