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Show 16 MR. A. ANDERSON O N T H E [Jan. 5, lineata, but altogether deeper in colour, and with a slender marginal plum-coloured line; body and legs below chocolate-brown, abdomen with a rosy tint. Expanse of wings 2 inches 7 lines. Coimbatoor (Walhouse). T}7Pe* B M* 33. LEUCOPHLEBIA BICOLOR, n. sp. (Plate II. fig. 5.) S. Primaries rosy, a broad central longitudinal tapering stramineous streak from base to apex, nearly straight in front, arched behind, and having three processes along the median branches; fringe stramineous; secondaries ochreous; costa and abdominal margin stramineous, outer margin rosy, fringe stramineous ; thorax dull rosy, deeper in front than behind, with a central ochreous spot: body whitish ochraceous, rosy at the margins; antennae above creamy whitish, below brownish: wings below stramineous; primaries with discoidal area ochreous; apical costa abruptly and broadly rosy, outer margin with a broad pale rosy border, tapering to apex; secondaries with costa and outer margin pale rosy; body dull pale ochraceous, with a rosy tint, gradually becoming more intense to the head; palpi dull rosy ; legs creamy above, rosy below. Expanse of wings 2 inches 2-3 lines. Almorah (Boys), N . India. Type, B.M. Allied to L. emittens, but coloured more like L. lineata. EXPLANATION OF PLATES I. & II. PLATE I. Fig. 1. Macroglossa proxima, p. 4. 2. obscura, p. 5. 3. fervens, p. 4. 4. Chcerocampa ignea, p. 10. 5. Calliomma lutescens, p. 5. 6. Macroglossa nox, p. 5. PLATE II. Fig. 1. Chcerocampa elegans, p. 8. 2. gracilis, p. 8. 3. argentata, p. 8. 4. Leucophlebia rosacea, p. 15. 5. • bicolor, p. 16. 2. Corrections of and Additions to " Raptorial Birds of Northwestern IndiaA By A N D R E W A N D E R S O N , F.Z.S. [Received November 30, 1874.] (Plate III.) Since the publication of m y last paper *, m y knowledge of this subject generally has been greatly advanced, not only by furthur research, but by the acquisition of European and African specimens of some of the species concerning which comparatively little was known * P. Z. S. 1872, p. 610. |