220 RHOPALOCERA MALAYAN A. 



Exp. wings, 24 millim. 



Hab.— Ceylon (coll. Moore).— Malay Peninsula ; Malacca (coll. Moore).— Singapore (Kerr— coll. Dist.). 



There is a slight variation in this species in the exact correspondence or fracture of the 

 narrow greyish fascia) on the under surface of the wings, and it may be as well to state, once 

 for all, that the systematist who expects to find rigidity of pattern in the Lyamiclte — where 

 such narrow and divergently arranged fasciae exist — will be disappointed. In this genus, and 

 in several following genera, where a somewhat similarity of pattern prevails, such variability in 

 the markings of the species will be found, wliilst sometimes a slight alteration of the ground 

 colour from greyish-brown to brownish-grey gives one an impression of dealing with seasonal 

 variation in that respect. 



1. Nacaduba aluta. (Tab. XX., fig. 14 <y and 13 2 .) 



Luimh aluta, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 349, t. 32, f. 8. 



Lnmpides aluta, Butl. Trans. Liun. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 547, u. 4 (1877). 



Xacadtiha aluta, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. si. p. 417, n. 58 (1883). 



Of this species I have figured a male and female specimen collected by Ca,pt. Pinwill in 

 Malacca, and now contained in the British Museum. I have since received a female example, 

 but of the male can only give the description of Mr. Druce : — 



Male. "Upperside dark lavender-blue; outer margins brown." 



" Underside pale brown, both wings crossed by nine broken white lines; an orange spot at the anal 

 angle, with a black centre." 



Female. Wings above fuscous-brown ; anterior wings with a discal patch of bluish scales, the outer 

 margin darker ; posterior wings with the posterior margin darker and inwardly margined with greyish, 

 before which are a marginal row of dark spots placed between the uervules ; fringe brownish ochraceous. 

 Wings beneath somewhat bright ochraceous, with the markings as in the other sex, but with the marginal 

 row of dark spots to the upper surface of the posterior wings distinct beneath ; the black spot near the anal 

 angle with a few scattered greenish scales. 



Exp. wings, ? 20 millim. 



H.ui.— Malay Peninsula; Sungei Ujong (Durnford— coh. Dist.); Malacca (Pinwill— Brit. Mus.).— 

 Borneo (Lowe— coll. Godm. & Salv.).— Philippine Islands; Mindanao (Challenger Exped. — Brit. Mus.). 



The foUowing two species appertain to the genus, but at present are not properly 

 identified : — 



5. Nacaduba almora ? (Tab. XX., fig. 22.) 



Cupido almora, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 349, n. 14, t. 32, f. 7. 



Lampides almora/ Butl. Trans. Liim. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 547, n. 5 (1877). 



This species was doubtfully inserted by Mr. Butler, in his paper on the Butterflies of 

 Malacca, on the strength of a male specimen collected by Capt. Pinwill. The figure here given 

 is taken from that specimen, and only partially agrees with Mr. Druce's figure of the Bornean 

 type, as will be understood by the original description here given :— 



