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Show 604 MR. F. MOORE ON THE LEPIDOPTERA OF THE [June 19, Fam. APAMID^E. SPODOPTERA CILIUM, Guen. Noct. i. p. 156, 6". S. insulsa, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. Suppl. p. 648, 2 • S. Andamans (Port Blair). SPODOPTERA NUBES, Guen. Noct. i. p. 155. P. infecta, Walk. I.e. ix. p. 196. S. Andamans (Port Blair). PRODENIA CILIGERA, Guen. Noct. i. p. 164. P. glaucistriga, Walk. 1. c. ix. p. 197, 2 • S. Andamans (Port Blair). ILLATIA CEPHUSALIS, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 209 (1858). Miana inornata, Walk. I. c. Suppl. p. 677. S. Andamans (Port Blair). PERIGEA CANORUFA, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. Suppl. p. 683, 6 . P. illecta, Walk. 1. c. p. 684, § . S. Andamans (Port Blair). THALPOPHILA CUPREA, n. sp. (Plate LIX. fig. 10.) Upperside-fore wing dark cupreous brown, some narrow curved purple lines and black streaks at the base, an irregular recurved sinuous purple line with black inner border across the disk; two similar-coloured spots in the cell, and dentate streaks on outer margin, bordered with white before the apex : hind wing golden yellow, with broad cupreous brown outer band. Thorax, palpi, legs, and abdomen beneath cupreous brown. Abdomen golden yellow, tip and dorsal tuft reddish. UndersiJe pale reddish brown, yellowish at base ; both wings with indistinct outer sinuous brown line. Expanse 1| inch. Andamans. In coll. F. Moore. Fam. CARADRINID.E. A M Y N A SELENAMPHA, Guen. Noct. i. p. 406 ; Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. p. 1696. Alamis spoliata, Walk. 1. c. p. 1050. S. Andamans (Port Blair). Fam. HAMEROSID^E. APSARASA FIGURATA, n. sp. Bluish black. Differs above in both sexes from A. radians from Sikkim in the fore wing having the smaller marginal spots of less size, in the large median spot on hind margin being broadest at its upper end, and in the hind wing having the white space confined to- |