388 LYCJENID.E. 



$ . So far as I know not yet discriminated. 

 Exp. <$ 28 mm. (I'll"). 



Hob. Recorded, so far as I know, from Mussoorie and the Nilgiri 

 Hills only. 



744. Nacaduba atrata, Hors field (Lycfena), Cat. Lep. Mtts. E. I. C. 



1828, p. 78; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 89 ; de N. Butt. 2nd. 

 iii, 1890, p. 148 ; Davidson, Bell 8f Aitken, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Sot: 

 x, 1896, p. 376, pi. 4, tigs. 2, 2 a, larva & pupa. 



Lycsena kurava, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. 1. C. i, 1857, p. 22. 



Lampides proininens, Moore, A. M. N. H. (4) xx, 1877, p. 341 ; id. 

 (Nacaduba) Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 88, pi. 37, tigs. 3, 3 -3 c, c? $, 

 larva & pupa ; de N. (Nacaduba) Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 149. 



d . Upperside : pale dull violet with in certain lights a frosted 

 silvery sheen ; bases of wings suffused slightly with blue. Fore 

 wing : a slender anticiliary dark brown line. Hind wing : costa 

 broadly paler ; dorsuin brownish ; in most specimens the sub- 

 terminal spots in interspaces 1 and 2 show through by transparency 

 from the underside, in a few these spots are marked by actual 

 scaling ; an auticiliary dark brown line as in the fore wing. 

 Underside : brown. Fore wing : transversely traversed by three 

 pairs of white strigae, the innermost pair slightly curved, from 

 subcostal vein to vein 1 across the middle of the cell ; the inner 

 striga of the medial pair complete, crosses 

 on the inner side of the discocellulars from 

 subcostal vein to vein 1, the outer striga 

 beyond the discocellulars from vein 7 to 

 vein 1, interrupted in interspace 5 ; the 

 outer pair of strigae are discal and cross 

 from vein 7 to vein 3, the inner striga of 

 Fig. 86 the pair impinging at vein 3 on the outer 



Nacaduba atrata, $ . striga of the medial pair ; these are followed 

 by an inner and an outer subterminal 



slender lunular line, a terminal series of slender transversely 

 linear spots edged outwardly by a very slender white, and an 

 anticiliary dark brown line. Hind wing : crossed by six or seven 

 irregular, more or less broken, sublunular, white strigae ; terminal 

 markings similar to those on the fore wing ; interspace 1 with a 

 minute, interspace 2 with a much larger round jet-black spot, 

 both spots crowned inwardly with ochraceous orange and touched 

 outwardly with glittering metallic blue scales. Antennae black, 

 the shafts obscurely speckled with white on the sides ; head, 

 thorax and abdomen purplish brown ; beneath : the palpi fringed 

 with black hairs, the thorax bluish white, abdomen white. 

 $ , Ufpcnide, fore wing : costa above the cell, apex very broadly 

 and a terminal edging that occupies about one-third of the length 

 of the wing jet-black, this colour on the costa widened outwards ; 

 the remainder of the wing white shaded with dusky greyish \\hich 

 in certain lights has a beautiful metallic blue iridescence ; on the 

 inner side of the terminal edging is a transverse, very ill-defined, 



