310 MR. A. ANDERSON ON THE [Mur. 21, 



Genus Lophura. 



4. Lophura minima, n. sp. (Plate XXII. fig. 2.) 

 Primaries above grey, apical area broadly purplish brown, crossed 



by a dark brown disoal line, and bounded internally by a triangular 

 subcostal blackish spot ; base brownish ; two black spots on inner 

 margin ; secondaries tawny, with broad ferruginous external border ; 

 head and thorax grey, abdomen rosy greyish, dorsal region dark ; 

 wings below dull tawny, powdered, especially towards the outer mar- 

 gins, with grey ; secondaries with a black-edged white dot at end of 

 cell ; anal angle, and two parallel central transverse lines, ferruginous ; 

 body below rosy greyish, back of pectus whitish. Expanse of wings 

 1 inch 1 line. 

 Ayerpanas, Malacca (Roberts). 



Subfamily Smerinthin^e. 

 Genus Mimas. 



5. Mimas terranea, n. sp. (Plate XXII. fig. 3.) 

 Primaries greyish clay-brown, crossed by two central diffused red- 

 dish bands ; a dull black dot at end of cell ; several dark grey discal 

 spots towards apex ; secondaries dark brick-red ; body greyish clay- 

 brown ; antennae and lateral tufts on metathorax reddish ; wings be- 

 low rosy greyish ; primaries with the discoidal cell and interno-median 

 area ferruginous ; a straight transverse discal brown line from costa 

 to inner margin : secondaries with an elongated cuneiform ferrugi- 

 nous abdominal streak; two central parallel brown lines; fringe yel- 

 lowish ; body rosy greyish. Expanse of wings 3 inches 2 lines. 



Ayerpanas, Malacca (Roberts). 



A very well marked and distinct species. 



2. Corrections of and Additions to " Raptorial Birds of 

 North-western India." — Part 11.* By Andrew Ander- 

 son, F.Z.S. &c. 



[Received February 22, 1876.] 

 (Plate XXIII.) 



Another collecting- season enables me to add the following novelties 

 and additional information on the subject of my last paper, thus 

 bringing up the number of Raptorial Birds occurring in the plains 

 of the North-western Provinces to no less than fifty-two species. 



Additions to former lists are indicated by an asterisk. 



2. VULTUR CALVUS, Scop. 



In allusion to my having found Gyps bengalensis resting on palm- 

 trees, I have now to mention that on the 28th January last I saw a 

 pair of King Vultures building on a solitary tar-tree ( llorassus fla- 



* For Part I. see J'. Z. S. 1875, page 16. 



