1880.] 



Lepidoptera from ilie Andaman Islands, Sfc. 



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1. Hestia Cadelli, n. sp., PI. XIII, Fig. 1, $ , 



$ . Allied to Hestia agamarschana, Felder. Wings above pure 

 subpellucid white clouded, especially on the outer halves, with minute black 

 scales, and marked and veined with intense black ; all the markings larger, 

 more or less coalescent, and blurred or ^^aler at the margins, the veins 

 more broadly black-bordered, and the marginal spots completely run 

 together so that the wings are all, especially the posterior ones, distinctly 

 bordered externally with black. 



Anterior wings relatively narrower and longer, being more than twice as 

 long as broad, with the diseoidal cell equal in length to the submedian vein, 

 that is to say, to the inner margin, and all but as long as the outer margin 

 measured in a straight line from the extremity of the submedian vein to that 

 of the subcostal ; with the anterior discal spots more elongated and more 

 completely coalesced, the spot between the first and second median veinlets 

 alone constantl}^ free, and tlie large rounded one internal to it in the same 

 cell coalescent with the enlarged extremity of the cellular mark (wliich fills 

 tlie cell nearly to the level of the origin of the second median veinlet, and 

 is divided at the base of the wing by three indistinct longitudinal clouded 

 white streaks), and the large mark in front of the submedian vein larger, 

 triangular, and united by a black streak to the discal black spot beyond it. 



Posterior wings shorter and broader, with the outer margin more 

 broadly rounded off, the cell and the interspaces beyond it broader, the 

 spot in it larger, and all those around it free, though exhibiting a tendency 

 to coalesce with the black margins of the veinlets. 



Wings below dirty-white of a dull opalescent tinge, with fuscous- 

 black markings and veins. 



Length of fore-wing 2-45 j extreme length of diseoidal cell, 1-38 ; 

 expanse 5 inches. 



Hab. Port Blair, S. Andaman. 



We have much pleasure in naming this species after Colonel Cadell, 

 Chief Commissioner of the Andamans and Nicobars, who obtained it, and 

 who has shown himself no less ready than his predecessors to help those 

 who are engaged in working out the interesting fauna of the islands under 

 his charge. 



Ohs. The specimens of Hestia which Hewitson, in his li.st of Butter- 

 flies from the Andamans (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, vol xiv, 1874, 

 p. 35G), considers to be specimens of IL. agamarscluma remarkable for 

 their dark colour, doubtless belong here, 



2. Daktais melanoleuca. 



Dnnnis mchinolcnca, Moore, Proc. Zool Soc. LonJ. 1877, p. 581, pi. Iviii, fig. 3. 

 Numerous S2)ecimens of both sexes {A. de Buejjsturlf and Mali Bam). 



