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Show 1875.] SPECIES O F SPHINGIDCE. 243 with a broader orange band and, consequently, a narrower marginal brown border, primaries not varied with tawny; below like M. pyrrhosticta, but the secondaries rather redder. Expanse of wings 1 inch 6 lines. Ceylon (Skinner). Type, coll. F. Moore. 13. MACROGLOSSA CATAPYRRHA, n. sp. (Plate XXXVI. fig. 6.) Nearly allied to M.fraterna; primaries purplish slate-colour, crossed by brown lines as in that species, M. belis, and M. corythus, but with the subapical dark spot less distinct, and the bands (formed by double lines) more or less tawny ; secondaries exactly as in M. fraterna : body purplish slate-colour ; pterygodes, collar, and sides of abdomen ferruginous; three lateral quadrate orange spots and dorsal double series of blackish spots as in M. fraterna ; subterminal segment edged with white behind: wings below ferruginous, yellow at base, with terminal irregular brown border; usual brown transverse lines; palpi and coxas whitish ; sides of thorax and abdomen bright ferruginous, the second and third segments with a white lateral dot; lateral tufts tipped with ochreous. Expanse of wings 1 inch 11 lines. N. India (coll. F. Moore) ; Ceylon (Templeton). B.M. 14. MACROGLOSSA HEMICHROMA, n. sp. (Plate XXXVII. fig. 1.) Allied to M. faro, but the basal half of primaries grey sharply defined and paler externally; the apical half olive-brown, darkest internally, outer margin sprinkled with paler scales: secondaries as in M. faro, dark brown with a central orange band ; costa testaceous : head and thorax reddish brown, with a dark dorsal line: abdomen dark brown, the three basal segments with yellow spots; lateral tufts dark brown, tipped with white; anal tuft dark brown, paler at the tip : wings below reddish brown, outer margin with a darker border; secondaries with a large pyriform orange-yellow abdominal patch, four or five transverse dark brown lines; body below grey, palpi and prothorax sordid white. Expanse of wings 2 inch 8 lines. Silhet. Type, coll. F. Moore. Only one example, not in very good condition. 15. MACROGLOSSA IMPERATOR, n.sp. (Plate XXXVIT. fig. 4.) Primaries above dark brown, almost black, with the base and basal two thirds of costa dark grey; outer margin paler grey; a large costal subapical patch, a disco-submarginal irregular streak (near external angle and extending to lower radial nervure), and a transverse straight central band whity brown; secondaries black-brown, with a broad central irregular orange band, costa testaceous ; head grey, with a central piceous streak ; thorax piceous, with two parallel longitudinal grey bands, reddish posteriorly; abdomen glossy grey, with lateral series of quadrate black spots; second and third segments with small lateral orange spots; lateral tufts black-brown, tipped with white; anal tuft black-brown (incomplete): 16* |