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Show 1877.] ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS. 609 hind wing the outer pale dentate lunular line is nearer the margin. On the underside the black lunular bands are more curved and wider apart, the outer band being nearer the margin. From II. feniseca it may be distinguished by its longer fore wings. Expanse 3^ inches. S. Andamans. In coll. British Museum and F. Moore. HAMODES DISCISTRIGA, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 78. S. Andamans (Port Blair). ENTOMOGRAMMA FAUTRIX, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 204 ; Feld. Nov.- Reise, Lep. iv. pl. 115. f. 5. S. Andamans (Port Blair). Fam. OPHIUSID.E. LAGOPTERA HONESTA, Hiibn. Exot. Schmett. f. 1, 2. S. Andamans (Port Blair). LAGOPTERA CORONATA, Fabr. Ent. Syst. p. 596. no. 24. L. leonina, Fabr. ib. no. 25. L. magica, Hiibn. Exot. Schmett. f. 535. S. Andamans (Port Blair). ACHCEA MELICERTA, Drury, Ins. i. pl. 23. A. tigrina, Fabr. Spec. Ins. no. 52. S. Andamans (Port Blair). ACHCEA NUBIFERA, n. sp. (Plate LIX. fig. 9, <5 i) Male and female. Upperside-fore wing vinous brown, crossed by an indistinct subbasal black wavy line and a discal recurved transverse sinuous line with pale lunular outer border ; the disk in the male clouded with dark fuliginous brown : hind wins; dark cinereous brown, crossed by a narrow white curved median band; a short ochreous streak before anal angle, a pale spot on middle of hind margin, and another at anterior angle. Thorax vinous brown; abdomen cinereous brown, anal tuft ochreous. Underside cinereous brown ; disk of fore wing dark fuliginous brown ; hind wing with a narrow streak at end of the cell, a transverse broad discal and narrow inner band of dark cinereous brown; palpi cinereous brown ; legs cinereous brown above, femora and tibiae ochreous beneath. Expanse 2§ inches. S. Andamans. In coll. F. Moore. OPHIUSA ARCUATA, n. sp. Fore wing vinous greyish brown, with a broad dark brown basal band occupying one third of the wing, the band partly crossed near the base by a short pale streak, and its border slightly convex at the middle; a transverse discal band, broadest on the costa, its outer border produced to a point before the apex and then incurved to the PROC. ZOOL. SOC-1877, No. XXXIX. 39 |