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terrupted in the middle by a cruciform paler brown marking; the 
fifth segment bordered behind by ochreous scales ; terminal segments 
red-brown, blackish in the middle; anal tuft black at base, red- 
brown at tip ; lateral tufts black at base, tawny at tips: wings below 
chocolate brown, transversely crossed by indistinct nebulous brown 
bars, base bright yellow ; primaries with inner margin testaceous ; 
palpi and thorax below creamy : abdomen red-brown; basal segments 
with a central longitudinal yellow patch; lateral tufts black, tipped 
with ochreous; anal tuft as above. Expanse of wings | inch 
9 lines. 
Java (drgent). Type, B.M. 
Nearly allied to M. doméylans, but differing in several important 
points. 
7. MACROGLOSSA GLAUCOPTERA, 1. sp. (Plate XXXVI. fig. 9.) 
Primaries above shining dark slaty grey, base very dark; two 
dark brown transverse subparallel bands, edged with black; two 
waved parallel discal lines from external angle to costa : secondaries 
with the costa silky stramineous, basal half orange, interrupted at 
base by two diverging black dashes, outer margin to near middle of 
wing dark brown: body dull tawny ; abdomen with ferruginous lateral 
and central spots, also whitish-tipped ferruginous lateral tufts ; anal 
tuft black, pale rosy brown at the tip: wings below deep ferrugi- 
nous, base and abdominal area of secondaries golden yellow; outer 
margin brownish, two or three indistinct transverse brown lines: 
palpi below missing, probably white ; pectus sordid whitish, reddish 
laterally ; abdomen ferruginous, lateral tufts brown, tipped with pale 
ochreous ; anal tuft red-brown. Expanse of wings 2 inches. 
Ceylon (T. Skinner). One bad example, coll. F. Moore. 
8. MacrocGtossa NIGRIFASCIATA, n. sp. (Plate XXXVII. fig. 3.) 
Primaries above greyish brown, somewhat slaty towards base; a 
black transverse subbasal band, beginning very broad on inner margin 
and narrowing to costal nervure; an angulated and curved black- 
edged olivaceous discal band; outer margin from costa to external 
angle olive-brown ; a blackish subapical spot: secondaries orange, 
costa stramineous, base with two diverging black dashes; outer 
margin broadly black-brown: body olivaceous, three basal segments 
with lateral orange spots, terminal segments with lateral white-tipped 
black tufts; anal tuft rosy-brown: wings below dull ferruginous, 
becoming smoky brown on outer margin, yellow at base ; secondaries 
with a large pyriform abdominal golden-yellow patch ; disk crossed 
by two or three brown lines; palpi missing ; pectus and centre of 
venter whity-brown, remainder of abdomen black-brown. Expanse 
of wings 2 inches 1 line. 
Ceylon. One bad example, coll. F. Moore. 
9. MacroGtossa LUTEATA, n. sp. (Plate XXXVII. fig. 5.) 
Nearly allied to M. proxima: primaries dark brown, becoming 
lilacine in the centre, crossed near base by a dark oblique band, and 
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