598 MR. F. MOORE ON THE LEPIDOPTERA OF THE [JunC 19, 



Fam. Hypsid^. 



Peridrome orbicularis, Walk. Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. ii. p. 

 445 (1854). 



Aganopis subquadrata, H.-Sclia£f. Lep. Sp. Nov. p. 70, f. 501 

 (1856). 



S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



EuPLOCiA MEMBLiARiA, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 269. f. C, D. 

 S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



Damalis alciphron. Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 133. f. E, 



S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



Hypsa andamana, n. sp. (Plate LIX. fig. 5.) 



Allied to //. egens from N. India. 



Upperside much brighter ochreous : fore wing with a series of six 

 basal black spots, two of which are within the cell ; prominent 

 ochreous-brown streaks between the veins, which form two partly 

 confluent, transverse, irregular, median and outer bands. Under- 

 side — fore wing with a broad lunular black spot at end, and a large 

 round spot in the middle of the cell ; the hind wing has a small 

 black spot at end of the cell ou upper discocellular, and a small 

 lunular spot above the end of the cell. 



Expanse 2^ inches. 



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



Hypsa venalba, n. sp. 



Female. Upperside cinereous-black ; base of fore wing and ab- 

 domen ochreous-yellow : fore wing with a broad white longitudinal 

 diluted streak ; some black spots at the base ; veins narrowly lined 

 with white to near outer margin ; a white spot at upper end of the 

 cell : hind wing white, with a broad black marginal band, and 

 narrow spot at end of the cell ; cilia white. Thorax with black 

 spot on tegulse, streak down middle, and a dorsal and lateral row of 

 spots on abdomen. Antennae black. Palpi ochry-yellow, first and 

 second joints with a spot on outer side, and the entire third joint 

 black. Legs black, streaked with grey. 



Expanse 2j'q inches. 



S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. British Museum. 



This species is nearest allied to H. dama. 



Philona cinerascens, n. sp. (Plate LIX. fig. 6) 

 Differs from P. inops in the fore wing being of a much darker 

 cinereous colour, and the veins more prominently lined with white ; 

 the hind wing is white, the marginal band greyish-black and broader, 

 and continued broadly along anterior margin on both upper and 

 undersides ; the fore wing beneath and the band on the hind wing 

 are very dark fuliginous black, with a blacker median curved streak 

 on fore wing, the space beneath the streak and the lower basal space 

 of hind wing being white. 



