SPHINGID^. 5 



17. Maeroglossa kanita. n. sp. : PI. i. f. 2. 



Above, dark brown, a blackish brown line along the centre of the 

 thorax, and extending along the head to the tips of the palpi, 

 abdomen with large ochreous spots at the sides of the central segments, 

 and a pair of black spots in the middle of these two segments, a 

 whitish segmental line marking the last segment, a black central 

 patch just above the anal tuft, which is large and blackish brown. 



Fore-wings with a purplish tinge, transverse bands blackish brown, 

 1st ante medial, erect and expanding downwards, 2nd a little 

 beyond the middle, broad, clearly margined with black, elbowed 

 outwardly above, and nearly erect downwards, followed by a pale out- 

 wardly curved discal line, a large and longish sub-apical squarish spot, 

 and a small blackish mark on the outer margin just below the apex. 



Hind-wings blackish brown, with a narrow ochreous central band 

 of the usual kind. 



Underside, very dark uniform reddish brown, palpi, face and 

 pectus white, a small pure white spot at the sides in each segment ; 

 wings with faint traces of some transverse lines, and with a bright 

 ochreous space at the abdominal margin of hind-wings. 



Expanse of wings 2^^ inches. 

 a. Sumatra (type) (Wallace). 



Allied to M. sitiene (Walker), differs in the closeness and greater 

 breadth of the bands on the fore-wings, the much narrower belt on 

 the hind-wings, and the darker and more uniform colouration of 

 the underside. 



18. Maeroglossa alcedo. 



Maeroglossa alcedo. Boisd. : Voy. de 1* Astrolabe, Ent., p. 188 (1832-35). 

 Butler : T. Z. S., Lond., ix. p. 526 (1876). 



a. New Caledonia (Wallace). 



19. Maeroglossa labrosa. n. sp. 



Above, dark brown with a glaucous tinge ; thorax with some chesnut 

 brown hairs, abdomen with a large square reddish ochreous spot on 

 the first three segments on each side, with a continuation of small 

 tufts of brown bristles tipped with the same colour, and with the 

 anal tuft large, similarly coloured, but with the ochreous colour 

 predominating ; fore-wings with darker transverse bands. 



1st ante medial, almost all the entire basal portion up to the band 

 darkened. 



2nd post medial, with its sides well defined by two dark lines 

 slightly curving outwards above, apical space also dark. 



Hind-wings bright ochreous, two or three brown basal streaks, and 

 a broad dark brown marginal band with a well curved and fairly 

 defined inner margin. 



Underside, face white, pectus greyish, abdomen, legs and wings red- 

 dish brown, abdominal tufts at the sides and anal tuft reddish, wings 

 broadly ochreous at their basal portions, about one third on the fore-, 

 and half on the hind-wings with three indistinct transverse central lines. 



