Note 114 — Part II. ON THE FINAL CAUSES OF TRANSFORMATION. (continued 2)

[The following additional species of the subfamily Macroglossinæ have been figured by Butler:—Lophura Hyas, Walk. (loc. cit. Pl. XC., Figs. 1 and 2), Hong-Kong, Silhet, and Java. The larva is apparently figured in two stages, the younger being red-brown with oblique white stripes, and the head and three front segments green. The larger specimen is green, mottled with red-brown, and no oblique stripes. In both figures the subdorsal line is indicated. The whole colouring is very suggestive of protective resemblance. Hemaris Hylas, Linn., from China, Japan, Ceylon, India, Australia, and Africa (loc. cit. Pl. XC., Fig. 4). The upper part of the body is light blue, and the lower part green, the two areas being separated by a white subdorsal line bordered above with brown. The dorsal line is feebly represented. Macroglossa Belis, Cram., N. India (loc. cit. Pl. XC., Fig. 6), is figured with the ground-colour deep indigo; a conspicuous white subdorsal, and a yellow spiracular line is present; on the side of each segment, between the two lines mentioned, there is a large red spot with a yellow nucleus (? eye-spots), the spots decreasing in size towards the head and tail; these probably confer upon this species some special protective advantage. Macroglossa Pyrrhosticta, Butler, China and Japan (loc. cit. Pl. XC., Fig. 8), is greenish-white with dorsal and subdorsal lines, and seven dark oblique stripes along the sides, below the subdorsal line. Of the foregoing species Hemaris Hyas appears to be in the same phyletic stage as M. Stellatarum and M. Croatica, &c., whilst M. Pyrrhosticta is probably, together with M. Corythus and M. Gilia, in another and more advanced stage, which is also passed through by Lophura Hyas in the course of its ontogenetic development. This last species (adult) and M. Belis may represent phyletic stages still further advanced. Caliomma Pluto, Walk., of which the caterpillar is figured by Burmeister (loc. cit. Pl. XIII., Fig. 1), appears to be a case of special protective resemblance to a twig or branch of its food-plant. Figured also by Chavannes; Bull. Soc. Vadoise des Sci. Nat., Dec. 6th 1854. R.M.]