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and the discal bent line brown, with bluish-grey speckles; 

 cilia of both wings yellowish brown, cilia at the anal angle of 

 hind wing white, interlined with deep black, the inner white 

 line running in the cilia halfway up the wing. 



Expanse of wings lfV inch. 



South Andamans. Two examples. 



Allied to R. dieneces, Hewitson, which it much resembles, 

 but can easily be distinguished by the entire absence of the 

 broad costal band of the hind wins: above. 



3. Curetis nicobarica, n. sp. 



c?. Upperside bright dark coppery red, thickly suffused 

 with blackish brown at the base. Fore wing with a blackish- 

 brown marginal border, even on the costa to the end of the 

 cell, filling the costal space, spreading slightly over the sub- 

 costal vein, broad at the apex, its inner margin running 

 irregularly across from the top end of the cell towards the 

 margin on the third median branch a little beyond its middle, 

 from which the band runs down on to the hinder margin as 

 broadly as on the costa, slightly curved in its centre. Hind 

 wing with a broad costal and a narrower marginal uniform 

 brown border, the latter about half as broad as the marginal 

 border of the fore wing, its inner margin irregular. 



Underside dull pure white, markings almost obsolete ; costa 

 of hind wing pale flesh-colour. 



? . Dark reddish brown. Upperside : fore wing with a 

 slight suffusion of pinkish colour in its centre ; hind wing with 

 a curved, subapical, large whitish patch. 



Underside dull pure white, markings nearly obsolete. 



Expanse of wings, <$ l^j, $ l-^ to 1$> inch. 



Nicobar Islands. Several pairs. 



Allied to 0. thetys, Drury, and to C. arcuata, Moore, but 

 differs from both in its broader and differently shaped blackish- 

 brown border in the male, and differs altogether in the colora- 

 tion and appearance in the female, being brown instead of 

 white. 



Note. — The manuscript descriptions of these new species 

 have been ready for publication for some time, but were kept 

 back awaiting the publication of Mr. de Niceville's third 

 volume of the ' Butterflies of India ; ' but I find that none of 

 them are included in that excellent work. 



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