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Show 608 MR. F. MOORE ON THE LEPIDOPTERA OF THE [June 19, OPHIDERES HYPERMNESTRA, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. pl. 323. f. A, B. S. Andamans (Port Blair). PHYLLODES CONSOBRINA, Westw. Cabinet Orient. Ent. pl. 28. f. 2. P. perspicillator, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 120. S. Andamans (Port Blair). POTAMOPHORA MANLIA, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. pl. 92. f. A. S. Andamans (Port Blair). Fam. EREBID.E. TAVIA SUBSTRUENS, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1276. S. Andamans (Port Blair). ARGIVA HIEROGLYPHICA, Drury, 111. Exot. Ins. ii. pl. 2. f^l. S. Andamans (Port Blair). NYCTIPAO TRUNCATA, n. sp. Male. Allied to N. obliterans, but differs in being smaller, the fore wing having the veins pale-streaked ; an indistinct darker subapical recurved streak ; the retort mark much smaller, compressed laterally and concave on its outer border, and the recurved streak beneath it not apparent; the hind wing is much smaller, shorter, and less produced at the apex. Expanse 3| inches. S. Andamans. In coll. British Museum. NYCTIPAO CREPUSCULARIS, Linn. S. N. 2811, 13 ; Clerck, Icones, pl. 53. f. 1, 4. S. Andamans (Port Blair). Fam. OMMATOPHORID.E. SPEIREDONIA RETRAHENS, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1294. S. Andamans (Port Blair). SPEIREDONIA CONSPICUA, Feld. Nov.-Reise, Lep. iv. pl. 113. f. 7. S. Andamans (Port Blair). Fam. HYPOPYRID^;. SPIRAMA COH^RENS, WTalk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1321, $ . S. Andamans (Port Blair). HYPOPYRA PERSIMILIS, n. sp. Similar to H. ossigera, but differs on the upperside in the fore wing having a distinct brown fascia from the apex to middle of hind margin, and the marginal white lunular band prominent; in the |