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Show 610 MR. F. MOORE ON THE LEPIDOPTERA OF THE [June 19, hind margin ; two small dentate spots from the point of the band to the apex; veins on outer margin streaked with grey ; hind wing dusky brown, with an indistinct pale purplish grey subbasal fascia and a streak from anal angle. Underside dusky brown, with indistinct darker sinuous transverse discal lines. Expanse lg inch. S. Andamans. In coll. F. Moore. This species is also common in collections from India, Ceylon, and Java, and is the species described by M . Guenee (Noct. iii. p. 269) as the O.joviana of Cramer, remarking that the figure of O. joviana (Cram. pl. 399. fig. B ) was not correctly given. Unfortunately for M . Guenee, several specimens of 0. joviana before me, from the Madras and Malabar coasts of India, perfectly agree with Cramer's figure above quoted, and are, moreover, identical with specimens, also before me, from Java, collected by the late Dr. Horsfield, to which he has applied the name of O. myops. HYP^ZETRA STIGMATA, n. sp. Male. Upperside purple-brown: fore wing with a broad, greyish-black, basal, outwardly-oblique band ; a similar band beyond, broad on the costa and including a curved brown streak and pale oblique spot, narrowing to hind margin before the angle; the interspace between the bands pale ; a marginal row of pale spots and black confluent lunules; cilia brown : hind wing with a black streak from anal angle and marginal lunules beneath : cilia at apex and anal angle white. Underside brown, crossed by a median transverse row of partly connected black spots ; a cinereous silky band or patch in cell of fore wing, and a similar streak below apex of hind wing; antennae ferruginous-brown ; joints of palpi black at sides, white beneath; legs black above, white beneath ; tarsi tufted and banded with white. Expanse If inch. Andamans. In coll. British Museum. Fam. POAPHILIDJE. ILUZIA PYRALINA, n. sp. Male. Upperside pale brownish testaceous ; both wings with a nearly straight, narrow, brown pale inner-bordered band crossing from before the apex to middle of abdominal margin; a marginal row of black pointed lunules ; fore wing with a brown border below the costa, a blackish spot within the cell, an oval spot at its end, and a few indistinct spots beyond ; hind wing with an indistinct blackish spot in the cell, and a prominent spot outside the band. Underside yellowish testaceous ; fore wing with a black spot within and a larger spot at end of the cell, a transverse discal straight row of spots and marginal series of pointed lunules ; hind wing with a large spot in the cell, two curved, discal, transverse series of spots and marginal row of pointed lunules ; legs brownish, streaked with |