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Show 1877.] ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS. 591 Female. Differs in the fore wing from the male in having the yellow portion confined to the middle of the wing below the cell, the ochreous red band being narrow and broken by the upper median vein; the band on the hind wing is also broader : on the underside the yellow is of a deeper tint, and the markings darker and broader; the outer margins with minute black speckles and narrow strigae. Expanse, cf 2|, 2 2§ inches. S. Andamans. In coll. F. Moore. APPIAS GALATHEA, Feld. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. 1862, p. 485; Novara-Reise, p. 165. Nicobars (SambelongL CATOPSILIA CATILLA, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pl. 229, f. D, E, $ (1782): Butler, Lep. Exot. p. 24, pl. 9. f. 7-10. Pieris hilaria, Cram. pl. 339. f. A, B, o*. S. Andamans (Port Blair). CATOPSILIA CROCALE, Cram. Pap. Exot. i pl. 55, f. C, D(1779); Butler, Lep. Exot. pl. 9. f. 1, 2. S. Andamans (Port Blair) ; Nicobars (Kamorta), April, Meldola. CATOPSILIA CHRYSEIS, Drury, 111. Exot. Ent. i. pl. 12. f. 3, 4 (1773); Butler, /. c. pl. 15. f. 4-7. S. Andamans (Port Blair). PIERIS NAMA, Moore, Catal. Lep. E.L C. i. p. 76 ; P. Z. S. 1857, p. 102, pl. 44. f. 1, 2 ; Hewits. Exot. Butt. Pieridee, pl. 6. f. 37. S. Andamans (Port Blair). PIERIS LICHENOSA, n. sp. Allied to P. coronis (Cram. pl. 44. f. B, C) : differs on the upperside in the veins being black-lined, the apex of fore wing more evenly white-speckled between the veins, the hind wing having a well-formed marginal band. The underside is much darker green, and is densely covered with black speckles, giving the wings a mossy appearance. Expanse 2± inches. S. Andamans. In coll. F. Moore. ERONIA NARAKA, n. sp. Nearest to E. pingasa of S. India ; both wings in the male with similar broad black outer border and widened veins, but without the black streak within the cell ; the fore wing also has two additional small blue costal spots above the discal series, and a small white spot near the apex. In the female the markings are narrower, shorter, and the marginal spots much smaller. Expanse 3 inches. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. F. Moore and H. Druce. |