18/9.] MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOFTERA. 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 tbat of the former by 4 inches in length, 

 and the wing being 1^- inch longer, while the bill, which is h inch 

 longer, is much more massive, and the tarsus shorter. 



Though the type is a female, there can be no doubt, from its cor- 

 respondence 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 new Genera and Species of Asiatic Lepi- 

 doptera Heterocera. By F. Moore, F.Z.S.&c. 



[Eeceived 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 ferrugi- 

 nous-brown, with pale ochreous lateral spots ; anal tuft black, 

 slightly tipped with ferrugiuous. Underside ferruginous, with brown 

 outer border and indistinct transverse narrow discal lines. 



Expanse 1 % to 2 inches. 



Hub. 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 undtjlosa, n. sp. 



Male. Upperside cinnamon-brown. Fore wing washed with purple 

 along posterior border ; with seven transverse dusky bvown 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 



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