EUPLCEIN.E. 93 



KARADIRA ANDAMANENSIS (Plate 30, fig. 1, la, b, c, $ ^ ). 



Euploea Andamanensis, Ai'k.insoUj'PxoQ,. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1873, p. 736, pi. 63, fig. 2, ^. Butler, 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. xiv. p. 300. Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1877, p. 582. Wood-Mason, 

 Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 1880, p. 226 ; id. 1881, p. 244. Marshall and De Niceville, Butt, of 

 India, i. p. 84 (1882). 



Karadira Andamanensis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 281. 



Imago. — Male and female. Pale olivescent fuligiuous-brown, darkest externally. 

 Male. Upperside. Forewing paler on posterior border, with a prominent white, 

 costal spot above end of the cell, and sometimes two smaller spots between the 

 second and third subcostals, a larger spot within lower end of the cell, and two on 

 the disc between the median veinlets ; a submarginal recurved row of spots, of 

 which the three lower are much the largest and either quadrate and sometimes 

 touching the discal spots, or with their outer ends convex, or broadly oval in shape, 

 the lowest spot also sometimes being divided into two; the marginal row of spots 

 are small and narrowly oval, and do not extend to the apex; a short sexual mark 

 between the lower median and submedian vein, clothed with widely separated small 

 narrow ovate slightly bidentate-tipt scales. Hindwing with a submarginal row 

 of white oval spots, and a marginal row of smaller spots ; costal border broadly 

 glossy brownish-cinereous. Cilia alternated with white. Underside somewhat paler ; 

 both wings with white spots as on upperside. Forewing also with a very slender discal 

 spot between the upper median veinlet and the radial ; posterior border broadly 

 glossy cinereous, the sexual mark clothed with densely packed short narrow ovate 

 point-tipt scales. Hindwing also with a violet-white spot within end of the cell, and 

 a discal series of five or six smaller spots ; some white dots at base of the wing. 

 Female. Upperside as in male, except that the forewing has the posterior margin 

 straight instead of being convex, and with an additional lower discal narrow white 

 spot. On the hindwing the small cell spot and discal spots of the underside are 

 slightly apparent. Underside as in male. Body dark fuliginous-brown ; thorax in 

 front and beneath, head, and palpi black, spotted with white ; legs black, the femora 

 being white ; abdomen beneath with broad whitish segmental bands. 



Expanse, 3 to 3^ inches. 



Habitai'. — Andaman Isles. 



Obtained " commonly at Port Blair from March to August, by Col. T. Cadell, 



Chief Commissioner of the Andamans, and by the late Mr. F. A. De Roepstorff " 



(Butt, of India, i. 84). 



Genus PENOA. 



Euplcea {Sect. D, part), Distant, Eliop. Malayana, p. 32 (1882). 



Euplcea {Group 6, Sect. C and D), Marshall and De Niceville, Butt, of India, &c., p. 80 (1882). 

 Penoa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 274. 

 Imago.— Male. Forewing broad, costa arched, apex and posterior angle rounded. 



