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Show 1875.] SPECIES O F SPHINGIDCE. 241 terrupted in the middle by a cruciform paler brown marking; the fifth segment bordered behind by ochreous scales ; terminal segments red-brown, blackish in the middle; anal tuft black at base, red-brown at tip ; lateral tufts black at base, tawny at tips : wings below chocolate brown, transversely crossed by indistinct nebulous brown bars, base bright yellow ; primaries with inner margin testaceous; palpi and thorax below creamy : abdomen red-brown ; basal segments with a central longitudinal yellow patch; lateral tufts black, tipped with ochreous ; anal tuft as above. Expanse of wings 1 inch 9 lines. Java (Argent). Type, B.M. Nearly allied to M. bombylans, but differing in several important points. 7. MACROGLOSSA GLAUCOPTERA, n. sp. (Plate XXXVI. fig. 9.) Primaries above shining dark slaty grey, base very dark; two dark brown transverse subparallel bands, edged with black; two waved parallel discal lines from external angle to costa : secondaries with the costa silky stramineous, basal half orange, interrupted at base by two diverging black dashes, outer margin to near middle of wing dark brown: body dull tawny; abdomen with ferruginous lateral and central spots, also whitish-tipped ferruginous lateral tufts ; anal tuft black, pale rosy brown at the tip : wings below deep ferruginous, base and abdominal area of secondaries golden yellow; outer margin brownish, two or three indistinct transverse brown lines : palpi below missing, probably white ; pectus sordid whitish, reddish laterally ; abdomen ferruginous, lateral tufts brown, tipped with pale ochreous ; anal tuft red-brown. Expanse of wings 2 inches. Ceylon (T. Skinner). One bad example, coll. F. Moore. 8. MACROGLOSSA NIGRIFASCIATA, n. sp. (Plate XXXVII. fig. 3.) Primaries above greyish brown, somewhat slaty towards base; a black transverse subbasal band, beginning very broad on inner margin and narrowing to costal nervure; an angulated and curved black-edged olivaceous discal band; outer margin from costa to external angle olive-brown ; a blackish subapical spot: secondaries orange, costa stramineous, base with two diverging black dashes; outer margin broadly black-brown: body olivaceous, three basal segments with lateral orange spots, terminal segments with lateral white-tipped black tufts; anal tuft rosy-brown: wings below dull ferruginous, becoming smoky brown on outer margin, yellow at base ; secondaries with a large pyriform abdominal golden-yellow patch ; disk crossed by two or three brown lines; palpi missing ; pectus and centre of venter whity-brown, remainder of abdomen black-brown. Expanse of wings 2 inches 1 line. Ceylon. One bad example, coll. F. Moore. 9. MACROGLOSSA LUTEATA, n. sp. (Plate XXXVII. fig. 5.) Nearly allied to M. proxima: primaries dark brown, becoming lilacine in the centre, crossed near base by a dark oblique band, and PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1875, No. XVI. 16 |