232 J- Wood-Mason and Lionel de Niceville— List of [No. 3, 



Anterior wings with the costal margin narrowly, the apex broadly, 

 and the external margin decreasingly fuscous, and with a small obscure 

 patch of fuscous scales near the inner angle. 



Posterior wings with a thin discal striga somewhat discontinuous 

 and nearly straight anteriorly but zigzaged posteriorly, seven rather large 

 rounded spots, and a short streak between the median and discoidal veins 

 in the same line as the spots, black, and beyond the spots three regularly 

 engrailed fuscous strigae, one of which is marginal and the innermost of 

 which is the darkest and is connected with the discal thin striga by the 

 dark brown margins of the veins, with the usual white blotch between the 

 anterior black spot and the discal striga, with the dusky fulvous interval 

 between the two outermost marginal fuscous strigae continued for a short 

 distance on to the fuscous margin of the anterior wing at the inner angle. 



Wings beneath much paler, all faintly suffused with lilac, with a 

 common opalescent discal band inwardly bounded with dusky, scarcely 

 perceptible in the anterior ones but prominent in the posterior, in which 

 it is nearly straight externally but dentate internally. 



Posterior wings with five of the black spots of the upperside (two 

 interspaces being devoid of a spot) smaller than above, seated, the foremost 

 one wholly, the second and last (which is twinned) partially, upon a dusky 

 ground, the remaining ones upon fulvous of a brighter shade than the rest 

 of the wing ; beyond the spots with two opalescent lunular bands, the first 

 the broader and internally margined with diffused dusky and the second 

 the narrower and sharply defined, both of which bands are continued 

 faintly and diffusedly on to the anterior wings ; and with the usual basal 

 and discocellular pale fuscous marks. 



Length of anterior wing 1*2 ; whence expanse = 2*5 inches. 



A single specimen from Great Nicobar. 



Apparently most nearly allied to G. malaya, Felder, from the Malay 

 Peninsula. 



16. Messaeas eeymanthis, var. nikobaeica. 



M. erymanthis, var. nikobarica, Felder, Verh. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, 1862, 

 vol. xii, p. 486. 



Great Nicobar (Felder), one male from Kamorta (Col. Gadell). 



17. Atella alcippe. 

 One very small male from Katschall Island. 



18. Pteameis caedui. 



Papilio cardtu, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 1767, 1, 2, p. 774. 



One male from Kamorta (Col. Gadell), 



