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Show 240 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON N E W [Mar. 16, tips of pterygodes, and base of abdomen clothed with red-brown hairs three basal segments orange-yellow at the sides; subterminal segment edged behind with an interrupted white fringe; anal black, greyish at the tip ; lateral tufts brown, tipped with whitish : wings below reddish, ferruginous yellow at base, with brown border to outer margin ; secondaries with abdominal area broadly yellow ; two or three indistinct ferruginous transverse lines : palpi white; pectus whitish; abdomen and base of anal tuft rosy brown ; lateral tufts brown, with white tips. Expanse of wings 1 inch 7 lines. South India (Ward). Type, coll. F. Moore. Genus MACROGLOSSA, Ochsenheimer. 4. M A C R O G L O S S A AFFICTITIA, n. sp. (Plate X X X V I . fig. 7.) Nearly allied to M. gyrans and M. belis ; from the former it differs above in having the outer borders of secondaries better defined, the orange band consequently less diffused and not so red in tint; the white fringe to the last segment but one less pure in colour; the wings below with all the transverse brown lines strongly marked, as in M. belis, brownish testaceous in colour ; discoidal cell of primaries clothed with golden yellow hairs ; abdominal area of secondaries orange ; palpi below white, pectus whity brown, abdomen brownish testaceous: from M. belis it differs above in the duller orange band of secondaries, and in having the lateral orange spots on the abdomen united (as in M. gyrans), and the last segment but one bordered with sordid white ; below it differs in the altogether browner tint of the wings. Expanse of wings 2 inches. Canara. Type, coll. F. Moore. W e have what I believe to be a small variety of this species in the British Museum; it is, however, much darker, and is said to come from North India. 5. MACROGLOSSA VIALIS, n. sp. (Plate XXXVI. fig. 5.) Nearly allied to M. gyrans; but the primaries above with the transverse lines much more distinct, and the central area between the second and third lines whitish brown, forming a distinct sub-central white band : secondaries with the outer margin broadly and distinctly bordered with brown ; sides of body reddish, the lateral abdominal tufts yellowish ; transverse lines on underside of wings more distinct. Expanse of wings 1 inch 7 lines. Canara. Type, coll. F. Moore. This species seems to stand in the same relation to M. gyrans as M. sitiene does to M. belis. 6. MACROGLOSSA AVICULA, Boisd. Wings above dark pitchy brown, primaries with a lilacine tint, crossed by two transverse central blackish bars; a bifid subapical quadrate spot; secondaries with the costa testaceous : head, thorax, and three basal segments olive-green, the latter marked at the sides by quadrate orange spots ; the fourth and fifth segments pitchy, in- |