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Show 1877.] ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS. 603 Tribe NOCTUES. Fam. LEUCANIDJE. L E U C A N I A COSTALIS, n. sp. (Plate LIX. fig. 11.) Mule and female. Upperside cream-colour : fore wing sparsely irrorated with minute brown scales, crossed by two median indistinct blackish sinuous lines ; a pale brown streak from base extending below and before the end of the cell, giving the appearance of a basal costal band ; two spots within the cell, the inner largest; a marginal row of black dots : hind wing pale ochreous brown externally ; veins darker. Underside paler; fore wing dusky brown in the middle ; a marginal row of black dots on both wings. Palpi and legs speckled with black. Expanse If inch. S. Andamans. In coll. F. Moore. This species also occurs at Darjiling and Malabar. Fam. GLOTTULID^E. R A M A D A S A , n. g. Fore wing short, broad, costa slightly convex, apex truncated, exterior margin oblique hindward, posterior margin slightly lobed towards the base; costal vein short, ending at half the length of costa; cell broad ; subcostal vein six-branched, first and second branches arising close together a little beyond half length of the cell, the third and sixth at end of cell, the third terminating before the apex, the fourth and fifth arising below from near the base of third and terminating at and below the apex, the sixth running parallel below the fifth; median vein three-branched, branches at equal distances from end of the cell, each recurved; discocellulars of equal length; one radial, slightly recurved ; submedian vein running parallel and close to median and lower branch, terminating on exterior margin considerably above posterior angle ; internal vein straight, terminating above the angle. Hind wing trigonal, short, exterior margin produced in the middle ; abdominal margin straight; cell short; subcostal vein three-branched, first branch arising from half the length of the cell, second and third starting together at end of the cell; median vein three-branched, lower branch arising from an angle before end of the cell, second and third together at base from end of cell; upper discocellular long, lower short; one radial; sub-median vein straight. Antennae very long, filiform. Palpi short, clothed with short adpressed scales; second joint short, conical, ascending. Body moderately stout; abdomen tapering towards the apex, extending beyond hind wing. Legs long ; tibia clothed above with lougish hair; mid and hind tibiae spurred. RAMADASA PAVO. (Plate LIX. fig. 8.) Chasmina pavo, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M . part ix. p. 147. S. Andamans. In coll. British Museum and F. Moore. |