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outer margin of the liiiidwing, apart from the totally difterent underside, allows one 

 easily to distinguish it. 



Female. Upperside, both wings brownish-fuscous. Hindwing with the anal 

 border and tail whitish, a large spot at the base of which and the anal lobe blackish. 

 Underside, both wings whitish. Forewing with a single ochreous-fulvous fascia beyond 

 the disc catenulately sinuous. Hindioing with a slender interrupted flexuous striga 

 beyond the disc, with two spots at the base of the tail powdered with blue, and the 

 anal appendage deepest black. This stands very close to M. jolcus, Felder, from 

 Amboina, but a careful comparison sufficiently establishes the difference of the two 

 forms. The fact that the only known specimens of M. Isabella and areca are all males, 

 while those of M. Jolcus and kamorla are females, confirms me in the supposition that 

 here merely the sexes of two species may lie before us. The construction of the palpi 

 in M. sugriva, Isabella and areca on the one hand, and in jolcus and kamorta on the 

 other hand, differs much, such as we see also in both sexes of other allied species. The 

 last joint of the palpi of the female is more than twice as long as in the male. That 

 M. areca and kamorta, both of them, differ from M. Isabella and jolcus in the want of 

 the first fascia on the underside of the forewing, and the spots on the basal half of the 

 same side of the hindwing, may speak in favour of the foregoing supposition. 

 (Felder.) 



Expanse of wings, $ l-^ inches. 



Habitat. — Nikobar Islands. 



Distribution. — A common species in the Nikobars, occurring in Kamorta, 

 Nankowri, Kar Nikobar, Little Nikobar, and Great Nikobar ; this species is quite 

 distinct from B. kamorta, Felder, of which there are both sexes in the B. M. ; we 

 figure Felder's type male, which is in fine condition ; we have not been able to obtain a 

 female. 



BINDAHARA INES, nov. 

 Plate 710, figs. 3, (J , 3a, ? , 3b, <J . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside black. Forewing unmarked. Hindiciug with some 

 greyish-ochreous at the anal angle ; tail greyish-ochreous ; anal lobe white, with an 

 indistinct grey spot in it, much as in areca, but the ochreous space is more limited and 

 darker in colour, and the short black anteciliary line in that species is wanting. 

 Underside chocolate-brown, markings darker brown, with very fine pale edgings. 

 Forewing with a short narrow basal streak, a broad outwardly curved band from near 

 the costa to the sub-median vein, a broad discal band with irregular marsfins, from the 

 costa to the same vein, narrowing hindwards from its middle almost to a point ; a 

 sub-marginal series of spots and indications of a pale series close to the margin. 

 Hindwing with three sub-costal spots in a line, two small spots near each other, sub- 



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