396 LYC^ENIDJE. 



irregular and discal, followed by double series of while lunules ; a 

 white anticiliary line and subterminal row of dark spots as on the 

 fore wing ; subterminal black spots, broadly margined on the inner 

 side with ochraceous orange in interspaces 1 and 2 ; tail black tipped 

 with white. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dusky brown, 

 the shafts of the antennae speckled with white; thorax and abdomen 

 suffused with blue ; beneath : palpi, thorax and abdomen white. 

 $ . Upperside : fuscous black. Fore wing : posterior two-thirds 

 pinkish brown shot with iridescent blue ; a jet-black anticiliary 

 line; cilia dark brown. Hind wing: basal three-fourths shot 

 with a duller paler blue than on the fore wing ; very obscure 

 postdiscal series of slender pale lunules, followed by the dark 

 ground-colour and beyond it by a subterminal series of slender 

 lunules, those in the interspaces 1 and 2 ochraceous orange, the 

 others white ; a series of jet-black spots, a slender terminal white 

 line and a conspicuous jet-black auticiliary line ; cilia white 

 alternated with dark brown at the apices of the veins. Underside: 

 similar to that of the d 1 , but the ground-colour paler, the markings, 

 especially the terminal markings, more clearly defined. Antennae, 

 head, thorax and abdomen as in the J . 



Exp. rf $ 30-32 mm. (1-18 -1-27"). 



Hab. The hills of Assam, Burma, and Tenasserim ; the 

 Nicobars. 



The termen of the hind wing in the J is less convex than in 

 other forms of Nacaduba except perhaps in N. Jiennus, Felder. The 

 insect, as Mr. Doherty remarks, " looks very like a Catochrysops" 



Genus LAMPIDES. 



Lampides, Hiibner, Verz. bek. ScJimett. 1816, p. 70 ; Moore, Lep. 



Ceyl. \, 1881, p. 94 ; dc N. Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 159. 

 Jamides, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. 1816, p. 71 : Moore, Lep. Cei/L 



i, 1881, p. 86; de N. Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 156. 



Type, L. celeno, Cramer, from India. 



Range. Indo-Malayan Kegion. 



(5 $ . Tore wing : costa widely arched ; apex acute but not 

 produced ; termen slightly convex, nearly straight ; tornus bluntly 

 angular ; dorsum straight, long, about four-fifths the length of the 

 costa ; cell about half length of wing ; vein 7 from before apex of 

 cell, upper discocellular therefore in line with and forming part of 

 subcostal vein ; middle and lower discocellulars subequal, middle 

 straight, lower slightly concave ; vein 3 from before lower apex of 

 cell ; vein 8 absent, vein 9 from middle of 7 ; veins 10 and 11 free, 

 from apical half of subcostal; vein 12 terminates on costa not 

 opposite to but well before apex of cell ; the latter two veins bent 

 inwards towards each other close to base of 11 and joined by a 

 short bar. Hind wing: costa slightly curved; apex rounded; 



