187".] ANUAMVN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS. 583 



Melanitis leda, Linn. S. N. i. 2. p. ~'i (17G7). 

 S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



Mycalesis medus, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 488 (1775). 

 Nicobars (Kamorta), April, Meldola. 



Mycalesis drusia. Cram. Pap. Exot. i. pi. 81. f. C, D. 



S. .\ndamans (Port Blair); Nicobars (Kamorta), April, 3/eWo/a. 



Mycalests samba, Moore, Cat)\l. Lep. E.I. C. i. p. 233. 

 S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



Mycalesis radza, n. sp. (Plate LVIII. fig. !.) 



Male. Upperside dark brown ; fore wing with a narrow, obliqne, 

 subapical white band, below which is a large black ocellus with 

 ochreous outer ring and a white central spot ; hind wing with a smaller 

 and less distinct ocellus near middle of outer margin. Underside 

 brown ; fore wing with a more prominent white oblique band and 

 lower ocellus ; two small geminate ocelli between the white band 

 and apex; hind wing with an outer series of seven prominent ocelli 

 enclosed within a narrow purple wavy line, the three upper and 

 seventh ocelli small, fourth and sixth larger, the fifth largest. 

 Nearest allied to M. anuxias. 



Expanse If inch. 



S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. 11. Driice. 



Elymnias cottonis {Melanitis cot.), Hewitson, Ann. N. H. 

 1874, xiv. p. ;-i58. 



S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



Fam. MoRPHiD^. 



.\mathusia phidippus, Linn. S. N. i. 2. p. 7.o2 ; Cram. Pap. 

 Exot. i. pi. 69. f. A, B. 



S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



DiscopHORA CELiNDE, StoU, Suppl. Cram. Pap. Exot. pi. 37. 

 f. 1 (1790). 



S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



Fam. Nymphaltd.i?. 



Cethosia nicobarica, Felder. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. 1852, 

 p. 484; Novara-Reise, Lep. iii. pi. 48. f. 7,S,6- 



Female. Blacker than the male ; fore wing with the lower basal 

 portion and interspaces in cell dark greenish grey ; subapical marks 

 broader, the lower dentate mark formed into a streak ; hind wing 

 with the basal portion pale greenish grey. Underside greenish brown 

 (in the male dull vermilion), interspaces of basal streaks greenish 

 (in the male bluish); black median transverse zigzag markings and 



