Macroglossum semifasciata Hampson, [1893]

Abdomen upperside with yellow lateral patches very small, the black patches prominent; 7th segment with a black mesial patch; anal tuft dark, side tufts white tipped. Palp grey, thorax underside darker. Abdomen underside with ill-defined buffish-grey mesial patches on proximal segments; 7th sternite more or less grey in female. Forewing upperside antemedial lines oblique, the space between them narrow, black only posteriorly, where it is curved basad; 1st and 2nd discal bands indistinct, the space between them not black. Hindwing upperside base more extensively black than in similar species, joined along the anal margin to the distal border.

Male genitalia: Uncus truncate. Gnathos rounded apically, carinate dorsally. Valve with stridulatory scales. Harpe slender, pointed, slightly downcurved. Phallus with process obtuse, dentate, its base projecting, 2 rows of teeth at its base; the longercornutus tapering, but not produced into a needle-like process.