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Mr. Moore makes no mention, either in his original description of this species, or in his 
* Lepidoptera ef Ceylon,” of either of the characters which separate this species from all others 
of the genus known to me, except JV. xora, Felder, vzz., the very acute apex and straight outer 
margin ef the ferewing, and the posteriorly attenuated hindwing, with the euter margin very 
straight. Mr. Distant’s figures do net show these characteristics at all, and I am inclined to 
doubt that he has described and portrayed the true WV. viola. Mr. Moore’s description also 
appears to be incerrect. He says that “the two inner and outer bands on the forewing on 
the underside are short.” In all the specimens I have seen, several of which have been 
identified by Mr. Moore, only the middle pair of bands on either side of the disco-cellular 
nervules are short, the other two pairs extending nearly across the wing. I have net seen 
a female. 
JV. viola isa rare species. The Indian Museum, Calcutta, possesses four males taken 
during the cold season by Dr. J. Anderson in the Mergui Archipelago, and Mr. Wood-Mason 
obtaineda single specimen in Cachar. I possess seven specimens only, one from Sibsagar 
taken by Mr. S. E. Peal, one frem Jorehat taken by Mr. J. L. Sherwill, one from Ceylon taken 
by Mr. Fairlie, two from the Andaman Isles taken by Mr. R. Wimberley, and Mr. W. Davisen 
has sent me two males taken by him at Singapore. The Mergui specimens were described 
as below as a distinct species.* 
The figure shews both sides of a male example from Cachar in the collection of the Indian 
Museum, Calcutta. 
723. Nacaduba nora, Felder. 
Lycera nora, Felder, Sitz, Ak. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Nat. Cl., vol. xl, p. 458, n. 37 (1860) ; idem, id., Reise 
Novara, Lep., vol. ii, p. 275, n. 341, pl. xxxiv, fig. 34, #eale (1865); id., Herrich-Schaffer, Stett. Ent. Zeit., 
vol. xxx, p. 72, n. 24 (1869) ; Lawpides nora, Semper, Journ. des Mus. Godef., vol, xiv, p. 157, n. 59 (1879) ; 
Nacaduba nora, de Nicéville, Journ, A. S. B., vol. lii, pt. 2, p. 73, n. 11, pl.i, fig. 14, female (1883); Lycena 
Zelderi, Murray, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1874, p. 527, pl. x, figs. 4, male; 6, female. 
HaBiraT: South Andaman Isles (de MWicéville), Amboina (elder), Australia (Herrich- 
Schiffer, Murray and Semper). 
EXPANSE: ¢@, 2, 1'0O inch. 
DESCRIPTION: “MALE. UPPERSIDE, loth wings leaden-violaceous, with a line before 
the cilia and the apices of the nervules blackish-fuscous. UNDERSIDE, doth wings pale hoary- 
brownish, the anteciliary line as on the upperside, with submarginal lunules more palely 
bordered on both sides, outwardly circled with ochraceous powdering, and fuscous contiguous 
submarginal spots outwardly circled with whitish, a subbasal fascia, a disco-cellular fasciole, 
and a fascia contiguous to it at the second median nervule, here, and also in the hindwing, 
broken at the second subcostal nervule, all chain-shaped, yellowish, laterally margined with 
fuscous and whitish. Méndwing with a hinder spet inwardly with an encircling yellowish 
lunule, outwardly cut through with a slender metallic arch, and a pair of minute anal spots, 
black, inwardly bordered with metallic and yellowish.” 
“Smaller than the preceding [WV. derod, F elder, from Luzon], also differing in the longer 
forewing and the shorter interior margin of the hindwing.” (Fédder, 1. c. in Reise Novara.) 
FEMALE. “ UPPERSIDE, doth wings smoky deep purple. Hendwing with a marginal 
series of increasing whitish lunules, the one between the first and second median nervules 
enclosing a prominent black spot, the anal one two much smaller spots. UNDERSIDE, doth 
wings bright castaneous brown. Forewing with a catenulated band across the middle of the 
cell from the subcostal nervure to the inner margin, a similar band closing the cell, a discal 
je ee ee eee 
* Lycenesthes merguiana, Moore, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lili, pt. 2, p. 23 (1884). Habitat: Mergui. 
Expanse: Male, ‘9 of aninch. Descriprion: “ Mae. Uppersibe, 60th wings violet-blue. Hindwing with 
two indistinct small anal blackish spots and a larger subanal spot. UNDERSIDE, doth wings dull greyish-brown. 
Forewing with a transverse antemedial pale-bordered band, a short band at the end of the cell, and a broken discal 
band, two submarginal pale lunular lines. H/imdwing with a pale-bordered subbasal band, one at the end of the 
cell, and a broken curved discal band ; two submarginal pale sinuous lines enclosing a small anal and a large oval 
subanal black spot, both surmounted by a yellow Junule and speckled with a few metallic-blue scales. ; 
‘©A much smaller species than Z. dengalensis, Moore [=ZL. entolus, Godart). Distinguished from it, or 
the underside, in the forewing having the antemedial pale-bordered band, and in the hindwing in the more 
wregular and zigzag pale bands, and the large subaual spot, It is also distinct from LZ. ¢dycwentxa, Felder, 
(Moore, |. c.) 
