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Show 252 * MR. A. G. BUTLER ON N E W [Mar. 16, olive-brown border, tapering at each end; fringe ferruginous : secondaries dull brick-red, the costal area and base testaceous, abdominal area reddish testaceous, anal area suffused with whitish ; a central transverse straight grey streak from inner margin to end of cell; an abbreviated discal grey line, and a brownish anal submarginal litura: body above brownish, with usual dark markings; face whitish : wings below pale ferruginous, disk of primaries browner in tint; two ill-defined discal continuous ferruginous lines; primaries with inner margin silky, testaceous or bronzy ; outer margin with a broad tapering whitish border : secondaries with basal and abdominal areas somewhat whitish : thorax below and base of abdomen deep ferruginous ; remaining segments of abdomen greyish. Expanse of wings 4 inches 2 lines. N.W. Himalayas. Type, coll. F. Moore. Allied to the preceding, but entirely distinct. 36. AMBULYX TURBATA, n. sp. Primaries above rich castaneous ; a broad central greyish band, margined on both sides by indistinct zigzag brown lines from subcostal nervure above end of cell to inner margin ; a greenish grey spot on lower discocellular; disk clouded with blackish; outer margin with broad coffee-brown border, tapering at apex, but not at external angle, margined internally, excepting towards apex, by an orange line edged within with whitish and bounded by four semicircular olivaceous spots, margined towards apex by a dusky-edged pearly line : secondaries almost as in A. liturata : body red-brown ; head greyish, with red-brown crest: wings below much like A. seri-ceipennis, but redder and darker: body bright ochraceous, varied with reddish ; palpi and prothorax reddish orange. Expanse of wings 4 inches 7 lines. Darjeeling. Type, coll. F. Moore. Var. Smaller, brighter in colour ; primaries with two central and two discal transverse zigzag lines, all distinct; submarginal semicircular spots less marked, blending at their bases into an undulated fascia; secondaries much brighter in colour, with the transverse lines much blacker; wings below transversely mottled with distinct grey spots. Expanse of wings 4 inches 1 line. Canara, S. India. Coll. F. Moore. The most beautiful species in the genus, with the exception of A. rubricosa; it is allied to A. sericeipennis. Subfamily SMERINTHINCE. Genus BASIANA, Walker. 37- B A S I A N A E X U S T A , n. sp. Allied to B. deucalion : primaries rosy greyish, basal area pale slaty grey, covered at base by testaceous tufts; three parallel dark grey zigzag lines across the middle of the cell from costa to inner margin; two dusky-edged parallel zigzag discal olivaceous bars from costa to inner margin; apex blackish, between it and outer baud |
