1877.] t ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS. 601 



margins and cilia of both wings fawn-colour. Legs white, fore and 

 mid legs with black bands. Palpi pale brown, tipped with black. 



Expanse Ig inch. 



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



Caviria cygna, n. sp. 



Female white : fore wing silky white, with indistinctly apparent 

 raised oblique bands : hind wing not silky. Palpi and fore legs ochry 

 yellow, middle and hind tarsi pale ochry yellow. 



Expanse If inch. 



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



L^LiA VENOSA, n. sp. (Plate LIX. fig. \, d .) 



Male. Upperside pale ochreous brown. Veins of fore wing and 

 cilia of both wings ochreous white. Front of thorax, head, palpi, 

 and abdomen ochreous yellow ; thorax above greyish. Underside 

 paler. 



Expanse If inch. 



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



EUPROCTIS DISCINOTA, H. Sp. 



Upperside bright ochry yellow: fore wing with two median 

 transverse dark chestnut- brown speckled bands, the outer band 

 recurved and crossed by pale veins ; a black spot at end of cell. 

 Underside paler, both wings with an indistinct darker ochry trans- 

 verse fascia, and a black spot at the end of the cell. 



Expanse If inch. 



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



Earn. PsYCHiDiE. 



Mahasena, n. g. 

 Fore wing elongated, narrow, costa straight, apex rounded, exte- 

 rior margin oblique, posterior margin convex in the middle ; costal 

 vein moderately stout ; subcostal slender, four-branched, first and 

 second branches arising before end of the cell, third at end of the 

 cell, fourth from below the third at two thirds its length and termi- 

 nating below the apex ; discoidal cell broad at its end ; upper disco- 

 cellular vein long, inwardly oblique and bent outward at its middle ; 

 lower discocellular short, outwardly oblique, and emitting within the 

 cell a discoidal veinlet at each end, which are joined together at two 

 thirds their lens,th, the end extending inwards towards base of the 

 cell ; upper radial arising from end of the cell, lower radial from 

 angle of upper discocellular, both nearly straight ; median vein mo- 

 derately stout, short and twice bent at its end, four-branched, the 

 two lower arising from the angles at its end, the third from end of 

 the cell, and fourth at one third from base of the latter ; submedian 

 curved and bent below end of the cell, and thence extending straight 

 to posterior angle, emitting a lower branch or internal veinlet at the 

 angle, the lower branch being forked at half its length and extending 

 to near base of the wing. Hind wing short, broad, trigonal, anterior 



