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Show 18/6.] MR. A. G. BUTLER ON LEPIDOPTERA. 309 end of cell, the upper fork running close to the margin from second third of costa ; radial emitted close to the subcostal, reducing the upper discocellular to a point; lower discocellular long, oblique, nearly straight; second and third median branches emitted nearer together than the first and second; body slender ; eyes prominent; antennas slender, submoniliform; palpi very small. Type Stiboges nymphidia, n. sp. 1. STIBOGES NYMPHIDIA, n. sp. (Plate XXII. fig. 1.) Wings semitransparent, snow-white ; primaries with broad costal and external dark-brown borders, sinuated internally ; two irregular submarginal series of unequal white spots ; secondaries with a broad outer border, undulated internally ; a sinuated disco-submarginal lunulated pale brown line ; a submarginal series of elongated white spots; body dark brown; wings below as above ; legs, palpi, and venter white. Expanse of wings 1 inch 9 lines. Pinang (Roberts). Family JEGERIID^E. Genus SURA. 2. SURA CHALYBEA, n. sp. (Plate XXII. fig. 4.) Wings bright metallic steel-blue, becoming purple towards the outer margin ; body purplish black ; legs and anal tufts black-brown ; antennae black-brown. Expanse of wings 1 inch 9 lines. Singapore (Roberts). Family SPHINGID^E. Subfamily MACROGLOSSIN^E. Genus MACROGLOSSA. 3. MACROGLOSSA OBSCURICEPS, n. sp. (Plate XXII. fig. 5.) Wings purplish black, primaries crossed near the middle by a broad ill-defined regular greyish band, bounded on each side by two velvety-black parallel lines ; two scarcely visible waved discal lines ; secondaries with the costal area creamy-ochreous ; interno-median area crossed obliquely by a streak of dull ochreous hairs ; body above ferruginous; head and antennse dull black ; segments of abdomen with lateral anterior piceous spots, the second and third segments with posterior lateral ochreous spots, the fourth to sixth segments with lateral white tipped tufts ; fifth segment blackish, especially at the sides; anal tuft* black, tipped with ferruginous; wings below ferruginous, outer borders blackish, base ochraceous ; a central transverse dark brown line; abdominal area of secondaries ochreous ; palpi white; pectus sordid whitish, brownish at the sides ; venter ferruginous, with central triangular testaceous patches; tufts as above. Expanse of wings 2 inches 3 lines. Ayerpanas, Malacca (Roberts). This is one of the best-marked of the species of Macroglossa. |