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Show 616 MR. F. MOORE ON THE LEPIDOPTERA OF THE [Julie 19, COPTOBASIS LUNALIS, Guen. Delt. et Pyr. p. 352. Botys Thyasalis, Walk. Catal. Lep. B. M . xviii. p. 734. S. Andamans (Port Blair). COPTOBASIS CUPREALIS, n. sp. (Plate LX. fig. 13.) Upperside bright coppery-brown ; fore wing with three equidistant transverse black narrow bands ; hind wing with two transverse bands, the outer one short, a marginal and cilial black line. Underside paler, cinereous brown at base ; transverse lines indistinct. Base of palpi white. Legs cinereous, fore and mid tibiae with black bands. Expanse 1 inch. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. F. Moore. PHYSEMATIA CONCORDALIS, Lederer, Wien. ent. Monat. vii. p. 447, pl. 17. f. 14 (1863). Nicobars. DICHOCROSIS FRENATALIS, Lederer, Wien. ent. Monat. viii. p. 447, pl. 17- f. 15 (1863). Nicobars. Fam. H Y D R O C A M P I D ^ E. OLIGOSTIGMA SEXPUNCTALIS, n. sp. (Plate L X . fig. 12.) Male. Fore wing ochry-yellow, with a black line on base of costa, a triangular spot bordered with silver beyond, two oblique subapical short bands from the apex, both lined within with silver, and a prominent silver streak with indistinct blackish lower border beneath the cell: hind wing transparent white at base, yellow at apex, a marginal quadrate black spot adorned with varied metallic scales, the cilia adjoining marked with six black spots with white interspaces ; a short indistinct black-speckled streak bordered with silver above the black spot. Body pale ochreous, whitish beneath. Antennae brown. Legs ochreous, streaked with brown. Expanse f inch. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. F. Moore. OLIGOSTIGMA PARVALIS, n. sp. White : fore wing with a golden-yellow band on the costa, exterior, and hind borders, and short subapical bands ; the band on exterior border with black margins : hind wing with two golden-yellow bands, each black-margined; a black spot on outer band below the apex. Expanse f inch. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. F. Moore. Fam. SICULID.E. R H O D O N E U R A RETICULALIS, n. sp. Silvery white, veins of fore wing blackish. Upperside with blackish hexagonal-shaped reticulations; many of the spaces on fore wing |