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on the costa above end of the cell, a larger sometimes intlentate spot within end of 

 the cell, three discal spots outside the cell, the upper one being very slender, and an 

 elongated creamy-white streak extending between the lower median and submedian 

 vein, below which is a continuous similar coloured broader streak, both streaks beiuo- 

 clothed with very numerous well-separated slightly raised narrow round-tipt scales, 

 and with regularly alternating very narrow scales, and a few thread-like scales, the 

 extreme posterior border being glossy cinereous. Eindwing with a small bluish- 

 white cell spot, a curved discal series of six smaller spots, the upper one being 

 slender and sometimes obsolete, three or four minute basal white spots, and an 

 obsolescent marginal row of minute spots. 



Female, Upperside lighter coloured, the outer borders more broadly paler 

 brown. Forewing with three more or less obsolescent small white subapical spots, an 

 oval costal spot above end of the cell, a minute dot within end of the cell, and a 

 small spot beyond between the upper and middle medians. Hindwing with the costal 

 border brownish-white, and a small whitish spot between the subcostals. Underside 

 with similarly disposed spots on both wings as in male, the subapical spots more 

 prominent, the discal spots somewhat larger, and the marginal series on the hind- 

 wing incomplete and less distinct ; on the forewing the creamy-white streak is 

 narrower and the posterior border paler. Body dark brown ; thorax in front and 

 beneath, head, palpi, and legs black, white spotted ; abdomen beneath with white 

 segmental bands. 



Expanse, $ 3^ to 3|, ? 3^ inches. 



Habitat. — Great Nicobar, Car Nicobar; Pulo Kondul. 



The similarity of this species to Grastia Camorta, its Nicobarian ally, is very 

 striking. The males of the latter species may, however, be readily distinguished 

 from it by the presence of the well-defined sexual mark between the lower median 

 and submedian vein on the forewing, this wing also having the posterior margin 

 more broadly convex. The colour of the male G. Gamorta is also less purpurescent 

 above and below, and in the female the colour is cinnamoneous-brown with distinctly 

 paler and bi-oader outer borders. 



Though this species does not well fit into the genus Menama, it is certainly not 

 a Vadebra, in which it had been placed in my monograph (I.e. p. 261) previous to 

 having seen specimens. It differs from the other species of Menama in the absence 

 of the characteristic blue gloss on the forewings and the two marginal rows of 

 whitish spots on the hindwings. 



Indo-Malayan allied Species of Menama. — M. Buxtoni (Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, 

 265) ; with violet-brown forewing washed with violet-blue. Habitat. Sumatra. 

 M. Mouhoti (Moore, id. 265, pi. 31, fig. 6, ^); ochreous brown; forewing slightly 

 tinged with olivaceous. Habitat. Cambodia. — M.Lorza (M. id. 265, pi. 31, fig. 5, S) ; 



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