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Show 582 MR. F. MOORE ON THE LEPIDOPTERA OF THE [JuilC 19, end, and a median dusky line within the space below the median vein : hind wing with white space within the cell and between the viens to one third from outer margin, the upper spaces concave, and the lower conical externally ; an indistinct dusky lunule crossing the end of the two lower median spaces, a prominent black bifid streak within the cell, and a line between lower median and submedian; a submarginal series of small white spots, two between each vein (two being obsolete in the male on the sexual mark), and a marginal series of seven smaller spots from anal angle. Head and thorax with white spots and streaks. Abdomen cinereous brown above, white beneath. Femora and tibiae white-streaked. Expanse, cf 2$, 2 2f inches. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. H. Druce and F. Moore. Near to D. vitrina, Feld. DANAIS NESIPPUS, Felder, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. 1862, p. 486. Nicobars (Sambelong). DANAIS PLEXIPPUS, Linn. S. N. i. 2. p. 767. Nicobars (Nankowry and Kamorta), Meldola, April. EUPLOEA NOVARA, Felder, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. 1862, p. 482 ; Novara Reise, Lep. ii. p. 317, pl. 39. f. 7. Nicobars (Kar Nicobar). EUPLCEA ESPERI, Felder, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. 1862, p. 482. Nicobars (Kar Nicobar). EUPLCEA ANDAMANENSIS, Atkinson, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 736. S. Andamans (Port Blair). EUPLCEA CAMORTA, n. sp. Male. Upperside-both wings dark blackish olive-brown, paler on outer margins ; fore wing with a short, straight, narrow silky streak between lower median and submedian veins ; hind wing with the anterior border broadly cinereous, the upper part of the cell being slightly greyish brown. Underside paler; fore wing with four bluish-white s'pots, one being on the costa above end of the cell, another at its lower end, the other two outside; the sexual streak long, narrow, and patch on hind margin pale flesh-colour ; hind wing with seven median bluish-white spots. Expanse 3-^ inches. Nicobars (Kamorta), April 4th, 1875. In coll. R. Meldola. HESTIA AGAMARSCHANA, Felder, Novara-Reise, Lep. ii. p. 351, pl. 43. f. 7 (1867). S. Andamans (Port Blair). Fam. SATYRID^E. L E T H E EUROPA, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 500 (1775) ; Hiibn. Samml. Schmett. i. pl. 90. f. 1-4. S. Andamans (Port Blair). |