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Show 1877-] ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS. 611 dark brown ; palpi dark chocolate-brown, apical joint pale testaceous antennae brown. Expanse 1T 5^ inch. S. Andamans. In coll. British Museum. Fam. PLATYDIDJ"*. EPISPARIS VARIALIS, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 7 (1858). E. signata, Walker, I. c. Suppl. p. 1032. S. Andamans (Port Blair). Fam. REMIGIID^E. REMIGIA ARCHESIA, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pl. 273. f. F, G, 2 • P. virbia, Cram. 1. c. f. H. R. bifasciata, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. Suppl. p. 1014. S. Andamans (Port Blair). REMIGIA GREGALIS, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 320. S. Andamans (Port Blair). Fam. THERMESIID^E. SYMPIS TURBIDA, n. sp. Upperside dark brown, suffused with purplish grey at the base, crossed by apparently four equidistant indistinct darker sinuous lines on the fore wing, and one across the middle of hind wing ; a small blackish spot at lower end of cell on the fore wing. Underside dull brown, outer sinuous line slightly more prominent; hind wing with a submarginal series of pale points, one on each vein. Expanse If inch. S. Andamans. In coll. F. Moore. THERMESIA RETICULATA, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. Suppl. p. 1062. Drepanodes scitaria, Walker, I. c. Geom. p. 1488. S. Andamans (Port Blair). AZAZIA RTJBRICANS, Boisduval, Walk. Cat. Lep. B. M. xv. p. 1576. S. Andamans (Port Blair). MESTLETA DUPLEXA, n. sp. (Plate LX. fig. 5.) Upperside ochreous ; a straight pale purplish-tinted band with ochreous-brown borders extending from apex to above anal angle ; fore wing crossed by a subbasal and median sinuous indistinct lines ; anterior border of hind wing pale yellow. Underside much paler, markings nearly obsolete. Expanse f inch. S. Andamans. In coll. F. Moore. 39* |