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end of cell, the upper fork running close to the margin from the 

 second third of costa ; radial emitted close to the subcostal, reducing 

 the upper discocellular to a point ; lower discocellular long, oblique, 

 nearly straight ; second and third median branches emitted nearer 

 together than the first and second; body slender; eyes prominent; 

 antennae slender, submoniliform ; palpi very small. Type Stiboges 

 nymphidia, n. sp. 



1. Stiboges nymphidia, n. sp. (Plate XXII. fig. 1.) 



Wings semitransparent, snow-white ; primaries with broad costal 

 and external dark-brown borders, sinuated internally ; two irregular 

 submarginal series of unequal white spots ; secondaries with a broad 

 outer border, undulated internally ; a sinuated disco-submarginal 

 lunulated pale brown line ; a submarginal series of elongated white 

 spots ; body dark brown ; wings below as above ; legs, palpi, and 

 venter white. Expanse of wings 1 inch 9 lines. 



Pinang {Roberts). 



Family iEgeriid^. 

 Genus Sura. 



2. Sura chalybea, n. sp. (Plate XXII. fig. 4.) 



Wings bright metallic steel-blue, becoming purple towards the 

 outer margin ; body purplish black ; legs and anal tufts black-brown ; 

 antennae black-brown. Expanse of wings 1 inch 9 lines. 



Singapore (Roberts). 



Family Sphingid.e. 



Subfamily Macroglossin.e. 



Genus Macroglossa. 



3. Macroglossa obscuriceps, n. sp. (Plate XXII. fig. 5.) 



Wings purplish black, primaries crossed near the middle bv a 

 broad ill-defined regular greyish band, bounded on each side by two 

 velvety-black parallel lines ; two scarcely visible waved discal lines ; 

 secondaries with the costal area creamy-ochreous ; interno-median 

 area crossed obliquely by a streak of dull ochreous hairs ; body above 

 ferruginous ; head and antennae dull black ; segments of abdomen 

 with lateral anterior piceous spots, the second and third segments 

 with posterior lateral ochreous spots, the fourth to sixth segments 

 with lateral white tipped tufts ; fifth segment blackish, especially at 

 the sides ; anal tuft black, tipped with ferruginous ; wings below 

 ferruginous, outer borders blackish, base ochraceous ; a central trans- 

 verse dark brown line; abdominal area of secondaries ochreous ; palpi 

 white ; pectus sordid whitish, brownish at the sides ; venter ferru- 

 ginous, with central triangular testaceous patches ; tufts as above. 

 Expanse of wings 2 inches 3 lines. 



Ayerpanas, Malacca (Roberts). 



This is one of the best- marked of the species of Macroglossa. 



