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brown dentated-tipt scales, numerous brown and wlntisb round-tipt scales and a few 

 interspersed very slender white scales, the posterior border being glossy cinereous 

 and thickly clothed with raised lance-pointed scales, and from below the submedian 

 to extreme margin with widely-separated narrow scales with equal-pointed ends 

 Hindwing also with a small white cell spot and five discal spots. Body dark brown ; 

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

 beneath with slight whitish segmental bands. Female. — Paler, and of a decided olives- 

 cent tint. Upper and underside marked similar to the male, the spots somewhat 

 larger and more prominent, those of the submarginal row on the hindwing being 

 longer. Forewing beneath with an elongated violet-white streak between the lower 

 median and submedian vein, and a broad whitish posterior border. 



Expanse, 3 to 3f inches. 



Habitat. — Nicobars. 



Occurs only in the Nicobars, where it appears to be common. Specimens 

 examined from Kar Nicobar and Camorta. 



CRASTIA SCHERZERI (Plate 28, fig. 1, la, b, <?)• 

 Euplcea Scherzeri, Welder, Verb. Zool. Bot. Gesellesch. Wien. xii, p. 479 (1862) ; id. Reise Novara, Lep. 



ii. p. 335 (1867). Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 12 (1880). Marshall and De Niceville, Butt, of 



India, i. p. 85 (1882). 

 Betanga Scherzeri, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 273. 



Imago. — "Male. Upperside deep fuscous, much paler and brownish on the 

 exterior margin. Foreiving with a single short velvety streak in the interior. 

 Underside. Both wings concolorous, but a little paler. Foreiving with two internal 

 whitish streaks, the upper one narrow, linear ; a spot and two discal dots, a spot 

 below the middle of the costa, and two subapical, bluish-white. Hivdwing with five 

 very small discal spots, one of which is in the cell, bluish-white " (Pelder). 



Expanse, 3f inches. 



Habitat. — Ceylon (Felder). 



This species, of which at present, we only know the type specimen described by 

 Dr. Felder, now in the Zoological Museum at Vienna, and of which I am indebted to 

 the kindness of Dr. A. F. Rogenhofer, the Custodian of the Vienna Museum, for a 

 coloured drawing, which is reproduced on our Plate 28, figs. 1, la. Its habitat, as 

 given by Dr. Felder, is stated to be Ceylon. It is extremely near the next species 

 (G. Camorta), and may possibly be identical with it. From G. Camorta it diifers 

 in its more uniform colour on the upperside, and in the absence of the pale iri- 

 descent upper discoidal patch on the hindwing. The underside also is more uniformly 

 coloured, the forewing having two subapical small white spots, and the hindwing a 

 less number of discal spots. The description of this species, as given in the " Lep. 



