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741. Nacaduba bhutea (PL XX, fig. 147), de N., J. A. S. B. 1883, 



p. 72, pi. 1, fig. 13 rf ; Ehoes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 387 ; de N. 

 Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 152. 



S . Upperside : dull opaque purplish-brown. Fore and hind 

 wings : slender dark anticiliary lines, otherwise uniform. Under- 

 side : ground-colour similar but very much paler. Pore wing : 

 transverse pale-edged fasciae of a shade darker than the ground- 

 colour as follows : one across middle of cell from costa to 

 median vein, another from costa over the discocellulars to lower 

 apex of cell, a discal curved fascia from costa to vein 3, a spot 

 below it shifted inwards ; a transverse subterminal series of 

 broad lunules of the same shade followed by a line of spots and 

 an anticiliary slender line. Hind wing : a subbasal band, a short 

 band along the discocellulars and a highly irregular somewhat 

 contorted discal band, all similar in colour to those on the fore 

 wing ; terminal markings as on th*e fore wing, but the lunules of 

 the subterminal series inwardly somewhat hastate, the row of spots 

 beyond them each inwardly conical ; a prominent black subterminal 

 spot in interspace 2, inwardly ochraceous, outwardly speckled 

 with metallic blue scales. Antenna, head, thorax and abdomen 

 dull purplish brown ; beneath : thorax somewhat grizzled. 

 5 . Unknown. 



Exp. ^ 32 mm. fl-28"). 



Hob. Sikhim. 



742. Nacaduba dana, de N. (Nacaduba ?), J. A. S. B. 1883, p. 73, pi. 1, 



fig. 15 c? ; id. Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 155. 



c? . Upperside : from pale violet to dark bluish-purple. Fore 

 and hind wings : comparatively broad, anticiliary brown lines 

 widened slightly at apex of fore wing. Hind wing : in addition 

 costal and dorsal margins narrowly paler and duller in colour ; 

 termen not furnished with a tail at apex of vein 2. Underside : 

 dull hair-brown to ochraceous brown. Fore wing : two pairs of 

 short, slender, transverse white strigae, the inner pair from costa to 

 median vein across middle of cell, the outer pair from costa along 

 each side of the discocellulars stopping short at lower apex of cell ; 

 a transverse, discal, bisinuate, catenulated narrow band formed of 

 a double series of slender white lunules followed by an inner and 

 outer subterminal series of transversely elongate spots enclosed 

 in or bordered on the inner and outer sides by obscure slender 

 whitish lunules ; lastly, a dark brown anticiliary line. Hind wing : 

 crossed by the following slender white lunular lines : two subbasal, 

 two short lines near apex of cell, one on each side of the disco- 

 cellulars, and two highly irregular, sinuous and broken on the disc ; 

 these are followed by some obscure lunular subterminal markings 

 of dull white lines, in interspaces 1 and 2 by subterminal black 

 spots, and a dark brown anticiliary line. Antennae, head and 

 abdomen dark brown, the shafts of the antennae ringed with white ; 

 thorax bluish purple ; beneath : the palpi and thorax with mixed 



