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Show 1877.] ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS. 597 Body bright red, with black dorsal bands and yellow anal tuft. Palpi black at tip. Legs yellow ; fore legs black-streaked. Expanse 1| inch. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. British Museum. Allied to A. (Spilosoma) maculifascia, Walk., from Java. Fam. LITHOSIIDCE. SESAPA ANDAMANA, n. sp. Allied to S. undulosa, Walk. Pale buff-yellow ; fore wing with a purplish-black transverse, central recurved band, some irregularly disposed spots at base, a spot at end of the cell, an outer sinuous band, and a maculated marginal line. Underside dusky yellow on fore wing. Antennae, palpi, and legs brownish. Expanse y6^ inch. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. British Museum. LITHOSIA INTERMIXTA, Walk. Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. Suppl. p. 229. S. Andamans (Port Blair). LITHOSIA ANTICA, Walk. Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. ii. p. 505, S. Andamans (Port Blair). BARSINE TRIVITTATA, n. sp. Male. Upperside-fore wing red, with black subbasal outwardly angled band, a median recurved band, and outer zigzag band; costa at apex and cilia black : hind wing pale red ; cilia at apex blackish. Body, antennae, and legs red. Underside-fore wing bright red, speckles at apex and cilia black ; hind wing yellowish, speckles at apex blackish. Expanse \\ inch. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. British Museum. BIZONE AMABILIS, n. sp. (Plate LIX. fig. 2, o* •) White: fore wing with four transverse crimson bands, male with confluent crimson spots, and female with a single spot at end of the cell ; hind wing pale yellow, suffused with crimson externally. Underside pale crimson, whitish at base, bands slightly apparent. Antennae, palpi, and spots on thorax crimson. Legs crimson, whitish beneath. Expanse T 8jj inch. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. British Museum and F. Moore. ARGINA CRIBRARIA, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pl. 208. f. C; Clerck, Icones, pl. 54. f. 4. S. Andamans (Port Blair), Nicobars (Kamorta), April, Meldola. |