1877.] ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS. 615 



Expanse, c? |, $ 1 iuch. 



S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



Has also been taken iu Sikkim. In coll. F. Moore. 



Fam. AsopiD^. 



Samea cuprinalis, u. sp. 



Male pale purplish-yellow, diaphanous ; cilia whitish, alternated 

 with brown ; fore wing with two cupreous-brown spots in the cell, 

 beneath which are two narrow wavy lines, a broad outer marginal 

 band bordered by a narrow wavy inner Hue ; hind wing with a pale- 

 centred brown spot at end of cell and a narrow line beneath, a broad 

 marginal band and inner wavy bordered line. Body purplish- 

 yellow, brown-speckled ; anal tuft white, autennse pale brown. Legs 

 pale-yellowish, fore legs and middle femora and tibiae with a black 

 spot at the joints. 



Expanse f inch. 



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



Samea purpurascens, n. sp. 



Male. Upper and underside very pale purplish grey ; fore wing 

 with two blackish-bordered pearly white spots within the cell, and a 

 short transverse series of smaller contiguous spots before the apex ; 

 two indistinct median transverse dusky- brown bands, which also cross 

 the hind wings ; outer edges of wings brov/n. Legs whitish, banded 

 with brown. 



Expanse ^^ inch. 



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



ASOPIA LIMBOLALIS, U. Sp. 



TJpperside silky gamboge-yellow ; fore wing with four and hind 

 wing with two short oblique transverse ochry-red bands ; both 

 wings with a broad golden-brown pale-bordered marginal band. 

 Cilia of fore wing yellow, of hind wing brown, bordered by a blackish 

 marginal line. Body ochry- brown above, beneath and legs 

 yellowish-white. Palpi ochry-yellow. Undei'side pale silky-yellow 

 with broad golden-brown band. 



Expanse j^ inch. 



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



Leucinodes orbonalis, Guen. Delt. et Pyr. p. 223 (1854). 

 S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



Coptobasis ANDAMAN alis, u. sp. (Plate LX. fig. 14.) 



Allied to Cop. cemealis. Walk. 



Glossy cupreous-brown ; fore wing with a pale yellowish spot at 

 end of the cell, an oval spot beyond, and a smaller one beneatli them ; 

 hind wing with two yellow median transverse spots. Cilia cinereous. 

 Body above brown, beneath whitish. Palpi black tipt. Base of 

 tibiae and first joint of tarsi banded with black. 



Expanse \ inch. 



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



