148 LYC-ENIDA. NACADUBA. 
band of spots somewhat broken and directed inwards at the fifth spot from the costa, a 
submarginat band of lunules, marginal linear spots and black anteciliary fine line. Avndwing 
with a basal chain of spots, another closing the cell, and a discal much curved and broken 
band ; marginal markings as on the forewing, but with a prominent subanal black spot between 
the first and second median nervules, crowned with an orange lunule, and marked outwardly 
with a few metallic-green scales ; two minute similar spots at the anal angle.” 
** Mr. de Roepstorff has sent a single specimen which seems to be identical with Felder’s 
L.[=WN.] nora. It is allied to MW. ardates, Moore, but differs in the discal chain of spots 
on the underside of the forewing being larger and less broken, also in the’ straighter outer 
margin of that wing.” (de Wicéville, 1. c.) 
The specimen above referred to is still unique in the collection of the Indian Museum, - 
Calcutta. It agrees minutely with the description of Z. fe/der?, Murray, and I have no doubt 
that Semper was quite right in placing that species as a synonym of WV. zora. It is by no 
means unlikely that WV. wzo/a, Moore, will have to be added to the synonymy of JV. zora, as 
it is highly probable that my Andaman female of WV. xora is the opposite sex of my two 
male examples of VV. viola from the same locality ; for beyond the usual sexual differences 
observed in this genus, there is only the colour of the ground on the underside by which 
to distinguish between them, and this latter is a most variable character in some species of this 
genus, as I have pointed out under the description of WV. ardates, Moore. 
724. Nacaduba noreia, Felder. 
Lycena noreia, Felder, Verh, zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, vol. xvili, p, 282 (1868). 
Hapbirat : Ceylon. 
EXPaANsE : Not given. 
DescriPTION : * FEMALE. A geographical form of Z. [=] ora, Felder, but with 
the external margin less convex in the forewing. UPPERSIDE, doth wings brownish-fuscous. 
Forewing with the interno-basal patch subtriangular, 2zdw2ng, with the basal patch viola- 
ceous-blue, the marginal spots more obscure, the usual extra-caudal one excepted, very 
obsolete. UNDERSIDE, doth wings hoary-fuscescent, a disco-cellular spot (in the hindwing rather 
narrow), a chain-shaped fascia beyond the middle once broken, with an antico-basal fasciole 
on the forewing, not going beyond the median nervure, and a basal fascia on the hindwing 
composed of four spots and within it an anterior incomplete spot, fuscous, circled with 
whitish, filled up with the ground-colour, with somewhat fuscous marginal spots (in the hind- 
wing more triangular), the extra caudal one larger, and the minute black anal pair on the 
hindwing excepted, circled with whitish, set upon concolorows spots lunate in the forewing 
and sagittate in the hindwing, with a fuscous marginal line, and a whitish line before the 
cilia cut through by fuscous spots at the tips of the veins.” (elder, 1. e.) 
NV. noreta appears never to have been recognised since it was first described, and is not 
included by Mr. Moore in his ‘‘ Lepidoptera of Ceylon.’ It is said to have the exterior margin 
ef the forewing less convex than in JV. xora, Felder, in which case it must indeed have a 
straight outer margin ; then, on the underside of the forewing, the antico-basal fasciole is said 
not to extend beyond the median nervule ; no species of the genus known to me presents 
this’ feature, except WV. bhutea and NV. hampsonii, mihi. The type specimen is said to have 
been taken at Niuera Ellia, at about 6,000 feet, on 24th December, 1864. 
725. Nacaduba atrata, Horsfield. 
Lycena atratus, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E. I. Co., p. 78, n. 13 (1828); Macaduba atrata, Moore, Lep. 
Cey., vol. i, p. 89 (1881); id., Wood-Mason and de Nicéville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lv, pt. 2, p. 366, n. 124 
(1886) ; Lycena kuvava, Moore, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C., vol. 1, p. 22, n. 10 (1857). 
Hapitat: Java (Horsfeld), Malda, Sikkim, Assam, Bhutan, Cachar, Ootacamund, Ceylon, 
Malay Peninsula. 
EXPANSE: @,1'2to 1°53 9, 1'25 to 1°30 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: ** FEMALE. UPpperrsiDs£, dot wings shaded with violet-blue from-the base 
towaids the margin, on a brownish ground transmitting a white patch on the disc. Sorewing 
