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4. Tagiades lavata, n. sp. (PL LXIX. fig. 8.) Wings above dark smoky brown ; 

 primaries witb a sinuous series of five subapical hyaline white dots ; secondaries with anal 

 half of external border snow-white, its inner edge sharply defined ; body brown. Pri- 

 maries below paler ; secondaries snow-white, with the costal area brown, its inner edge 

 diffused ; a small brown litura across the first median branch ; body below whitish. 

 Expanse of wings 1 inch 6 lines. $ , Malacca. Allied to T. pralaya. 



HETEROCERA. 



Family SPHINGID^. 



Subfamily MACROGLOSSLNiE (Grote), Butler. 



Genus MacRoglossa, Ochsenheimer. 



1. Macroglossa proxiha, Butler, P. Z. S. p. 4, pi. 1. fig. 1 (1875). S, Malacca. The 

 figure of this species in the ' Proceedings ' is not satisfactory, the yellow band being 

 left too broad, the diverging basal black streaks being also omitted. 



Family ZYG^ENID^E. 

 Subfamily Zyg^ninje, Butler. 

 Genus Syntomis, Ochsenheimer. 

 1. Syntomis basifera, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. p. 92. n. 37 (1862). S , Penang. 

 This species is intermediate in character between S. apicalis and S. detracta. 



Family ARCTTIDiE. 

 Genus Spilosoma, Stephens. 



1. Spilosoma, n. sp. A wholly white species. It is in very bad condition ; and there- 

 fore I prefer not to name it. ? , Penang. 



Family LITHOSIID^]. 



Subfamily Lithosiin^e. 



Genus Argina, Hubner. 



1. Argina cribraria, (FMlcena cribraria) Clerck, Icones, pi. 54. fig. 4. ? , Penang. 



Subfamily Hypsin^e, Butler. 

 Genus Hypsa, Hubner. 



1. Hypsa heliconia, (Phalcena-Noctua heliconia) Linnseus, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 839 

 767). ? , Malacca. 



2. Hypsa subsimilis, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. i. p. 212 (1864). ? , Malacca ; 

 c?, Penang. 



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