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second have a white pupil (which in the latter is eccentric) irrorated at 

 the edges with light metallic greenish -blue scales, and the rest have the 

 pupil almond-shaped with some mauve-coloured irrorations on and around 

 its inner end. 



?. Wings above much lighter, with a submarginal whitey-brown 

 common band which passes straight across both wings from near the anal 

 angle of the posterior one to the second branch of the discoided vein of 

 the anterior, at which point it turns sharply off at a right angle to the 

 costal margin ; with the light intervals between the striations of the under- 

 side visible as light bars on the anterior margin, and the apical dark portion 

 lighter than the basal, of the anterior wing ; and with two infuscations 

 (less perceptible in the darker male) on the posterior wing corresponding 

 to the fifth and sixth ocelli of the underside. 



Wings below lighter, with the anastomozing chestnut strise less confluent 

 permitting more of the ground-colour to be seen ; and with the anterior 

 ocellus larger and much diffused circumferentially, the second with the 

 pupil rudimentary, and the third larger than the fourth. 



Length of anterior wing $ 1-3, ? 1*4 ; whence expanse = g 2'7, 

 $ 2*9 inches. 



One male from Kar Nicobar and one female from Pulo Kondul. 



Closely allied to E. dusara (pantJiera, Fabr.), Horsfield, Cat. Lep. 

 E. I. Co., 1829, pi. v, figs. 7, 7a, 9 (no description), from which it would 

 appear to differ in having the light band of the anterior wing distinctly 

 angulated and the costal margin of the same barred with lighter, in its more 

 highly developed and unequal ocelli, in the more abrupt definition of the 

 basal chestnut from the rest of the underside, and apparently also in its 

 more strongly lobed wing-margins and finer tails. 



It in all probability mimics JSuploea camorta, a species which abounds 

 on all the islands of the Nicobar group. 



Subfamily Nymph ALi]s T iE. 

 14. Cethosia nikobarica. 



C. nikobarica, Felder, Verh. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, 1862, vol. xii, p. 484, S ; 

 id., Reise Novara, Lep., pi. 48, figs. 7, 8, $ ; Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, 

 p. 583, ? . 



Five males and five females from Nankowri Island ; one female from 

 Great Nicobar ; and two females from Pulo Kondul Island. 



This species is equally common at Port Blair, specimens from which 

 place are absolutely identical with those before us from the Nicobars. 



15. ClRRHOCHROA NICOBARICA, n. Sp. 



# . Wings above bright fulvous powdered with fuscous scales at 

 the bases, and along each side of the discocellular veinlets. 



