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Show 187-7.] ANOAMAN A N D NICOBAR ISLANDS. 583 MELANITIS LEDA, Linn. S. N. i. 2. p. 773 (1767). S. Andamans (Port Blair). MYCALESIS MEDUS, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 488 (1775). Nicobars (Kamorta), April, Meldola. MYCALESIS DRUSIA, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. pl. 84. f. C, D. S. Andamans (Port Blair) ; Nicobars (Kamorta), April, Meldola. MYCALESIS SAMBA, Moore, Catal. Lep. E.L C. i. p. 233. S. Andamans (Port Blair). MYCALESIS RADZA, n. sp. (Plate LVIII. fig. 1.) Male. Upperside dark brown ; fore wing with a narrow, oblique, subapical white band, below which is a large black ocellus with ochreous outer ring and a white central spot; hind wing with a smaller and less distinct ocellus near middle of outer margin. Underside brown ; fore wing with a more prominent white oblique band and lower ocellus; two small geminate ocelli between the white band and apex; hind wing with an outer series of seven prominent ocelli enclosed within a narrow purple wavy line, the three upper and seventh ocelli small, fourth and sixth larger, the fifth largest. Nearest allied to M. anaxias. Expanse 1-| inch. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. H. Druce. ELYMNIAS COTTONIS (Melanitis cot.), Hewitson, Ann. N. H. 1874, xiv. p. 358. S. Andamans (Port Blair). Fam. MORPHID^. AMATHUSIA PHIDIPPUS, Linn. S. N. i. 2. p. 752 ; Cram. Pap. Exot. i. pl. 69. f. A, B. S. Andamans (Port Blair). DISCOPHORA CELINDE, Stoll, Suppl. Cram. Pap. Exot. pl. 37- f. 1 (1790). S. Andamans (Port Blair). Fam. NYMPHALTD^:. CETHOSIA NICOBARICA, Felder. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. 1862, p. 484; Novara-Reise, Lep. iii. pl. 48. f. 7, 8, J. Female. Blacker than the male; fore wing with the lower basal portion and interspaces in cell dark greenish grey; subapical marks broader, the lower dentate mark formed into a streak; hind wing with the basal portion pale greenish grey. Underside greenish brown (in the male dull vermilion), interspaces of basal streaks greenish (in the male bluish); black median transverse zigzag markings and |