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Show 1877.] ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS. 615 Expanse, o* f, $ 1 inch. S. Andamans (Port Blair). Has also been taken in Sikkim. In coll. F. Moore. Fam. ASOPID^E. S A M E A CUPRINALIS, n. sp. Male pale purplish-yellow, diaphanous ; cilia whitish, alternated with brown; fore wing with two cupreous-brown spots in the cell, beneath which are two narrow wavy lines, a broad outer marginal band bordered by a narrow wavy inner line; hind wing with a pale-centred brown spot at end of cell and a narrow line beneath, a broad marginal band and inner wavy bordered line. Body purplish-yellow, brown-speckled; anal tuft white, antennae pale brown. Legs pale-yellowish, fore legs and middle femora and tibiae with a black spot at the joints. Expanse f inch. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. British Museum. SAMEA PURPURASCENS, n. sp. Male. Upper and underside very pale purplish grey ; fore wing with two blackish-bordered pearly white spots within the cell, and a short transverse series of smaller contiguous spots before the apex ; two indistinct median transverse dusky-brown bands, which also cross the hind wings; outer edges of wings brown. Legs whitish, banded with brown. Expanse -^ inch. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. British Museum. ASOPIA LIMBOLALIS, n. sp. Upperside silky gamboge-yellow ; fore wing with four and hind wing with two short oblique transverse ochry-red bands; both wings with a broad golden-brown pale-bordered marginal band. Cilia of fore wing yellow, of hind wing brown, bordered by a blackish marginal line. Body ochry-brown above, beneath and legs yellowish-white. Palpi ochry-yellow. Underside pale silky-yellow with broad golden-brown band. Expanse T 7 7 inch. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. British Museum. LEUCINODES ORBONALIS, Guen. Delt. et Pyr. p. 223 (1854). S. Andamans (Port Blair). COPTOBASIS ANDAMANALIS, n. sp. (Plate LX. fig. 14.) Allied to Cop. eemealis, Walk. Glossy cupreous-brown ; fore wing with a pale yellowish spot at end of the cell, an oval spot beyond, and a smaller one beneath them ; hind wing with two yellow median transverse spots. Cilia cinereous. Body above brown, beneath whitish. Palpi black tipt. Base of tibiae and first joint of tarsi banded with black. Expanse f inch. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. British Museum. |