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TWO NEW INDIAN SPHINGIDAE IN THE BRITISH 



MUSEUM. 



By Sir GEORGE HAMPSON, Bakt., F.Z.S., etc. 



1. Marumba microta spec. nov. 



Foretibia with long carved claw at extremity. 



<$. Plead and thorax red-brown, the head rather paler, except palpi ; antennae 

 whitish ; abdomen red-brown. Forewing grey-brown suffused with purplish 

 rnfons and with slight dark irroratiou ; a black and rufous snbbasal spot on vein 1 ; 

 an oblique brown medial line, diffused on outer side ; postmedial area somewhat 

 greyer ; an indistinct slightly curved subterminal line with two conjoined red-brown 

 spots on it at inner margin ; a small dark brown spot on termen below apex defined 

 by a grey lunule on inner side and with a very indistinct triangular brown shade 

 below it from termen to the subterminal line ; cilia dark brown. Hindwing 

 purplish red-brown with indistinct darker shade on termen near tornus ; cilia 

 dark brown with slight whitish tips towards tornus ; the underside rather redder, 

 with indistinct oblique medial line and curved postmedial line. 



Expanse, 44 mm. 



Hab. Godavery District, Madras (Hearsey). 



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2. Marumba poliotis spec. nov. 



Foretibia with large curved claw at extremity. 



(J. Head and thorax grey-white, the head and tegulae tinged with rufous; 

 metathorax with two slight tufts of blackish scales ; tarsi ringed with black ; 

 abdomen grey-white dorsally suffused with rufous except at base and with fine black 

 dorsal line expanding into a small spot on penultimate segment. Forewing grey 

 suffused with reddish brown and irrorated with black ; the basal and terminal areas 

 browner and the postmedial area whiter ; some blackish suffusion before the whitish 

 antemedial line, which is defined by blackish on outer side, oblique from costa 

 to median nervure, angled inwards in submedian fold, then excurved and angled 

 inwards to inner margin ; a dark medial line excurved from costa to median nervure, 

 then incurved to near antemedial line ; a small pale rufous discoidal spot, slightly 

 defined by blackish ; postmedial line dark ; excurved from costa to vein 5, then 

 incurved and sinuous ; subterminal line indistinctly double, excurved below costa, 

 then oblique, dentate and with small somewhat dentate black marks on its outer 

 edge, the mark below costa extending as a streak to termen and the mark at vein 4 

 larger ; slight black marks on termen at the extremities of the veins. Hindwing 

 grey suffused with brown : postmedial line excurved and indistinct from costa 

 to vein 4, then incurved and witli whitish patch beyond it in submedian interspace, 

 ending at tornus ; the underside whitish irrorated with fuscous, the postmedial 

 line fine, a curved dentate subterminal line with slight brownish band beyond it 

 becoming terminal below vein 4. 



Expanse, 54 mm. 



Hab. Ganjam. 



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