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Show 310 MR. A. ANDERSON ON THK [Mar. 21, Genus LOPHURA. 4. L O P H U R A MINIMA, n. sp. (Plate XXII. fig. 2.) Primaries above grey, apical area broadly purplish brown, crossed by a dark brown discal line, and bounded internally by a triangular subcostal blackish spot; base brownish ; two black spots on inner margin ; secondaries tawny, with broad ferruginous external border; head and thorax grey, abdomen rosy greyish, dorsal region dark; wings below dull tawny, powdered, especially towards the outer margins, with grey; secondaries with a black-edged white dot at end of cell; anal angle, and two parallel central transverse lines, ferruginous ; body below rosy greyish, back of pectus whitish. Expanse of wings 1 inch 1 line. Ayerpanas, Malacca (Roberts). Subfamily SMERINTHIN^E. Genus M I M A S. 5. M I M A S T E R R A N E A , n. sp. (Plate XXII. fig. 3.) Primaries greyish clay-brown, crossed by two central diffused reddish bands ; a dull black dot at end of cell ; several dark grey discal spots towards apex ; secondaries dark brick-red ; body greyish clay-brown ; antennas and lateral tufts on metathorax reddish; wings below rosy greyish ; primaries with the discoidal cell and interno-median area ferruginous ; a straight transverse discal brown line from costa to inner margin : secondaries with an elongated cuneiform ferruginous abdominal streak ; two central parallel brown lines ; fringe yellowish ; body rosy greyish. Expanse of wings 3 inches 2 lines. Ayerpanas, Malacca (Roberts). A very well marked and distinct species. 2. Corrections of and Additions to " Raptorial Birds of North-western India."-Part IIA By A N D R E W A N D E R SON, F.Z.S. &c. [Eeceived February 22, 1876.] (Plate XXIII.) Another collecting-season enables m e to add the following novelties and additional information on the subject of my last paper, thus bringing up the number of Raptorial Birds occurring in the plains of the North-western Provinces to no less than fifty-two species. Additions to former lists are indicated by an asterisk. 2. VULTUR CALVUS, Scop. In allusion to my having found Gyps bengalensis resting on palm-trees, I have now to mention that on the 28th January last I saw a pair of King Vultures building on a solitary tar-tree (Borassus Jta- * For Part I. see P. Z. 8. 1875, page 16. |
