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Show 1877.] ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS. 593 PAPILIO EURYPYLUS (?), Linn. S. N. ii. p. 754; Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. pl. 122, f. C, D. ? Axion, Feld. S. Andamans (Port Blair). PAPILIO ANTIPHATES, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. pl. 72, f. A, B. S. Andamans (Port Blair). Fam. HESPERID.E. ISMENE C H R O M U S , Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pl. 284, f. E (1782). S. Andamans (Port Blair). ISMENE MALAYANA, Felder, Wien. ent. Monat. iv. p. 401 (1860); Novara-Reise, Lep. iii. pl. 72. f. 15. S. Andamans (Port Blair). TAGIADES ALICA, n. sp. (Plate LVIII. fig. 11, J .) Male. Allied to T. obscurus, Mabille, from Java, but of a blacker colour, the fore wing being more pointed, the hind wing more produced at the anal angle. Markings above similar ; on the underside the hind wing has more prominent black discal marks, and a much broader black border on the grey portion of the outer margin. Expanse 1-| inch. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. F. Moore. TAGIADES HELFERI (Pteryg. h.), Felder, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. p. 483 (1862). Nicobars (Pulo Milu). PLESIONEURA ALYSOS, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 789. S. Andamans (Port Blair). HESPERIA CAHIRA, n. sp. (Plate LVIII. fig. 8.) Male and female. Upperside dark rufous-brown, suffused with olive-brown at the base. Male. Fore wing with two small yellow spots at end of the cell, two on the disk, and two very small spots before the apex. Female, with a series of three small spots before the apex and another spot of the same size between them and the two on the disk ; cilia of hind wing yellowish cinereous. Underside of male rufous-brown ; female olive-brown, with a pale greyish streak on middle of hind margin. Expanse, S If, 2 If inch. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. F. Moore. Near to H. oceia, Hewits. ; differs in the male above in the absence of the basal tuft of hairs on the hind wing, and beneath also in the absence of the prominent and large white patch and its central spot on the fore wing. HESPERIA OCEIA, Hewits. Desc. Hesp. p. 31 (1868). S. Andamans (Port Blair). PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1877, No. XXXVIII. 38 |