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hind wing tlie outer pale dentate lunular line is nearer the margin. 

 On the underside the black lunular bands are more curved and wider 

 apart, the outer band being nearer the margin. From H.feniseca 

 it may be distinguished by its longer fore wings. 



Expanse 3| inches. 



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



Hamodes discistriga, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 78. 

 S, Andamans (Port Blair). 



Entomogramma fautrix, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 204 ; Feld. Nov.- 

 Reise, Lep. iv. pi. 115. f. 5. 



S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



Fam. Ophiusid.e. 

 Lagoptera honesta, Hiibn. Esot. Schmett. f. 1, 2. 

 S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



Lagoptera coronata, Fabr. Ent. Syst, p. 596. uo. 24, 



L. leonina, Fabr. ib. no. 25. 



L. magica, Hiibn. Exot. Schmett. f. 535. 



S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



AcH^A MELiCERTA, Drury, Ins. i. pi. 23. 

 A. tigrina, Fabr. Spec. Ins. no. 52. 

 S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



AcH^A NUBiFERA, n. sp. (Plate LIX. fig. 9, 6 ■) 



Male and female. Upperside — fore wing vinous brown, crossed bv 

 an indistinct subbasal black wavy line and a discal recurved transverse 

 sinuous line with pale lunular outer border ; the disk in the male 

 clouded with dark fuliginous brown : hind wing dark cinereous brown, 

 crossed by a narrow white curved median band ; a short ochreous 

 streak before anal angle, a pale spot on middle of hind margin, and 

 another at anterior angle. Thorax vinous brown ; abdomen cine- 

 reous brown, anal tuft ochreous. Underside cinereous brown ; disk 

 of fore wing dark fuliginous brown ; hind wing with a narrow streak 

 at end of the cell, a transverse broad discal and narrow inner band 

 of dark cinereous brown ; palpi cinereous brown ; legs cinereous 

 brown above, femora and tibiae ochreous beneath. 



Expanse 2g inches. 



S. Andamans. In coll. F. Moore. 



Ophiusa arcuata, n. sp. 



Fore wing vinous greyish brown, with a broad dark brown basal 

 band occupying one third of the wing, the band partly crossed near 

 the base by a short pale streak, and its border slightly convex at the 

 middle ; a transverse discal band, broadest on the costa, its outer 

 border produced to a point before the apex and then incurved to the 



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