1877.] ANDAMAN AND NICODAR ISLANDS. 603 



Tribe Noctues. 

 Fara. Leucanid^. 

 Leucania costalis, n. sp. (Plate LIX. fig. 11.) 



Male and female. Upperside cream-colour : fore wing sparsely 

 irrorated with minute brown scales, crossed by two median indistinct 

 blackish sinuous lines ; a pale brown streak from base extending 

 below and before the end of the cell, giving the appearance of a 

 basal costal band ; two spots within the cell, the inner largest ; 

 a marginal row of black dots : hind wing pale ochreous brown exter- 

 nally ; veins darker. Underside paler ; fore wing dusky brown in 

 the middle ; a marginal row of black dots on both wings. Palpi and 

 legs speckled with black. 



Expanse 1-| inch. 



S. Andamans. In coll. F. Moore. 



This species also occurs at Darjiling and Malabar. 



Fam. Glottulid^e. 



Hamadasa, n. g. 



Fore wing short, broad, costa slightly convex, apex truncated, 

 exterior margin oblique hindward, posterior margin slightly lobed 

 towards the base ; costal vein short, ending at half the length of 

 costa ; cell broad ; subcostal vein six-branched, first and second 

 branches arising close together a little beyond half length of the cell, 

 the third and sixth at end of cell, the third terminating before the 

 apex, the fourth and fifth arising below from near the base of third 

 and terminating at and below the apex, the sixth running parallel 

 below the fifth ; median vein three-branched, branches at equal dis- 

 tances from end of the cell, each recurved ; discocellulars of equal 

 length ; one radial, slightly recurved ; submedian vein running 

 parallel and close to median and lower branch, terminating on exte- 

 rior margin considerably above posterior angle ; internal vein straight, 

 terminating above the angle. Hind wing trigonal, short, exterior 

 margin produced in the middle ; abdominal margin straight ; cell 

 short ; subcostal vein three-branched, first branch arising from half 

 the length of the cell, second and third starting together at end of 

 the cell ; median vein three-branched, lower branch arising from au 

 angle before end of the cell, second and third together at base from 

 end of cell ; upper discocellular long, lower short ; one radial ; sub- 

 median vein straight. Antennae very long, filiform. Palpi sliort, 

 clothed with short adpressed scales ; second joint short, conical, 

 ascending. Body moderately stout ; abdomen tapering towards the 

 apex, extending beyond hind wing. Legs long ; tibia clothed above 

 with longish hair ; mid and hind tibiae spurred. 



Ramadasa pavo. (Plate LIX. fig. 8.) 



Chasmina pavo. Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. part ix. p. 147. 



S. Andamans. In coll. British Museum aud F. Moore. 



