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Show 606 MR. F. MOORE ON THE LEPIDOPTERA OF THE [June 19, with white segmental bands. Underside glossy brown, pale yellowish obliquely across the fore wing and at base of hind wing; abdomen beneath and legs yellowish white ; fore legs with black bands. Expanse If inch. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. British Museum. Differs from TV. superba in its smaller size, darker colour, and difference of shape in the subbasal patch. Fam. HYBL^EIDiE. NOLASENA DULCISSIMA, Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. viii. p. 76. S. Andamans (Port Blair). Fam. GONOPTERID^E. A N O M I S FULVIDA, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 397; Walk. Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 988. S. Andamans (Port Blair). Fam. POLYDESMID^E. POLYDESMA BOARMOIDES, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 441 ; Walk. /. c. xiii. p. 1042. P. mastrucata, Feld. & Roghfr. Nov.-Reise, Lep. iv. pl. iii. f. 31. S. Andamans (Port Blair). Fam. HYPOGRAMMID^E. ERCHEIA TENEBROSA, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 66. S. Andamans (Port Blair). Fam. CATEPHID^E. ANOPHIA OLIVASCENS, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 48 ; Walk. Catal. Lep. Het. B.M. p. 1128. S. Andamans (Port Blair). Fam. HYPOCALIDJE. HYPOCALA LATIVITTA, n. sp. (Plate LX. fig. 4.) Upperside-fore wing ochreous brown, basal portion partly covered with short dark brown strigae, and washed with greyish white on the hind margin and before the apex ; a submarginal transverse series of short black pale-bordered dentate streaks, and marginal wavy black line ; orbicular and reniform marks grey-speckled : hind wing golden yellow, with a broad black marginal band and an indistinct cell-spot; cilia yellowish white, the middle portion being blackish. Thorax greyish white, collar and tegula, head, and body beneath brownish ochreous. Abdomen yellow, with a greyish dorsal streak and black anal band. Underside yellowish at base, ochreous-white on outer borders ; both wings with a broad black discal band, cell-streak, and a marginal row of dots. Nearest to 77. biarcuata. Expanse If inch. S. Andamans. In coll. F. Moore. |