608 MR. F. MOORE ON THE LEPIDOPTERA OF THE [JuilC 19, 



Ophideres hypermnestra. Cram. Pap, Exot. iv. pi. 323. f. A, B. 

 S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



Phyllodes consobrina, Westw. Cabinet Orient. Ent. pi. 28. 

 f. 2. 



P. perspicillator, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 120. 

 S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



Potamophora manlia, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. pi. 92. f. A. 

 S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



Fam. Erebid^. 

 Tavia substruens, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1276. 

 S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



Argiva hieroglyphica, Drury, 111. Exot. Ins. ii. pi. 2. f. 1. 

 S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



Nyctipao truncata, n. sp. 



Male. Allied to N. obliterans, but differs in being smaller, the tore 

 wing having the veins pale-streaked ; an indistinct darker subapical 

 recurved streak ; the retort mark much smaller, compressed laterally 

 and concave on its outer border, and the recurved streak beneath it 

 not apparent ; the hind wing is much smaller, shorter, and less pro- 

 duced at the apex. 



Expanse 3^ inches. 



S. Andamans. In coll. British Museum. 



Nyctipao crepuscularis, Linn. S. N. 281 1, 13 ; Clerck, Icones, 

 pi. 53. f. 1, 4. 



S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



Fam. OmmatophoridjE. 



Speiredonia retrahens. Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. 

 p. 1294. 



S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



Speiredonia conspicua, Feld. Nov.-Reise, Lep. iv. pi. 113. 

 f. 7. 



S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



Fam. HypopVrid^. 

 Spirama cohjerens. Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1321, $ . 

 S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



HypoPyra persimilis, n, sp. 



Similar to H. ossigera, but differs on the upperside in the fore 

 wing having a distinct brown fascia from the apex to middle of hind 

 margin, and the marginal white lunular band prominent ; in the 



