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Show 594 MR. F. MOORE ON THE LEPIDOPTERA OF THE [June 19, HESPERIA COLACA, n. sp. (Plate LVIII. fig. 7.) Male and female. Dark olive-brown ; cilia cinereous : fore wing with a recurved discal series of seven small yellow spots, the second from the hind margin being the largest; a small spot also at end of the cell. Underside brown, apex and hind wing speckled with olive-green scales; a median discal series of small spots on hind wing. Near to H. cinnara. Expanse, o* 1 ^ , $ lf^ inch. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. F. Moore. HESPERIA BETURIA, Hewitson, Desc. Hesp. p. 36 (1868). S. Andamans (Port Blair). HESPERIA MATHIAS, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Supp. p. 433 (1798); Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. B. M . p. 275, pl. 3. f. 8. Nicobars (Kamorta), April, Meldola. TELEGONUS THYRSIS, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 532 (1775). H. pandia, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 790. S. Andamans (Port Blair). PAMPHILA PURREEA, n. sp. (Plate LVIII. fig. 10.) Upperside blackish brown ; cilia yellow, slightly alternated with black ; fore wing with a gamboge-yellow basal streak, and a median oblique irregular band commencing from near apex, extending to hind margin and terminating at its base ; hind wing with a short median yellow wavy band. Underside sulphur-yellow; fore wing with a broad dark-brown basal streak, a small spot at end of cell, and a large patch at posterior angle; hind wing with a brown speckled streak along inner margin, terminating broadly at anal angle. Body above brown, head and thorax interspersed with yellow hairs; abdomen narrowly banded with yellow ; palpi black above, yellow below. Legs and body beneath yellow. Expanse lg inch. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. W . C. Hewitson and F. M. PAMPHILA GOLA, n. sp. (Plate LVIII. fig. 9, 6 •) Male. Upperside dark vinous-brown ; fore wing with an oblique discal irregular sinuous-bordered golden-yellow band, the baud bent before the apex and indented at end of the cell; hind wing with a median discal golden-yellow band, and a few hairs of the same colour at the base ; cilia edged with golden yellow. Front of head, palpi, and. legs golden yellow. Underside with the bands as above; costa and apex of fore wing and the hind wing suffused with yellow ; both wings with a blackish streak at end of the cell. Expanse 1 inch. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. F. Moore. PAMPHILA MESOIDES, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. 1877. S. Andamans, Port Blair. |