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Felder, extend below the median vein. In the tailless form of 

 N. ardates, on the contrary, these inner white strigse extend well 

 below the median vein just as they do in the tailed form. 1 

 have been unable to identify A 7 , noreia, Felder, and therefore 

 quote the original description as translated by de Niceville. 



747. Nacaduba noreia, Felder (Lycama), Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien r 



xviii, 1868, p. 282 ; de N. Butt. 2nd. iii, 1890, p. 148. 



" <5 $ . A geographical form of L. (=N.) nora, Felder, but with 

 the external margin less convex in the fore wing. Upperside : 

 both wings brownish fuscous. Fore wing with the interno-basal 

 patch subtriangular. Hind wing with the basal patch violaceous 

 blue, the marginal spots more obscure, the usual extra-caudal one 

 excepted, very obsolete. Underside : both wings hoary fuscescent ; 

 a discocellular spot (in the hind wing rather narrow), a chain-shaped 

 fascia beyond the middle once broken with an antico-basal fascicle, 

 on the fore wing not going beyond the median nervure, and a basal 

 fascia on the bind wing 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 hind wing excepted, circled with 

 whitish, set upon concolorous spots, lunate in the fore wing and 

 sagittate in the hind wing, with a fuscous marginal line and a 

 whitish line before the cilia cut through by fuscous spots at the 

 tips of the veins." (Felder.) 



Exp. Not given. 



Sab. Ceylon. 



" Said to have been taken at Newarra Ellia at about 6000 ft. on 

 the 24th December, 1864." (de Niceville.) 



748. Nacaduba ccelestis, de N., J. A. S. B. 1886, p. 366, pi. 17, fig. 11 ; 



de N. Butt. 2nd. iii, p. 151, pi. 27, fig. 184 rf . 



c? . Upperside : shining bluish with a purple flush in certain 

 lights. Fore and hind wings: termen narrowly edged with fuscous 

 black on which the jet-black anticiliary line on each wing is 

 obscurely visible, the edging of fuscous black slightly widened 

 anteriorly. Underside : dusky brown. Fore wing : a transverse, 

 subbasal, broad, dark, brownish-black, white-margined band from 

 the subcostal to vein 1, a similar band along the discocellulars also 

 extended to vein 1, an upper discal similar band from costa, curved 

 a little outwards and stopping short at vein 3, followed by a 

 postdiscal transverse series of dark spots which on the inner side 

 are comparatively broadly, on the outer side very slenderly edged 

 with white ; succeeding which is a subterminal extremely slender 

 series of transversely linear spots, a white line and a jet-black 

 anticiliary line ; cilia brown. Hind wins; : three transversely 



