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Show 1879.] MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. 387 this species, occurring so near as Tzus Sima, must also inhabit at least the southern island. Our new species is larger than any of its congeners. The female, which unfortunately alone we possess, is rather larger than the male of Thriponax hodgsoni of Southern India, from which species it may at once be distinguished by the extent of white on the back and breast being nearly double in extent, by the white tips to the quill-feathers, the white axillaries and under wing-coverts, and the white on the inner webs of the primaries and quill-feathers. From T. crawfurdi it is at once distinguished by its much larger size, exceeding that of the former by 4 inches in length, and the wing being \\ inch longer, while the bill, which is \ inch longer, is much more massive, and the tarsus shorter. Though the type is a female, there can be no doubt, from its correspondence with the females of the other species, that the male when obtained will be found to have the same sexual distinction of red on the head possessed by its congeners. 2. Descriptions of n e w Genera and Species of Asiatic Lepidoptera Heterocera. By F. M O O R E , F.Z.S. &c. [Received April 2, 1879.] (Plates XXXII.-XXXIV.) SPHINGES. MACROGLOSSA TAXICOLOR, n. sp. Fore wing grey-brown, with two transverse median ferruginous-brown bands, the inner band narrowest at the costal end, the outer band angled on its external border and broadest at the costal end; a distinct black spot below the apex : hind wing pale ochreous-red, with dark ferruginous-brown base and outer band. Body ferruginous- brown, with pale ochreous lateral spots; anal tuft black, slightly tipped with ferruginous. Underside ferruginous, with brown outer border and indistinct transverse narrow discal lines. Expanse If to 2 inches. Hab. Ceylon. In coll. F. M . Mackwood and F. Moore. CLANIS, Hiibner. Clanis, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 138. Basiana, Walk. Catal. Lep. Het. B. M . viii. p. 236. CLANIS UNDULOSA, n. sp. Male. Upperside cinnamon-brown. Fore wing washed with purple along posterior border ; with seven transverse dusky brown lunular bands, the third bent inward to the costa and very broadly suffused across lower end of the cell; fourth and fifth composed of broader 25* |