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prominent dentate white band from apex to above vein 6 ; hindwing suffused 

 with white to beyond middle and tornus, an oblique slightly waved medial 

 rufous line and indistinct postmedial line bent outwards to just above tornus, 

 the terminal area irrorated with whitish. 

 Habitat.— Assam, Khasis. Exp. 104 mill. 



AMBULICINyE. 



91d. Marumba microta, Hmpsn., Nov. Zool, xiv., p. 327 (1907). (Plate F., 

 f. 11). 

 Fore tibia with long curved claw at extremity. 



g. Head and thorax red-brown, the head rather paler, except the palpi ; 

 antennae whitish ; abdomen red-brown. Fore wing grey- brown suffused with 

 purplish rufous and with slight dark irroration ; a black and rufous subbasal 

 spot on vein 1 ; an oblique brown medial line diffused on outer side ; post- 

 medial area somewhat greyer ; an indistinct slightly curved subterminal line 

 with two conjoined red- brown spots on it at inner margin ; a small dark brown 

 spot on termen below apex defined by a grey lunule on inner side and with 

 a very indistinct triangular brown shade below it from termen to the subtermi- 

 nal line ; cilia dark brown. Hindwing purplish red-brown with indistinct 

 darker shade on termen near tornus ; cilia dark brown with slight whitish 

 tips towards tornus ; the underside rather redder with indistinct medial line 

 and curved postmedial line. 



Habitat. — Madras, G-odavery District ; Ceylon, Kandy. Exp. 44 mill. 

 Die. Marumba poliotis, Hmpsn., Nov. Zool., xiv., p. 327 (1907). (Plate 

 F., f. 23). 



Fore tibia with large curved claw at extremity. 



£. Head and thorax grey white, the head and tegulas tinged with rufous ; 

 metathorax with two slight tufts of blackish scales ; tarsi ringed with black ; 

 abdomen grey-white dorsally suffused with rufous except at base and with 

 fine black dorsal line expanding into a small spot on penultimate segment. 

 Forewing grey suffused with reddish brown and irrorated with black, the basal 

 and terminal areas browner and the postmedial area whiter ; some blackish 

 suffusion before the whitish antemedial line which is defined by blackish on 

 outer side, oblique from costa to median nervure, angled inwards in submedian 

 fold, then excurved and angled inwards to inner margin ; a dark medial line 

 excurved from costa to median nervure, then incurved to near antemedial line; 

 a small pale rufous discoidal spot, slightly defined by blackish ; postmedial 

 line dark, excurved from costa to vein 5, then incurved and sinuous ; subter- 

 minal line indistinctly double, excurved below costa, then oblique, dentate and 

 with small somewhat dentate black marks on its outer edge, the mark 

 below costa extending as a streak to termen and the mark at vein 4 larger ; 

 slight black marks on termen at the extremities of the veins. Hindwing grey 

 suffused with brown ; postmedial line excurved and indistinct from costa to 

 vein 4, then incurved and with whitish patch beyond it in submedian inter- 

 space, ending at tornus ; the underside whitish irrorated with f uscous, the 



