1877.] ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS. 59!) 



Expanse 2g inches. 



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

 Moore. 



Fam. Callidulid.e. 

 Cleosiris catamita, Geyer, Hiibn. Zutr. f. 653, 654. 

 S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



Fam. Nyctemerid.e. 

 Nyctemera lacticinia, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 128. f. E. 

 S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



PiTASILA, n. g. 



Fore wing short, rather broad, costa slightly arched, apex angled, 

 outer margin short, oblique, hind margin straiglit ; subcostal vein 

 five-I)ranched, third, fourth, and fifth on a short foot-stalk from end 

 of cell ; first and third discocellulars very short, second bent inward ; 

 one radial from lower angle of upper discocellular; median vein four- 

 branched, first and second starting from angles of lower discocellular, 

 third contiguous, fourth at half length of cell ; one submedian. Hind 

 wing trigonal, apex rounded, exterior margin convex in the middle ; 

 subcostal vein two-branched, disposed as in fore wing ; one subme- 

 dian. Body short, attenuate in male. Antenna; slender, bipecti- 

 nated in male to tip, minutely pectinated in female. Palpi porrect, 

 third joint cylindrical. Legs naked. 



PiTASILA LEucospiLOTA, n. sp. (Plate LIX. fig. 7) 



Male and female. Fore wing with a series of four white spots 

 from base of costa, the third largest, also two within the cell, three 

 larger spots below the cell and confluent on hind margin, the lower 

 basal enclosing a black spot, and the third two spots, one above the 

 other in male, confluent in female j two spots also before the apex : 

 hind wing with a broad black marginal band, on which are two small 

 white spots, one near angle, the other on middle of margin ; a small 

 black spot at upper end of cell and two above it on margin ; cilia 

 white, at apical angle of hind wing. Underside as above. Head and 

 thorax yellow ; abdomen white, with yellow tip ; black spots on head 

 and thorax, also dorsal and lateral row on abdomen ; antennas black ; 

 legs white, streaked with black. 



Expanse, c? 1|, $ 2 inches. 



S. Andamans (Port Blair), In coll. Brit. Mus. and F. Moore. 



Allied to P. maculosum, Feld. Nov.-Reise, pi. 103. f 2, to P. va- 

 riolosa, Feld. ib. pi. 129. f. 15, and also to P. varians. Walk. 



Fam. Euschemid.e. 



EUSCHEMA ANDAMANA, U. Sp. 



Male and female. Upperside purple-black, both wings with the 

 outer margin and discal spots darker purple-black ; fore wing with a 

 broad subbasal bright yellow band, which is irregularly margined and 



