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Show 1877.] ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS. 585 brownish ; a submarginal sinuous blue-black line. Body greenish. Underside mottled greyish ochreous, black-speckled, varied with confluent brighter fasciae on outer half; a pale-bordered dusky line from apex to tail; a subapical and discal spot on fore wing, and imperfect ocelli on hind wing. Expanse 3-| inches. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. H. Druce and F. Moore. EURYTELA HORSFIELDI, Boisd. Faun. Madag. p. 54, f . E. stephensi, Boisd. ibid. p. 55, § (1833). S. Andamans (Port Blair). CYRESTIS FORMOSA, Felder, Novara-Reise, Lep. iii. p. 412 (1867). S. Andamans (Port Blair). DIADEMA BOLINA, Linn. S. N. i. 2, p. 781 ; Clerck, Icon. t. 21. f. 2. S. Andamans (Port Blair). DIADEMA JACINTHA, Drury, 111. Exot. Ent. ii. pl. 21. f. I, 2 (1773); Donov. Ins. China, pl. 83. f. 1. S. Andamans (Port Blair) ; Nicobars (Tillangshong). HERONA ANDAMANA, n. sp. Male and Female. Differs from //. mar a thus in the wings being more falcated. On the upperside the colour is much darker, the markings are narrower, paler on the fore wing in the male, and white on both wings in the female. On the fore wing in both sexes the markings beyond the cell are elongated and pointed at the ends; ou the hind wing the discal band is broken up into spots, and the marginal band from the anal angle is composed of lunules in the male and of large indistinct lunular spots in the female. On the underside the markings are also whiter in the male, and in the female white throughout. Expanse 3 inches. S. Andamans (Port Bloir). In coll. W . Distant and F. Moore. PARTHENOS GAMBRISIUS, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 85; Donov. Ins. China, pl. 38 ; Doubleday & Hewits. Gen. D. Lep. pl. 51. f. 2. S. Andamans (Port Blair). LIMENITIS ANARTA, n. sp. Male. Darker than the Indian form of L. procris. Differs in the narrower white maculated band on both wings, smaller subapical costal spots, and much smaller spot at end of the cell. The outer black markings are also broader; the marginal black dentate lunules are confluent and similar to those in L. calidasa. Expanse 2\ inches. , S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. F. Moore. |