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Show 1877.] ANDAMAN AND NIC0BAR ISLANDS. 581 Table of Contents. RHOPALOCERA. . , Species. Danaidae \\ Satyridae 7 Morphidac 2 Nymphalidaa 24 Lemoniidee 2 Lycaenidae 24 Pieridae l \ Papilionidae y Hesperidae 14 - 104 HETEROCERA. Sphinges 9 Bom by ces ,. g 32 Noctues g*/ Pyrales 37 Cram bices \ Uranides 1 Geometres ] y Tortrices and Tineines 5 - 170 Total1 2H Tribe PAPILIONES. Family DANAIDAE. DANAIS LIMNIACE, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. pl. 59. f. D, E. D. leopardus, Butler, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 52. Nicobars (Nankowry), April, Meldola. DANAIS AGLEOIDES, Felder, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. 1862, p. 486. Nicobars (Sambelong). DANAIS GRAMMICA, Boisd. Spec. Gen. Le'p. i. pl. 11. f. 10 (1836). Nicobars (Kamorta), Meldola, April. DANAIS MELANOLEUCA, n. sp. (Plate LVIII. fig. 3.) Male and female. Black : fore wing with white space within the cell, two thirds of space between lower median and submedian veins ; four discal spots, an indistinct costal basal streak, three costal spots before the apex, two lower elongated streaks, followed by a dentate spot and three smaller rounded submarginal spots; some marginal white dots near posterior angle, and a small spot below the apex ; the space within the cell with short, narrow, dusky streaks from its ' Of which 93 are new species. |