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Show 1877.] ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS. 599 Expanse 2g inches. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. British Museum and F. Moore. Fam. CALLIDULID.E. CLEOSIRIS CATAMITA, Geyer, Hiibn. Zutr. f. 653, 654. S. Andamans (Port Blair). Fam. NYCTEMERID.E. N Y C T E M E R A LACTICINIA, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. pl. 128. f. E. S. Andamans (Port Blair). PITASILA, n. g. Fore wing short, rather broad, costa slightly arched, apex angled, outer margin short, oblique, hind margin straight; subcostal vein five-branched, third, fourth, and fifth on a short foot-stalk from end of cell; first and third discocellulars very short, second bent inward ; one radial from lower angle of upper discocellular; median vein four-branched, first and second starting from angles of lower discocellular, third contiguous, fourth at half length of cell; one submedian. Hind wing trigonal, apex rounded, exterior margin convex in the middle ; subcostal vein two-branched, disposed as in fore wing ; one submedian. Body short, attenuate in male. Antennae slender, bipecti-nated in male to tip, minutely pectinated in female. Palpi porrect, third joint cylindrical. Legs naked. PITASILA LEUCOSPILOTA, n. sp. (Plate LIX. fig. 7.) Male and female. Fore wing with a series of four white spots from base of costa, the third largest, also two within the cell, three larger spots below the cell and confluent on hind margin, the lower basal enclosing a black spot, and the third two spots, one above the other iu male, confluent in female; two spots also befcfre the apex: hind wing with a broad black marginal band, on which are two small white spots, one near angle, the other on middle of margin; a small black spot at upper end of cell and two above it on margin; cilia white, at apical angle of hind wing. Underside as above. Head and thorax yellow ; abdomen white, with yellow tip ; black spots on head and thorax, also dorsal and lateral row on abdomen ; antennae black ; legs white, streaked with black. Expanse, d* If, $ 2 inches. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. Brit. Mus. and F. Moore. Allied to P. maculosum, Feld. Nov.-Reise, pl. 103. f. 2, to P. variolosa, Feld. ib. pl. 129. f. 15, and also to P. varians, Walk. Fam. EUSCHEMID^E. EUSCHEMA ANDAMANA, n. sp. Male and female. Upperside purple-black, both wings with the outer margin and discal spots darker purple-black: fore wing with a broad subbasal bright yellow band, which is irregularly margined and |