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arranged dark brownish-black spots ; transverse similarly coloured 

 subbasal and discal bands, both bands inwardly and outwardly edged 

 with slender white lines and the discal band greatly and irregularly 

 widened in the middle, where superposed on the dark background 

 is a snow-white transverse spot ; beyond these are a postdiscal 

 series of comparatively broad white lunules, a subterminal very 

 slender white lunular line, a terminal white thread and a jet-black 

 slender anticiliary line ; cilia shining silky brown ; tail brown 

 tipped with white. Antennae black, the shafts obscurely speckled 

 with white ; head black ; thorax and abdomen bluish ; beneath : 

 palpi with blackish fringe, thorax and abdomen whitish. 



The female has still to be discovered. 



Kvp. <3 27-30 mm. (1-10-1-18"). 



Hab. Himalayas : from Kumaon to Sikhim, 2000 to 4000 feet ; 

 Assam ; Upper Burma ; South An damans. 



740. Nacaduba hermus, I<W<7e/- (Lycaeiia), Sitzttngsber. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 



xl, 1860, p. 457. 



Lanipides viola, Moore, A. M. N. H. (4) xx, 1877, p. 340; id. 

 (Nacaduba) Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 89, pi. 38, tigs. 1, la, 16, d $; 

 Distant (Nacaduba), Rhop. Malay. 1884, p. 219, woodcut, pi. 20, 

 fig. 24 rf ; de N. (Xacaduba) Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 146, pi. 27, 

 fig. 113d. 

 Lycsenesthes merguiana, Moore, J. A. S. B. 1884, p. 23. 



c? . Upperside : dark purplish-brown. Fore and hind wings : 

 slender black anticiliary lines ; hind wing in addition with two 

 black subequal subterminal spots, one in interspace 1, the other 

 in interspace 2, both these spots edged outwardly by a silvery 

 white thread ; tail black tipped with white. Underside : hoary 

 brown. Fore wing : transverse bands of the ground-colour de- 

 fined by very slender, short, white lunular lines as follows : a band 

 across middle of cell extended from the subcostal vein to vein 1, 

 a short band defining and enclosing the discocellulars and a 

 bisinuate discal band extended from veins 1 to 7 ; succeeding these 

 are an inner and an outer subterminal series of transversely 

 elongate spots somewhat darker than the ground-colour and a 

 slender black anticiliary line ; each row of the subterminal series of 

 spots is obscurely bordered inwardly and outwardly with whitish. 

 Hind wing: transverse bands of the ground-colour enclosed and 

 defined as on the fore wing by short slender lunular lines of white as 

 follows : a subbasal band across cell, another at apex of cell extended 

 from vein 8 to vein 1, thence abruptly contorted upward and ter- 

 minating on the dorsal margin ; a discal band very irregular and 

 sinuate from vein 8 to vein 1, thence bent upwards to dorsum ; beyond 

 these an inner and an outer subterminal series of white lunules, 

 the inner series obscure, of the outer series the lunules in interspaces 

 1, 2, and 3 very prominent; interspace 1 with two minute geminate 

 black subterminal spots, interspace 2 with one large round black 



