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Show 596 MR. F. MOORE ON THE LEPIDOPTERA OF THE [June 19, CALYMNIA PAVONICA, n. sp. Similar to C. panopus, but differs from both Java and Indian specimens in its much darker colours, the fore wing having the basal band broken up and not continued obliquely onto the costa ; between this and the discal band are two distinctly separated median, dusky, wavy bands : in the hind wing the markings are very black and with a distinct median broad fascia ; the basal space red : thorax brown-black ; abdomen very dark fawn-colour, apical segments only fringed with black. Expanse 5 inches. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. British Museum. PROTOPARCE ORIENTALIS, Butler, Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 609 (1876). Sphinx convolvu/i, Moore, Catal. Lep. E.L C i. p. 267. S. Andamans (Port Blair). Tribe BOMBYCES. Fam. AGARISTID^E. EUSEMIA ALBOMARGINATA, Moore, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 569. S. Andamans (Port Blair). Fam. ZYG,ENID.£. Subfam. THYRETIN.E. ERESSA AFFINIS, n. sp. (Plate LIX. fig. 3.) Allied to E. confinis, Walk. Transparent markings of fore wing similar, but more rounded, the spot within the cell smaller; space on hind wing confined to a median rounded spot beyond the cell, and crossed only by a single vein. Expanse 1 inch. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. F. Moore. Obtained also from the district of Calcutta and the Khasia hills by the late W . S. Atkinson, Esq. Subfam. EUCHROMIIN.E. E U C H R O M I A POLYMENA, Linn. S. N. ; Cram. Pap. Exot. i. pl. 31. f. D. S. Andamans (Port Blair). Fam. ARCTIID^*. A L P E N U S BISERIATUS, n. sp. Pale orange-red, brightest on hind wing ; fore wing with two transverse median recurved series of blackish spots, and two intermediate spots at end of the cell; some smaller spots at base of wing ; hind whig with a black spot at end of the cell and at anal angle. |