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Show 612 MR. F. MOORE ON THE LEPIDOPTERA OF THE [June 19, CAPNODES RUFESCENS, n. sp. Male. Upperside light red ; both wings crossed by rather broad dusky-grey wavy bands, which are more or less confluent; cilia purple, with a marginal whitish inner line; body dusky ferruginous. Underside pale testaceous, speckled with ferruginous; legs pale testaceous. Expanse 1-^% inch. Andamans. In coll. British Museum. CAPNODES TRIFASCIATA, n. sp. Female. Upperside ferruginous ; cilia purple ; both wings crossed by three dusky-brown wavy bands and an outer lunular line, the basal and third bands traversed by a white, dotted, black, sinuous line ; a marginal row of black pointed lunules. Underside dusky-brown, palest on hind wing; both wings crossed by two curved, discal, indistinct, dusky bands; palpi and legs greyish, speckled with brown. Expanse l-^inch. Andamans. In coll. British Museum. FASCELLINA CASTANEA, n. sp. Differs from F. chromotaria from Sikkim, on the fore wing, in the white spot at end of the cell being small, narrow, and pointing obliquely inward instead of outward, has also a smaller apical patch. On the underside the base of the wings is yellow, the transverse discal chestnut-brown band on the fore wing is sinuous on its outer border, and broad and produced before the apex. Other markings similar. Expanse If inch. S. Andamans. In coll. British Museum. PLEURONA FALCATA. (Plate LX. fig. 6.) Pleurona falcata, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M . Suppl. p. 1564. S. Andamans (Port Blair). Fam. HYPENID.E. HYPENA QUINQUELINEALIS, n. sp. Upperside-fore wing purplish-cinereous ; some short brown streaks on costa before the apex; three white lines with brown inner borders obliquely from apex to hind margin, an inner median wavy brown line ; a brown line also on extreme outer margin, with a white cilial border : hind wing pale testaceous white, with brown marginal .line. Thorax cinereous white ; abdomen testaceous white. Underside pale testaceous; both wings reddish testaceous at the apex, and crossed by an indistinct, curved, discal, linear row of short brown streaks ; legs and antennae pale testaceous. Expanse g inch. S. Andamans. In coll. F. Moore. |