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64i. Tagiades RAVI, Moore. 

 Nankowri, Kamorfca, and Katschall. 



65. ISMENE EXCLAMATIONIS, Fabl*. 



One female from Kamorta. 



QQ. IsMENE MALAYANA, Felder. 



Two females from Kamorta, and one from Katschall without the 

 small semitransparent yellow discal speck between the two posterior branches 

 of the median vein. 



67. Hespeeia colaca, Moore. 

 Kamorta, Nankowri, Katschall, and Trinkut, 



68. Hespeeia agna, Moore. 

 Kamorta [Moore) and Katschall.* 



69. Hespeeia kaesana, var. satijeata. 



Hesperia karsana, Moore, Proc, Zool. Soc, Lond. 1874, p. 576, 3 $,pl. Ixvii, 

 %. 6. 



Much darker and without a trace^of spots on the upperside. 

 One female from Kamorta ; and Kulu, N. W. Himalayas. 



70. Pamphila palmaeum, Moore. 

 Nankowri and Katschall. 



71. Telegonus thtesis, Fabr. 

 Probably from Nankowri. 



Although upwards of one thousand specimens, the product of a whole 

 year's collecting carried on by Mr. de Roepstorff in conjunction with the 

 native collectors whom Col. Cadell, Chief Commissioner of the Andaman 

 and Nicobars, had so courteously placed at our disposal, have been examined 

 since our first little list of Nicobar Butterflies was published in this Jour- 

 nal, we have but seven fresh species to add to that list. The meagreness 

 of this result appears to be entirely due to the exceptional difficulties that 

 beset the path of the collector of zoological specimens at the Nicobars, 

 — difficulties arising partly from the unhealthiness of the climate, and partly 

 from the visits of the settlement-officers to the more distant and produc- 

 tive islands, such as Katschall, Teressa, and Great Nicobar, being necessarily 

 so few and of such short duration, but chiefly no doubt from the almost 

 complete absence of clearings and of paths through the dense and often 

 impenetrable forests, and the consequent uniform distribution of attractive 

 flowering plants and anthophilous insects, — and not to the poverty of 

 the fauna, for the above list speaks to this being a rich one, and, besides, 

 it would be unreasonable to suppose that a group of islands clothed, as the 

 Nicobars are, almost to the water's edge, with a rich and fairly varied 

 tropical vegetation only supported some 70 species, or little more than one 



