1S77.] ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS. 593 



1 Axion, Feld. 



S. Andamans (Port Blair) . 



. Papilio antiphates. Cram. Pap. Exot. i. pi. 72, f. A, B. 

 S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



Fam. Hesperid.e. 

 IsMENE CHROMus, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 284, f. E (1782). 

 S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



IsMENE malayana, Felder, Wien. eat. Mouat. iv. p. 401 (1800) 

 Novara-Reise, Lep. iii. pi. 72. f. 15. ^ K^-ow), 



S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



Tagiades alica, n. sp. (Plate LVIII. fig. 1 1, (^ .) 



Male. Allied to T. obscurus, Mabille, from' Java, but of a 

 blacker colour the fore wing being more pointed, the hind wing 

 more produced at the anal angle. Markings above similar ; on 

 the underside the hind wing has more prominent black discal 

 marks and a much broader black border on the grey portion of 

 the outer margin. o j i- 



Expanse li inch. 



S. Andamaus (Port Blair). In coll. F. Moore. 



p. 483 asS)'"'"''''''''' ^^^''^^' ^'^' ^^^^''' ^''^- ^°«l--l^ot. Ges. 

 Nicobars (Pulo Milu). 



Plesioneura alysos, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 789. 

 S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



Hesperia cahira, n. sp. (Plate LVIII. fig. 8.) 



Male and female. Upperside dark rufous-brown, suffused with olive- 

 brown at the base. Male. Fore wing with two small yellow spots at 

 end of the cell, two on the disk, and two very small spots before the 

 apex. Female with a series of three small spots before the apex and 

 another spot of the same size between them and the two on the disk : 

 cUia ot hind wmg yellowish cinereous. 



Underside of mkle rufous-brown ; female olive-brown, with a pale 

 greyish streak on middle of hind margin. ^ 



Expanse, cJ If, ? If inch. 



S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. F. Moore. 



Near to ZT. oceia, Hewits. ; differs in the male above in the ab- 

 sence of the basal tuft of hairs on the hind wing, and beneath also in 

 the absence of the prominent and large white patch and its central 

 spot on the fore wing. 



Hesperia oceia, Hewits. Desc. Hesp. p. 31 (1868). 

 S. Andamans (Port Blair). 

 Proc. Zool. Soc— 1877, No. XXXVIII. 38 



