1877.] ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS. 61 1 



dark brown ; palpi dark chocolate-brown, apical joint pale testaceous ; 

 antennae brown. 



Expanse If^^ inch. 



S. Andamans. In coll. British Museum. 



Fam. Platydid^. 



Episparis varialis, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 7 



(1858). 



E. signata, Walker, /. c. Suppl. p. 1032. 

 S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



Fam. Remigiid^. 



Remigia archest a, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 273. f. F, G, ? . 



P. virbia. Cram. I. c. f. H. 



R. bifasciata. Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. IVI. Suppl. p. 1014. 



S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



Remigia gregalis, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 320. 

 S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



Fam. Thermesiid^. 

 Sympis turbida, n. sp. 



Upperside dark brown, suffused with purplish grey at the base, 

 crossed by apparently four equidistant indistinct darker sinuous lines 

 on the fore wing, and one across the middle of hind wing ; a small 

 blackish spot at lower end of cell on the fore wing. Underside dull 

 brown, outer sinuous line slightly more prominent; hind wing with a 

 submarginal series of pale points, one on each vein. 



Expanse 1|^ inch. 



S. Andamans. In coll. F. Moore. 



Thermesia reticulata, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. Suppl. 

 p. 1062. 



Drepanodes scitaria, Walker, I. c. Geom. p. 1488. 

 S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



AzAziA RtTBRiCANS, Boisduval, Walk. Cat. Lep. B. M. iv. 

 p. 1576. 



S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



Mestleta duplexa, n. sp. (Plate LX. fig. 5.) 



Upperside ochreous ; a straight pale purplish-tinted band with 

 ochreous-brown borders extending from apex to above anal angle ; 

 fore wing crossed by a subbasal and median sinuous indistinct lines ; 

 anterior border of hind wing pale yellow. 



Underside much paler, markings nearly obsolete. 



Expanse f inch. 



S. Andamans. In coll. F. Moore. 



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