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Show 590 MR. F. MOORE ON THE LEPIDOPTERA OF THE [June 19, veinlet, median and internal veins, and tail streaked with red, tail white: body black above, white beneath; palpi and legs white-speckled. Underside ochreous yellow, with two outer indistinct rows of small brownish spots on fore wing, and two indistinct bands on hind wing, a speckled black-and-white mark at angle of tail. Expanse, o* If, 2 H inoh- S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. F. Moore and II. Ihuce. Quite a differently marked insect from its ally Myr. aty.nnus, Cram. AMBLYPODIA ZETA, n. sp. (Plate LVIII. fig. 6, ° .) Female. Upperside brilliant cobalt-blue, apex and outer borders broadly black. Underside light umber brown; fore wing with two pale-bordered darker spots within the cell, two beyond, and a discal row of five spots ; hind wing with two basal rows each of four pale-bordered darker spots, a discal duplex series of similar spots, and two marginal rows of pale-bordered dentate marks. Expanse 1 g inch. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. F. Moore. AMBLYPODIA NAKULA, Felder, Wien. ent. Monat. iv. p. 395 (1860); Novara-Reise, Lep. ii. p. 222, pl. 29. f. 16. S. Andamans (Port Blair). Fam. PIERID^. TERIAS FORMOSA, Hiibn. Zutr. Ex. Schmett. f. 979 (1837). S. Andamans (Port Blair). TERIAS NICOBARIENSIS, Felder, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. 1862, p. 480. Nicobars (Kar Nicobar, Kamorta and Nankowry), April, Meldola. S. Andamans (Port Blair). HEBOMOIA GLAUCIPPE, Linn. S. N. i. 2, p. 762 ; Drury, 111. Exot. Ins. i. pl. 10. f. 1. S. Andamans (Port Blair). IXIAS ANDAMANA, n. sp. Male. Upperside pale primrose-yellow, decreasing basally to yellowish white : fore wing with the apical portion brownish-black, subapical band ochreous red, and slightly recurved hiudward and outward, and irregularly margined inwardly, its borders being also minutely black-speckled: hind wing with speckled bordered black marginal band, and a few speckles at its base. Underside bright gamboge-yellow: fore wing with a broad black-speckled spot at end of the cell; a recurved submarginal series of speckled spots ending in a black patch at angle: hind wing with a round costal brown-speckled spot, three anterior submarginal spots followed by indistinct smaller spots; a black dot at end of the cell, and a dot at end of each vein on outer margin. |