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Show 1877.] ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS. 587 maculated band more erect and the lower spots smaller; the band the hind wing is also straighter, more evenly bordered on the inner edge, and regularly sinuous on its outer edge. Tbe female on the fore wing has the band continuous and less broken up into spots ; it is also broader at the costal end; the band on the hind wing, as in the male, is also more evenly edged within and regularly sinuous without. On the underside both sexes are much paler, are suffused with lilac exteriorly, and have no red in the discoidal marks. Expanse, j 24;, $ 3f inches. S. Andamans. In coll. F. Moore and H. Druce. Fam. LEMONIID^E. ABISARA KAUSAMBI, Feld. Wien. ent. Monats. iv. p. 397(1860). S. Andamans (Port Blair). ABISARA BIFASCIATA, n. sp. (Plate LVIII. fig. 2, $ .) From the Malayan A. kausambi this differs on the upperside in the discal transverse bands being sinuous; and in the female these are prominent. The two bands on the fore wing of the female are separated and broadly white anteriorly ; the upper and lower spots on the hind wing are also larger. On the underside the bands are broader and sinuous, and on the hind wing there are but two anterior spots instead of three. Expanse, <? 1-f, 2 1-» inch. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. F. Moore. Fam. LYC^ENID^. CURETIS SARONIS, n. sp. Male and Female. Nearest allied to C. insularis of Java, but smaller, the fore wing on the upperside of the male having the black border less angulated on its inner margin ; the underside of both wings is white with slight dusky undulated lines, C. insularis being cream-coloured and with rather prominent undulated lines. Female dark brown, with golden-yellow disk. Expanse 1| inch. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. F. Moore and IL Druce. PITHECOPS HYLAX, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 526 (1775); Horsf. Catal. Lep. p. 66, pl. 1. f. 2 ; Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 161. S. Andamans (Port Blair). CASTALIUS ETHION (Lyceena ethi), • Hewitson; Doubleday & Hewits. Gen. D. Lep. pl. 76. f. 3 ; iid. Exot. Butt. v. Lye. pl. i. f. 5. CASTALIUS ELNA (Lye. el.), Hewits. Exot. Butt. v. Lye. pl. i. f. S. Andamans (Port Blair). CASTALIUS MANLUENA (Lye. man.), Felder, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. 1862, p. 484. Nicobars (Kondul). |