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Show 1887.] LITTLE-KNOWN BUTTERFLIES FROM INDIA. 463 band ; all these spots composed of a pale centre, then a narrow black line, outwardly defined with a pale line; beyond the discal macular band is a fuscous diffused fascia, outwardly defined from the abdominal margin to the second median nervule by a pale lunular line ; in the next two interspaces the fuscous fascia almost reaches the margin and encloses two of the pale lunules ; a series of black marginal lunules between the veins; a fine anteciliary black line ; the very small anal lobe with a deep black round spot, with a few obsolete silvery scales crowning it; a few also in the two next interspaces. Cilia of the colour of the ground throughout. Apparently nearest to the Amblypodia ocrida of Hewitson1, from which it differs in the colour of the upperside, that species being " silvery cerulean blue ; " there also appears to be some difference in the details of the markings of the underside. I have named this species after Mr. R. Wimberley, who captured two specimens of this beautiful species in the South Andamans, together with several other species which had not been previously obtained on those islands, not the least interesting of which is a female specimen of the Deudorix smilis of Hewitson, described ambiguously from " East India." ISOTEINON FLAVALUM, n. sp. (Plate XL. fig. 10, 3 •) Hab. Sikkim. Expanse. 3 I'2 inch. M A L E . U P P E R S I D E : both wings dark brown. Fore wing with three small subapical increasing spots, the upper one minute; a small quadrate spot at the lower outer end of the cell, an elongated one at the base of the second median interspace, a much larger quadrate one below it and placed nearer the base of the wing in the first median interspace, all semitransparent diaphinous ochreous. Hind wing with the middle of the disk clothed with long greenish-ochreous hairs. Cilia cinereous throughout. U N D E R S I D E : fore wing also dark brown, the spots as above, the costa narrowly and the apex widely (but not reaching the anal angle or the outer margin) yellow. Hind wing yellow throughout except the outer margin, which is increasingly dark brown, widening to the anal angle ; a conspicuous though small black spot on the discoidal cell, three small dark-brown ring-spcts placed very close together below it, and a fourth minute black spot well separated from the others towards the apex. No secondary male sexual characters. Head and body above dark brown, below with legs yellow. Antenna black, the club tipped beneath with white. This pretty and very distinct little species is nearest allied to Isoteinon satwa, mihi2, but is abundantly distinct; the underside has no purple washing, and on the hind wing the yellow coloration occupies nearly the entire surface; in L. satwa it is confined to the anterior half of the wing. 1 111. Diurn. Lep., Lyccenidw, p. 14 b. n. 80, pl. iii. a. figs. 38, 39 (1869); from Mindanao, one of the Philippine Islands. a Journ A S. B. vol. Iii. pt. 2, p. 86. n. 31, pl. x. fig. 15, male (1883). 31* |